[A.G.]

http://www.newsobserver.com/752/story/439438.html

Ex-Coastal coach Strickland joins Lowe

Caulton Tudor, Staff Writer
Pete Strickland, a former head coach at Coastal Carolina, has joined Sidney Lowe's new basketball staff at N.C. State.

Strickland, 48, played prep ball at Hyattsville (Md.) DeMatha under Morgan Wootten, and once coached Lowe and Dereck Whittenburg during summer league ball in the Washington, D.C. area.

Strickland began work at State on Friday after a series of telephone conversations with Lowe earlier in the week.

Also on the Lowe staff will be former Herb Sendek aide Larry Harris, former Wolfpack guard Quentin Jackson and Monte Towe, the point guard on State's 1974 NCAA title team and previously the head coach at the University of New Orleans.

At Coastal Carolina in Conway, S.C., Strickland was 70-127 in seven seasons as head coach. He previously worked at Dayton, Old Dominion and Virginia Military. As a standout guard at Pitt during his college career, he played on the same teams with the high-scoring Harris.

Strickland's 13-year-old son, Conor, is a talented young prospect and will soon enroll at a school in the Raleigh area.

Strickland was coaching at Ravenscroft High School in Raleigh when his wife, Mary Catherine, gave birth to the couple's older son, Michael, now 18 and soon to join the basketball team at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. Their daughter and oldest child, Meaghan, is a sophomore at College of Charleston.

"We're thrilled to be coming back to this area," Strickland said Saturday. "I couldn't be more excited to be a part of a staff like this one. Sid's going to be a terrific leader for the program and for Wolfpack fans everywhere. I think we'll all draw on his energy and enthusiasm."

[TIMSCAR20]

I know this was an attempt to tease us about Gregg Marshall but this article has even more ties to Gregg than meets the eye! Strickland's 18 year old is going to Randolph Macon where Marshall did his undergrad work. His daughter is going to College of Charleston where Marshall learned under the great John Krese...Strickland is a good guy from my interactions with him. I wish him well. I hope NC State doesn't regret hiring Lowe though.

[A.G.]

Didn't Towe used to coach at UNC-A, too. Some serious BS flava.

[TIMSCAR20]

Yes he did. He played for NC State's national championship team from 1974 and Eddie Beidenbauch was an assistant. When Eddie took the Asheville job, Towe was one of his first hires.