NCAA Basketball | Dan Monson, Lengthy Seashore State earns NCAA bid with Huge West Event title.

For Dan Monson, it isn’t over but.

Six days after the workforce was eradicated, Monson led Lengthy Seashore State to the NCAA Event with a 74-70 win over UC Davis on Saturday within the Huge West Event title recreation, the fewest of his tenure. Extra days added.

“God has blessed me with an ideal profession, and these children have been nice to educate,” Monson mentioned after the sport. “When [Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh] He says, ‘Who is healthier than us?’ Anyone wants to inform him,’ Coach Monson [does].'”

On Monday, Lengthy Seashore State introduced it had “mutually” parted methods with Monson after 17 seasons, however the faculty agreed to let him coach the remainder of the season. After LBSU entered the Huge West Event on a five-game dropping streak, there have been few causes for Manson and his employees to consider that.

However a run by the convention event now ensures that LBSU will hear its title referred to as on Choice Sunday for Monson’s second NCAA Event look, amid surprising odds and distinctive circumstances.

Saturday’s win got here only one week after Lengthy Seashore State ended a five-game dropping streak with an 88-78 house loss towards the Aggies.

“We had an up-and-down 12 months,” Monson mentioned. “And so they got here right here and so they performed for one another.”

Coming into the Huge West Event, Lengthy Seashore State was one of many worst 3-point capturing groups in America at 31.2 p.c (309th within the nation). However Seashore mixed to make 38 p.c of his 3-point makes an attempt in three straight wins over UC Riverside, UC Irvine and UC Davis, and now Monson, who mentioned in a press release Monday that this system has “a brand new voice “Teaching will proceed.

March is at all times a tricky time for coaches within the sizzling seat. A handful of males’s and girls’s basketball coaches have not too long ago been pressured to deal with their firings in information conferences. In different conditions, a struggling coach will typically announce initially of the season — or a faculty will announce on their behalf — that the upcoming season can be that coach’s final marketing campaign.

LBSU’s transfer to announce Monson’s firing earlier than the convention event however nonetheless permit him to educate is much more odd now that Monson has really overwhelmed the chances and prolonged his season.

Regardless of LBSU’s announcement, Monson mentioned he hasn’t misplaced his ardour for teaching and is able to make his subsequent transfer.

“I do not suppose that is my final 12 months,” he mentioned. “I like teaching. I would like a brand new problem. That is life. It is on to the following chapter.”

Sure, however not but.