Dothan Eagle · Mar 29, 2019
HEY, COACH: Cross expects to win at Troy
New Troy basketball coach Scott Cross (middle) displays a Trojan jersey flanked by athletics director Jeremy McClain (left) and Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. on Thursday.TROY – Promising to awaken “a sleeping giant,” new Troy men’s basketball coach Scott Cross hit the ground running at his introductory press conference in the Stadium Club at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Thursday.
Cross, this season an assistant coach at TCU, was a head coach for 12 years at UT-Arlington, in the same Sun Belt Conference as Troy. Cross averaged 19 wins a season before the school fired him last March after three consecutive 20-win seasons.