Reports: Micah Shrewsberry Leaving Penn State for Notre Dame
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Micah Shrewsberry reportedly will become the men's basketball coach at Notre Dame, leaving Penn State a week after leading the program to its first NCAA Tournament win in 23 years.
ESPN's Pete Thamel and Stadium's Jeff Goodman first reported the news Wednesday, six days after the Lions defeated Texas A&M in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Shrewsberry went 37-31 in two seasons at Penn State, which reached the Big Ten Tournament championship game and the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011. The 10th-seeded Lions defeated Texas A&M for their first NCAA Tournament win since 2001 before falling to Texas in the second round.
According to CBS Sports' Matt Norlander, Notre Dame offered Shrewsberry a seven-year deal.
In a statement Wednesday night, Penn State Athletic Director Patrick Kraft said Shrewsberry called to say he would be taking a position at "another institution."
"We thank Micah for his contributions to the PSU community and wish him the very best," Kraft said. "We are already moving forward in a search for a new head coach and will identify and appoint a tremendous coach, teacher and person, who will take us to unprecedented heights."
Shrewsberry, 46, returns to the state of Indiana, where he forged much of his basketball career. Originally from Jeffersonville, an Indiana town across the state border from Louisville, Shrewsberry played high school basketball in Indianapolis.
He continued his career at Hanover College, Indiana's oldest private college, and received his Master's degree from Indiana State. Shrewsberry has coached at six Indiana colleges or universities, spending nine seasons at Purdue and Butler. He also spent three seasons, from 2005-07, working 10 minutes from Notre Dame as the first full-time head men's basketball coach at Indiana University South Bend.
Shrewsberry guided Penn State (23-14) to its 12th 20-win season in the program's 127-year history. His teams won 17 Big Ten games in his first two seasons, the most of any Penn State coach in their first two years. Penn State's 2023 recruiting class includes Braeden Shrewsberry, the coach's son.
Shrewsberry's departure means Penn State will employ its fourth different men's basketball coach in five years. Shrewsberry joined the program in March 2021 from Purdue, where he served as associate head coach.
Prior to that, Shrewsberry spent six years as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics, bringing an appealing set of college and NBA skills to Penn State.
"Micah was a name that immediately jumped to the top of our list with his experience in the Big Ten and the NBA," former Penn State Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said in 2021. "He has had success at all levels and knows what it takes to develop a program into a consistent national contender."
Penn State Athletic Director Patrick Kraft will hire the program's next head coach. Kraft last conducted a basketball coaching search at Boston College in 2021, when he hired Earl Grant from the College of Charleston. Boston College recently gave Grant a two-year contract extension.
For Penn State, a candidate already could be on staff in associate head coach Adam Fisher. A Penn State graduate, Fisher joined Shrewsberry's staff in 2021 after spending eight years at Miami, six as an assistant coach. Fisher also worked for Jay Wright at Villanova and began his career as student manager at Penn State.
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