After four years and and a 66-67 record, George Mason University has released Paul Hewitt from his contract. The Patriots finished the 2014-15 season at 9-22 and never made it to the NCAA tournament with Hewitt at the helm.
Dave Paulsen is hired as the head coach of the George Mason University basketball team. Paulsen coached the previous 7 years at Bucknell, where he totaled 134 wins in that time.
Shaka Smart is hired to lead the men's basketball team at Virginia Commonwealth University. He replaces Anthony Grant who left VCU for the University of Alabama after three seasons. In his introductory press conference Coach Smart says his teams…
Shaka Smart leaves VCU to become the head coach at the University of Texas. Coach Smart finished his 6 years at VCU with a record of 163-56 taking the team to the Final Four in 2011.
After three seasons at Rice University Mike Rhoades is hired as the next coach at VCU. Before coaching at Rice, Rhoades was an assistant under Shaka Smart at VCU for five years.
After going 95-91 over the course of six seasons, George Mason University announced it was parting ways with its men's basketball coach. In the time Paulsen was coach the team went 47-57 in A-10 Conference play and never made an appearance in the…
Kim English is named new men's basketball coach at George Mason University. For the previous three seasons he was an assistant at the University of Tennessee but had no previous head coaching experience.
After two years Kim English leaves George Mason for the same position at Providence. In his two seasons with the Patriots he went 34-29 and never took Mason to the NCAA Tournament.