Monmouth brings in former Tar Heel guard King Rice as new coach

Posted Mar 31, 2011
Former Vanderbilt assistant King Rice was officially introduced as the new coach at Monmouth, N.J., on Wednesday. Rice, a former point guard at North Carolina, helped lead the Commodores to the NCAA Tournament four times in his five seasons, and will now take over a program that went 9-21 this year. “I am going to start very quickly at trying to get Monmouth back to the top of the NEC,” Rice said. (Burlington Times News)

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