Interim Bobby Washington named head basketball coach at Grambling State‎

Almost seven months after taking over as interim, Bobby Washington has been named the 10th head men’s basketball coach at Grambling State. “I am very excited for this opportunity to serve as the head coach at Grambling," Washington said. "My goal is to build a good team by laying a strong foundation. We are looking for good recruits. Our early returns are looking good, but the late returns must be good, also. I am very humbled by this experience, but now it’s time to get to work.”

In his inaugural campaign Washington returned Grambling to the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament for the first time in two years where the Tigers pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament defeating regular season-champion and tournament favorite Jackson State in the opening round

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New men's hoops coach Rick Duckett settles in at GSU

Rick Duckett has found his place in Grambling's Assembly Center. Now he wants to fill the rest of the seats. Named the new Grambling men's basketball coach in May, Duckett arrived on campus last week to revive a program in a slump.

Grambling has not won a Southwestern Athletic Conference championship since the 1988-89 season. After the men's team finished the 2007-08 season with a dispiriting 7-19 record in the SWAC — losing 12 of its first 13 games — Grambling released ninth-year head coach Larry Wright on April 1. Duckett acknowledged he'll have to get players and fans to buy into a new system to turn the program around.

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