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 has some deep ties in Northeast Ohio. When he was working as an assistant coach at Akron, Smart met his wife, Maya. That was also when he ...

Keith Dambrot and a LeBron James graduation party in Akron showed Marquette college basketball coach Shaka Smart the ...

Marquette's Shaka Smart has a reputation as a March Madness genius thanks to his remarkable run from the First Four to the Final Four with VCU in 2011, one heck of a way to welcome the inception ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Marquette men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart, in Cleveland as the Golden ... One, I met my wife in Akron, which is nothing more meaningful than that,” Smart said.

Anthony Grant, Shaka Smart, Will Wade, Mike Rhoades and Odom ... was joined at the press conference by his family – his wife Meghan and their three children, his parents Phil and Judy, and ...

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