South Carolina’s Dawn Staley has offered up praise for her assistant Winston Gandy, who has been confirmed as Grand Canyon University’s next head coach.
While the Gamecocks , the defending national champions , continue to prepare for their Sweet 16 match-up against Maryland following their 64-53 win over Indiana in the second round of March Madness , they will do so in the knowledge that come the end of the season, Gandy will be moving on.
Having worked as Maryland’s director of recruiting for a year between 2013 and 2014, Gandy was in charge of player development with the NBA’s Washington Wizards for three years following his stint with the former school. He went on to coach Rice as their associate head coach between 2017 to 2020 before taking up a job at Duke in the same role between 2020 and 2023…