Monday, August 11, 2014

After limbo, SCSU hoops focus forward

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina  -- “It was an interesting summer, to say the least.”

If ever a quote qualified as an “understatement,” the one just expressed recently by South Carolina State men’s basketball coach Murray Garvin more than fits the definition. Over the past five months, it’s debatable to find a Division I head coach in any sport whose job and program’s existence was in greater limbo.
After waiting into late March for a four-year contract extension, Garvin next had to endure weeks of uncertainty about the future of Bulldog men’s basketball. At one point, the prospect of discontinuing the longstanding program as a measure for school officials to deal with its ongoing financial issues was very much on the table.

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