CHAMPAIGN — There will be no “getting to know you” phase for Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman and the Illini’s new women’s basketball coach. They’re already well acquainted.
Whitman is expected to officially announce the hiring of Nancy Fahey as Illinois’ ninth coach in school history later this week, sources close to the program confirmed to The News-Gazette on Tuesday.
Whitman drew the Hall of Fame coach away from Washington University of St. Louis, where she’s spent the last 31 seasons as coach and the past two years as an assistant athletic director — a promotion garnered from Whitman during his two-year stint as athletic director at the Division III school.