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Murray, the son of actor Invoice Murray, replaces Earl Grant, who was fired earlier this month after the Eagles had a shedding file in 4 of his 5 seasons.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (AP) — Boston College employed UConn assistant Luke Murray on Thursday as coach of a slumping males’s basketball program that has gone 17 years with out an look within the NCAA Event.
Murray, the son of actor Invoice Murray, shall be a first-time head coach. He replaces Earl Grant, who was fired earlier this month after the Eagles had a shedding file in 4 of his 5 seasons. Grant went 72-92 general and 30-67 in Atlantic Coast Convention video games.
In 5 years with UConn below coach Dan Hurley, Murray has been part of two nationwide championship groups, with Invoice Murray typically in attendance at video games. The Huskies play Michigan State on Friday within the Candy 16.
“In Luke Murray, we’ve got discovered a frontrunner who doesn’t simply perceive the trendy panorama of school basketball, he has helped outline it,” Boston School athletic director Blake James mentioned. “His function in constructing a nationwide championship caliber program, his subtle offensive imaginative and prescient, and his relentless pursuit of excellence make him the proper match.”
Previous to UConn, Murray spent three years every as an assistant at Louisville and Xavier. He additionally had stints on staffs at Towson, Wagner, Arizona, Submit and Quinnipiac. The 2007 graduate of Fairfield would be the 14th head coach in Boston School program historical past.
The Eagles have been buried within the supersized ACC for greater than a decade, with a Tenth-place end in 2022-23 their highest because the league expanded from 12 to fifteen groups within the 2013-14 season. They had been second-to-last within the newly expanded 18-team convention in every of the final two years.
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