Curran, Sellers among candidates for CCSU job
Steve Curran and Patrick Sellers have emerged as strong candidates to become the next men’s basketball coach at Central Connecticut, according to numerous sources.
Reached Friday, Central interim athletic director Tom Pincince would not confirm or deny any candidates. He said Central expected to conclude its first wave of interviews — there were 80-plus candidates — on Friday.
Those interviews were conducted virtually. Inperson interviews for a group of finalists, expected to be between three and five candidates, are being scheduled.
Curran, the associate head coach at St. Bonaventure, was a CCSU assistant under Howie Dickenman in
2005-10. He joined St. Bonaventure as part of Mark Schmidt’s staff in 2010 and was promoted to associate head coach in 2018.
Sellers, a Fairfield assistant under Jay Young, is a
1991 Central graduate. He was an assistant at Central
in 1999-00 and has also coached at UConn, Fairleigh Dickinson, DePaul, UMass, Creighton, and Hofstra.
Sellers and Young were finalists for the CCSU job in 2016 before Donyell Marshall was hired. Marshall was 40-104 over five seasons and his contract was not renewed.
Curran previously coached at Siena, Robert
Morris, New Hampshire and Merrimack, his alma mater (Class of 1992).
St. Bonaventure is coming off an Atlantic 10 championship and the program’s third NCAA Tournament appearance under Schmidt.
Central, a three-time Northeast Conference champion under Dickenman (2000, 2002, 2007), hasn’t had a winning season since 2010-11.