Shaka Smart's first NCAA Division I assistant job was at Akron for Keith Dambrot, who coached LeBron James in high school.

CLEVELAND - Marquette men's basketball coach Shaka ... Smart was suddenly thrust in the circle that included Dru Joyce III, James' prep teammate who played at Akron and is now the head coach ...

In Shaka Smart's fifth year in Austin ... Roach also hit the clinching free throws in overtime as Xavier missed three shots in the final four seconds to fall to Texas 78-76 in OT in front of ...

Golden becomes the first head coach under the age of 40 to lead a team to that stage of March Madness since Shaka Smart and Brad Stevens ... of-10 shooting from the free-throw line.

Friday | 4:35 p.m. | TBS Maryland and its "Crab Five" starting lineup are good enough to make the Terrapins' deepest NCAA Tournament run since the 2002 team that won it all. But Grand Canyon is the ...

No more Zach Edey, but Purdue's still a good team with a great head coach and an All-American ... best defenders in the nation, too. This is Shaka Smart's fourth season at Marquette and his ...

It’s time to kill some trees, print out some brackets ... matchup of the opening round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Add Shaka Smart doing defensive slides on the sideline into the equation ...

But my biggest thought in my head was do not mess this up ... at Stanford before being hired as a graduate assistant by Shaka Smart at Virginia Commonwealth. He spent five years as an assistant ...