Sturdy stepping down as HC at Loyola Maryland

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Personnel WriterMar 8, 2024, 03:26 PM ET

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• Graduate of University of Delaware.Loyola Maryland head coach Tavaras

Hardy is stepping down after 6 seasons, the school announced Friday.The Greyhounds’ season ended on Tuesday with a loss to

Navy in the Patriot League competition, concluding a 7-25 (5-13 in the league) campaign.”Tavaras has actually been enthusiastic about the wellness and success of not just our males’s basketball student-athletes, but the entire Loyola community since he concerned our university,”athletic director Donna Woodruff stated.”We are grateful to him for his dedication to our guys’s basketball program and everyone linked to it for the last 6 years. We want Tavaras and his household all the best moving on. “Loyola stopped working to finish.500 general or in conference play in any of Hardy’s 6 seasons at the helm, although it made a go to the Patriot League national championship in 2021 before being up to Colgate. That team featured Santi Aldama, who was selected in the first round of the 2021 NBA draft, and Web cam Spencer, now a starter for UConn.Hardy, who completes his Loyola profession with a 66-110 record, was an extremely related to assistant at Georgia Tech, Georgetown and Northwestern prior to taking control of the Greyhounds.