Jeff Mittie was right. Turns out, the Kansas State women’s basketball coach didn’t need to say anything about the reports that mentioned him as a candidate for the open job at

Harper spent this past year working for the SEC Network as a studio analyst and color commentator, but will now be the head coach at her fifth different Division I program. Harper, 47, who won three national titles playing for Pat Summitt at Tennessee in the late 1990s,

Fairfield coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis has Big Ten experience as a Minnesota assistant under Lindsay Whalen from 2018-22. She has led the Stags to the NCAA Tournament twice (2022, 2024), and are favorites in the MAAC tournament, which begins on Wednesday.