{"id":221832,"date":"2025-09-12T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221832\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:05:23","slug":"wofford-to-fire-dwight-perry-terriers-to-dismiss-coach-with-less-than-two-months-before-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221832\/","title":{"rendered":"Wofford to fire Dwight Perry: Terriers to dismiss coach with less than two months before season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wofford<\/a>\u00a0has suspended men’s basketball coach Dwight Perry, with plans to formally fire Perry within the next two weeks, sources told CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander. The school sent a formal written notice of its intentions this week, though Perry is expected to defend his name in the matter with the hopes of keeping his job, according to Norlander. The Field of 68<\/a> first reported Friday that the school informed Perry “he has been let go.”<\/p>\n

Perry led the Terriers to an NCAA Tournament appearance in March after winning the SoCon Tournament and posted a 36-31 record in two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wofford’s move comes less than two months before the 2025-26 season opener. Assistant coach Drew Gibson, a 2008 Wofford graduate, has been elevated to interim head coach, per the school.<\/p>\n

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The timing of the change is less than ideal, and it’s the second time in three years that Wofford has dismissed its coach during a strange time.<\/p>\n

Perry took over as Wofford’s interim coach in the middle of the 2022-23 season after then-coach Jay McAuley resigned after complaints that he regularly forced players to participate in team activities beyond the NCAA’s 20-hour-a-week limit.<\/p>\n

The NCAA ruled on the case in August 2024 when Wofford was slapped with a year of probation and McAuley was handed a two-year show-cause order.<\/p>\n

It’s college basketball’s second unexpected coaching move this week, after Saint Joseph’s coach Billy Lange chose to step down on Wednesday<\/a> to accept a job on the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Wofford\u00a0has suspended men’s basketball coach Dwight Perry, with plans to formally fire Perry within the next…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2076,120588,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68,120590,120589,95935],"class_list":{"0":"post-221832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-dwight-perry-fired","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wofford-basketball-coach-fired","19":"tag-wofford-coach-dwight-perry","20":"tag-wofford-terriers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115193363081702653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}