MINERAL AREA COLLEGE

The Mineral Area College Board of Trustees on June 11 approved the hiring of Luke Strege to the coaching position of the men’s basketball program. Strege will be the fourth coach in the history of the program. He comes to the Park Hills, Mo., community college having finished his fifth season as the assistant men’s basketball coach and recruiting coordinator at Eastern Kentucky University. While at Eastern Kentucky, Strege helped guide the Colonels to an Ohio Valley Conference Championship in 2014 and a berth to the NCAA National Tournament. Eastern Kentucky’s 49 wins from 2012-2014 are the most during any two-year period in program history. – Hoop Dirt. Read more.