As if the Indiana men’s basketball coaching search hasn’t already gotten weird enough with an early denial of candidacy from Brad Stevens, somehow Curt Cignetti managed to get dragged into it.
Cignetti, who previously coached at James Madison, was reported by to have been pushing the athletic department to look at or hire Mark Byington of Vanderbilt, per Adam Zagoria. Byington occupied the men’s basketball coaching job at JMU while Cignetti was still the Dukes’ football coach.
Amid the Brad Stevens news &the Chris Beard chatter, one name to keep in mind at Indiana is Mark Byington
I'm told Curt Cignetti is pushing for him at Indiana & he presumably has juice now after the football season.