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OU basketball: Contracts approved for new assistant coaches

The contract for new Oklahoma assistant men's basketball coach Jim Molinari was approved Friday morning by the Board of Regents.

Molinari will be paid $245,000 annually through the 2020 season. Molinari was hired as OU's third assistant on April 25. He replaced Kevin Kruger, who left for UNLV.

Molinari, a college teammate of Lon Kruger's at Kansas State, spent the last five seasons as a Nebraska assistant. He's held head coaching jobs at Northern Illinois, Bradley and Western Illinois.

The regents also approved the contracts for new assistant women's basketball coaches Coquese Washington and Jackie Stiles.