UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

The University of Vermont’s next women’s basketball coach was busy Tuesday –– busy pacing around his Pennsylvania home for the call he hoped would come. When the phone finally rang, with UVM’s soon-to-be athletic director Jeff Schulman on the other end, Chris Day’s pacing ceased. “I let out a big scream and went to my wife and said, ‘Do you believe this is happening?’” Day said. And on Wednesday the Vermont athletic department went public with its choice, naming the 41-year-old Day, an assistant coach at Pennsylvania, the successor to Lori McBride as the head of the Catamounts’ bench. -Alex Abrami and Austin Danforth, burlingtonfreepress.com– Read More