Georgia Tech athletic director Todd Stansbury was to interview Buffalo women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack on Thursday evening for the school’s head-coaching vacancy, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Tech’s interest in Legette-Jack was first reported by a Buffalo, N.Y., TV station earlier Thursday.
Tech is conducting a search after Stansbury fired MaChelle Joseph, Tech’s coach for the past 16 seasons, on March 26 after an investigation found that players said she was emotionally, mentally and verbally abusive, allegations that Joseph denied. Stansbury said that Tech would conduct a national search for her replacement.
Legette-Jack was to meet also with Tech associate athletic director Joeleen Akin. The interview was believed to be in Tampa, Fla., site of the women’s Final Four.
Legette-Jack has been at Buffalo for the past seven seasons and has led the Bulls to the NCAA tournament three of the past four years, including the Sweet 16 in 2018. Buffalo became just the third MAC school to reach that round of the tournament. The first- and second-round wins were the first NCAA-tournament victories in school history. In fact, before Legette-Jack’s hire, Buffalo had been to the postseason only once previously.
She also reportedly interviewed for the opening at Penn State that later was filled by Marquette’s Carolyn Kieger.
Legette-Jack was previously head coach at Hofstra from 2002-06 and then Indiana from 2006-12.
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