{"id":235305,"date":"2026-04-17T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:39:16","slug":"wierzba-named-evansville-womens-basketball-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235305\/","title":{"rendered":"Wierzba Named Evansville Women&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVANSVILLE, Ind. &#8212; Ben Wierzba, who spent the past three seasons of the Associate Head Coach of Miami Women&#8217;s Basketball, has been named\u00a0the 12th\u00a0head coach in\u00a0Evansville Women&#8217;s Basketball program history.<\/p>\n<p>In three seasons in Oxford, Wierzba helped the RedHawks to a record of 56-39, including a 33-21 mark in MAC play. In 2024-25, Wierzba helped guide Miami to a 10-win improvement and an appearance in the WNIT. This past season, the RedHawks were one of the top mid-major teams in the country, finishing with a record of\u00a028-7 overall and a 16-2 record in the MAC. Miami captured both the regular season and tournament championship and competed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2008.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSVILLE, Ind. &#8212; Ben Wierzba, who spent the past three seasons of the Associate Head Coach of Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-235305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}