There is a new basketball coach on the Plains at Auburn...and his name is Tony Barbee. Barbee, the now former coach at UTEP, where he had some success, winning a Conference USA title and being named conference coach of the year this past season. He led the Miners to their first NCAA Tourney bid in a very long time.
The announcement will be coming Thursday afternoon in the building he will be asked to fill up, the $92 million Auburn Arena.
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((Tony Barbee looks happy//Courtesy: utepathletics.cstv.com))
Barbee, a former John Calipari assistant in Memphis replaces Jeff Lebo who was fired...then hired to be the coach at East Carolina. He also will be the basketball programs first black head coach. His strength is as a recruiter, something that will be needed if he is going to resurrect an Auburn basketball program that has been treated as somewhat of an afterthought in the Football crazed region.
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