About one day after the first reports of his hiring trickled out, the Washington State Cougars make it official: Kyle Smith is their new men’s basketball coach.
In the release, WSU also confirmed The Spokesman Review’s report earlier today that Smith signed a six-year, $1.4 million per year deal with the Cougs, though additional terms of the contract have not yet been disclosed. Smith, formerly the coach of the San Francisco Dons of the West Coast Conference, is scheduled to meet the media at a press conference on Monday.
“When I think of Washington State basketball, I think of the great coaches that have been there, going back to Marv Harshman, George Raveling, Kelvin Sampson and then Tony Bennett, to name a few,” Smith said in the statement.