Colorado State hasn’t hired a new men’s basketball coach yet and already his (or her) job just got a lot harder.
On the court, CSU was awful last year. The Rams went 11-21, finished 10th in the 11-team Mountain West and suffered some of the most lopsided losses in recent history.
It seems almost irresponsible on paper to say CSU has any star power on its roster, but it touted the Mountain Westap leading rebounder, Nico Carvacho, a redshirt sophomore who averaged 9.6 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, and a career 1,000-point scorer in junior guard Prentiss Nixon, who missed a good chunk of the season with injury. The team struggled, but there was talent.
Emphasis on “was.”
The inevitable has started. As first reported by . This isn’t a full-blown release, but Carvacho – the Rams’ most consistent player last year – wants to test the free-agent market, and he’s already drawing interest from Power 5 programs. In the wake of former coach Larry Eustachy’s resignation, this was bound to happen. And itap unlikely Carvacho will be the only significant player to see what bigger program might want to take him.
Carvacho tweeted Thursday night that CSU finally (after days of stalling) granted him permission to contact other schools, and that he had not shut the door on finishing his career with the Rams.
The hardest job any coach who replaces Eustachy was going to initially face was recruiting the current crop of players to stay (I’ll reiterate: there is talent there). But a Ram already taking the first official step toward leaving on only Day 1 of the NCAA Tournament puts more pressure for not only the next coach, but also CSU to get someone in place quickly.
CSU men’s basketball is a rebuilding job, and if Carvacho and company pack their bags to leave Fort Collins, the construction will be slower than a CDOT crew in winter.
— , The Denver Post
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- NHL:Predators at Avalanche, 7 p.m., ALT
- Cactus League:Rockies at Diamondbacks, 2:10 p.m.
- Women’s College Hoops:Northern Colorado vs. Michigan, 3 p.m.
- College Hockey:Denver vs. Minnesota Duluth, 6:30 p.m.
- College Hockey:Air Force vs. Canisius, 6 p.m.
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Scoreboard
NBA:Nuggets 120, Pistons 113
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NHL: Avalanche 4, Blues 1
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Cactus League:Angels 10, Rockies 8
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Women’s College Hoops: Wyoming 67, New Mexico State 59
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Women’s College Hoops:Colorado State 67, Western Illinois 64
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