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John Higgins retires from on-court officiating

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As incoming college freshmen start to get head to their college campuses for summer basketball workouts, there was some big news on the college basketball front on Monday.

A name that most of BBN should be familiar with is retiring from on-court officiating; John Higgins.

News broke on Monday that Higgins has been named the new Coordinator of Officials for the Western Basketball Officiating Consortium (WBOC). This means he will be in charge of the process of recruiting and developing officials, while also assigning officials for the following conferences: Big Sky, Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, Western Athletic, and West Coast.