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Jim Molinari will be introduced as Western Illinois' next basketball coach Friday, a source has told CBSSports.com.
Molinari was previously the head coach at Bradley before he was replaced by Jim Les in 2002. Molinari is probably best known as the man who took over for Dan Monson at Minnesota during the 2006-07 season and ran the program until Tubby Smith was hired in March 2007.
Molinari was an assistant at Ball State this past season.
The other final candidate for the Western Illinois job was Ray Harper.
Harper won the NAIA Division I title this season at Oklahoma City University, then resigned to pursue Division I opportunities. Now that he has missed on the Western Illinois job, a source told CBSSports.com that Harper has agreed to join Ken McDonald's staff at Western Kentucky.
