Women's basketball: Ohio State assistant finalist for Vermont job
Friday, May 14, 2010 2:53 AM
By Jim Massie
Ohio State assistant women's basketball coach Debbie Black is one of three finalists for the coaching job at Vermont.
"I've never been through the interview process before," Black said. "It was good for me. It was something I feel that I needed to do. It's good for my confidence."
Black has spent the past five seasons as an assistant with the Buckeyes.
She played for OSU coach Jim Foster at Saint Joseph's and also played 18 seasons professionally before coming to Ohio State.
Foster said yesterday that he would hate to lose Black but that "this wasn't the first phone call she's gotten, and it won't be her last.
"You hire people that aspire to be, at least in my thoughts, head coaches," he said. "Then through years of experience, they get more things to do and a little better understanding of what the job is. This is what should happen."
The other candidates at Vermont are Jessica Smith, coach at New Haven and a former coach at Hartley,