Colorado men’s basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik has completed his staff with Charles Baker, Kansas State’s assistant coach and lead recruiter from 2000-2006. A native of Little Rock, Ark., Baker is known to have particularly strong recruiting contacts in Texas, the Southeast and among junior colleges. Baker’s top signees at K-State were forwards Jeremiah Massey and Cartier Martin, who both earned all-conference consideration. An assistant last season at Louisiana Tech, Baker in effect replaces Jeff Reynolds, who already was working with CU players before accepting an offer to succeed Bzdelik as head coach at Air Force. Baker joins former Wyoming head coach Steve McClain and former Air Force assistant Derrick Clark as CU’s full-time assistants.
Scott completes DU men’s hoops staff
New University of Denver men’s basketball coach Joe Scott named Mike McKee associate head coach, Jon Jordan and A.J. Kuhle assistant coaches and John Fitzgerald director of basketball operations.
McKee was an assistant under Scott at Air Force and spent the past two seasons as associate head coach at Richmond. Kuhle spent the previous three seasons as an assistant at his alma mater, Air Force. Jordan was out of basketball last season after being an assistant the previous five seasons at Air Force. Fitzgerald is a native of Englewood and was the director of basketball operations the past three seasons at Princeton.
Cougars lead MWC men’s golf championship
BYU shot a 12-under-par 272 to take the lead after the first round of the Mountain West Conference men’s championship at Omni Tucson National Golf Course in Tucson. The Cougars hold a three-shot lead over UNLV. Colorado State is fifth at 282, Air Force seventh at 298 and Wyoming tied for eighth at 299. UNLV sophomore Seung-su Han leads the chase for medalist honors with a 6-under 65 on the par-71, 7,136-yard Catalina Course. Tyler Goulding of Air Force and Dustin Morris of CSU are among those tied for 10th at 70.
Air Force, CSU out of MWC tennis tourney
The Air Force men’s and women’s tennis teams and the Colorado State women’s squad all were eliminated from the Mountain West Conference championships in Colorado Springs during Thursday’s quarterfinals.
