Butler hires Austin Parkinson as women’s basketball coach
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Butler employed Austin Parkinson as its new ladies’s basketball coach Friday, ending a search that lasted somewhat greater than two weeks.
Parkinson gained’t even have to depart city. The IUPUI campus is just a few miles away from Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse.
He replaces Kurt Godlevske, who was fired by director Barry Collier on March 22 after two of the worst seasons in Bulldogs historical past. Butler went 1-27 final season.
“Austin set himself aside from a robust pool of candidates along with his expertise constructing a championship-caliber program at IUPUI and his imaginative and prescient for a way Butler will obtain comparable success throughout the Massive East,” Collier mentioned.
Parkinson, a former Purdue star, left the IUPUI males’s employees in September 2010 to take over the scandal-tinged ladies’s program. Over the subsequent 12 seasons, this system went 224-141 and have become a Horizon League powerhouse.
He posted eight 20-win seasons together with a 24-5 mark final season when the Jaguars gained their second league event title in three years and made the primary NCAA Match look at school historical past.
“All the things is in place at Butler for our program to make noise within the Massive East and I’m grateful for the chance to guide the Bulldogs,” Parkinson mentioned.
IUPUI chancellor Andrew Klein mentioned a seek for Parkinson’s alternative will start instantly.
It’s the second hiring Butler has made this week. Collier named Thad Matta as the lads’s basketball coach on Sunday.
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Extra AP ladies’s school basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
