Bayno leaves Trailblazers for Loyola Marymont
LOS ANGELES -- Former UNLV basketball coach Bill Bayno took over the Loyola Marymount program Friday, leaving his position as an assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Bayno, 46, will be introduced Wednesday at a news conference on campus as the successor to Rodney Tention, who resigned March 12 after guiding the Lions to a 30-61 record over three seasons. Loyola went 5-26 last season, including a 2-12 mark in the West Coast Conference.
Bayno guided UNLV to a 95-65 record and two NCAA tournament appearances as the Rebels' coach from 1995-2000. He was fired during the 2000-2001 season after allegations that he had broken rules in the recruiting of Lamar Odom in 1996 and 1997, but the NCAA cleared him of wrongdoing. He later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit and received a settlement from UNLV.
Before coaching at UNLV, Bayno spent seven years as an assistant on John Calipari's staff at Massachusetts.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
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