{"id":547301,"date":"2026-03-18T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547301\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:53:08","slug":"emu-hires-clemson-assistant-billy-donlon-to-replace-stan-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547301\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU hires Clemson assistant Billy Donlon to replace Stan Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YPSILANTI, Mich. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2199\/eastern-michigan-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Michigan<\/a> hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/228\/clemson-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clemson<\/a> assistant Billy Donlon to coach its basketball team on Tuesday, a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48146646\/eastern-michigan-western-michigan-fire-coaches-same-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parting ways<\/a> with Stan Heath.<\/p>\n<p>Donlon will continue in his role a top assistant coach with the Tigers, an eighth-seeded team in the NCAA tournament with a first-round matchup against ninth-seeded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/game\/_\/gameId\/401856522\/iowa-clemson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He previously led Missouri-Kansas City and Wright State with a 155-133 record over nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Donlon, who is from Northbrook, Illinois, was also an assistant coach at Michigan, Northwestern and UNC Wilmington, where he was a standout guard in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Michigan was 10-21 overall and 4-14 in the Mid-American Conference this year, tying Western Michigan and Northern Illinois for last place. Heath, a former Eastern Michigan player and Michigan State assistant under Tom Izzo, had a 57-99 record over four seasons with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YPSILANTI, Mich. &#8212; Eastern Michigan hired Clemson assistant Billy Donlon to coach its basketball team on Tuesday, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-547301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}