INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Butler fired coach LaVall Jordan on Friday after two straight dropping seasons and a second consecutive end close to the underside of the Huge East Convention.
The Bulldogs have been 14-19 this season and tied for ninth within the Huge East at 6-14.
”After a radical analysis, I’ve come to the choice {that a} change within the management of our males’s basketball program is required,” athletic director Barry Collier mentioned. ”These selections are by no means simple, however are extremely tougher when it impacts a high-character Bulldog who has represented our college so properly for a few years.”
Jordan performed for the Bulldogs from 1998-2001, and Collier was his coach his first three years. Jordan was a beginning guard his final two seasons, incomes all-conference honors, and he made 4 teaching stops over a decade earlier than Collier employed him as head coach in 2017.
The Bulldogs performed within the 2018 NCAA Match and have been anticipated to make it again in 2020 earlier than the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jordan was unable to return the Bulldogs to the unprecedented heights achieved beneath Brad Stevens, who led the staff to shock appearances within the 2010 and 2011 nationwide championship video games when the varsity was within the Horizon League.
Jordan had only one profitable file in Huge East play, and the Bulldogs misplaced six of their final seven video games. Seven of their Huge East regular-season losses this season have been by 15 factors or extra, together with a 40-point highway defeat to a Villanova staff reached this weekend’s Remaining 4.
Jordan is barely the second Butler males’s basketball coach to get fired in practically a century. The opposite was Joe Sexson, who was let go in 1989.
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