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CU assistant Rodney Billups is the University of Denver’s new basketball coach

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The University of Denver has hired CU assistant coach Rodney Billups as its new head basketball coach, DU announced at a press conference Monday. He replaces Joe Scott, who was fired for a lack of postseason success.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling that I have to return back to DU,” Billups said in a release from DU. “My first priority will always be the student-athletes and their development in the classroom, on the basketball court and in the community as model citizens.