WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -Jeff Bzdelik has been announced as the new basketball coach at Wake Forest, ending a weeklong search for a replacement for Dino Gaudio.
Athletic director Ron Wellman said Wednesday that Bzdelik “first and foremost … understands Wake Forest.” The former coach at Air Force and the NBA’s Denver Nuggets left Colorado after three seasons, where he was 36-58.
The 57-year-old Bzdelik said current assistants Jeff Battle and Rusty LaRue will remain on his staff. Gaudio was fired because of what Wellman described as a pattern of late-season fades.
Bzdelik was the only known candidate for the job, arrived in Winston-Salem on Monday and spent two days on campus interviewing and touring. He called Wake Forest “my dream job.”
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