What's going on at ISU red?

[Mick Taylor]

How goes the coaching search? I know ISU blue is doing interviews this week, but I haven't heard much about the Redbirds.

[STLRedbird]

Shhhhhhhhhhh! Silence. Zenger is playing this VERY close to the vest. Given all the openings that schools are looking to fill, this may be the wisest course of action. The sports editor of the local paper explained things in his blog...

Jim Benson's ISU blog (http://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/main/?cat=26)

Zenger did not fire Moser and buy him out in order to make a marginal hire or someone that will need time to grow into the job. Hopes remain very high, even if information is more scarce than its ever been in a situation like this.

[Phantom]

Tim Jankovich, assistant at Kansas, is our new coach. It will be announced tomorrow.

[DannyCooksey]

It's KU assistant Tim Jankovich. he will be introduced tomorrow morning:



ITS OFFICIAL

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16936258.htm

By JASON KING
The Kansas City Star
LAWRENCE | Kansas assistant Tim Jankovich will be announced as the new head basketball coach at Illinois State during a press conference Tuesday in Normal, Illinois,

Jayhawks head coach Bill Self confirmed Jankovich’s hiring during an interview with The Star on Monday evening.

“Tim has worked under some of the most successful coaches in the profession,” Self said. “He loves Kansas and he loves living in this area. But this opportunity was too good for him to pass up. It’s too good of a job. He can go there and have success in a short amount of time.”

Jankovich could not be reached for comment.

Illinois State’s players were expected to be informed of the hiring this evening. Jankovich replaces Porter Moser, who was fired March 5 after compiling a 51-67 record in four seasons.

Jankovich, 47, joined Bill Self’s staff at Illinois in 2002 and then followed Self to Kansas in 2003. The Jayhawks have gone 104-28 during Jankovich’s four seasons in Lawrence and are preparing to play Southern Illinois in the Sweet 16.

The Illinois State job won’t be Jankovich’s first as a Division I head coach. He held the same position at North Texas from 1993-97 and went 53-57. Jankovich then went 50-14 in two seasons at Hutchinson Community College before leaving to join Vanderbilt’s staff in 1999. Three years later he moved on to Illinois.

Successful as he’s been as a coach, Jankovich was also a well-known player during his days at Kansas State. The Wildcats made the NCAA Tournament and were ranked in the Top 20 during each of his three years as a starter
_________________