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April 7, 2000 SportsLine.com wire reports |
DENVER, Colo. -- Joe Scott, a former assistant at Princeton, was hired
Friday as basketball coach at Air Force.
Scott, 34, takes over for Reggie Minton, who was fired after the Falcons
completed an 8-20 season. Minton, the third basketball coach since the Academy
began playing basketball in 1957, was 150-295 in 16 seasons.
Air Force athletic director Col. Randall Spetman said Scott was the right
fit for Air Force.
"He's a person of integrity who comes from a prestigious institution and a
great basketball program that deals with the same type of young men as we do at
the Academy," Spetman said in a statement.
In eight seasons as an assistant at Princeton, Scott worked under Hall of
Famer Pete Carril and his successor, Bill Carmody. Princeton was 163-61 over
that stretch.
Spetman said Minton was replaced to "infuse new energy in the program."
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