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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Following a nonaccomplishment successful the Mountain West tournament, Justin Hutson said helium coached his past crippled arsenic caput manager astatine Fresno State.
"I privation to explicit gratitude to everybody I've been astir during these six years," Hutson said aft a 87-75 nonaccomplishment to no. 18 Utah State successful overtime. "It was a batch of fun."
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His declaration ends successful April but said that helium plans connected staying connected successful a consulting relation to "do immoderate they privation maine to bash and assistance nevertheless they privation maine to help."
Fresno State finishes the 2023-24 run with an grounds of 12-21 & 4-14 grounds successful MW play. The 21 losses necktie for the astir successful programme past with the 2008-09 season. The 14 MW losses are besides the astir since the programme joined the league successful the 2012-13 season.
Hutson compiled an wide grounds of (92-94) during his six-year tenure, winning the 2022 The Basketball Classic against Coastal Carolina.
In 2018, Hutson was hired by Fresno State aft serving arsenic an Assistant Coach for 10 seasons astatine San Diego State (2006-11, '13-18). Hutson besides spent 2 seasons astatine Cal Poly (2004-06), and 2 seasons astatine CSU Bakersfield (1998-2000).
Hutson, a Bakersfield native, led the Bulldogs to a (23-9) grounds successful his archetypal play with the program. That run earned him the 2018-19 Joe B. Hall National Coach of the Year honor. That play FS ranked 9th successful the state successful 3-point tract goals per crippled (10.7), 16th successful full 3-point tract goals and 24th successful some 3-point tract extremity percent defence (225-735, 30.6 percent) and 3-point tract extremity percent discourtesy (38.1 percent). The Bulldogs' defence besides led the MW successful steals (228, 7.1 per game) and turnovers forced (13.7 per game).
Prior to his clip successful the assemblage ranks, Hutson spent clip arsenic the caput varsity manager astatine Bakersfield High. During his 4 seasons with the program, Hutson led the Drillers to four-straight playoff appearances, earning a CIF Central Section title successful 2003.
During his clip arsenic caput coach, Hutson helped produced 2 First-Team All-Mountain West players successful Deshon Taylor (2018-19) and Orlando Robinson (2021-22).
Taylor's champion crippled came successful March of 2019, scoring a career-high 37 points successful a 121-81 blowout triumph implicit San Jose State. The Bulldogs acceptable a Mountain West Conference grounds astatine the clip with 23, 3-pointers made successful a azygous game. Hutson's squad besides acceptable a programme grounds with 321-made 3-pointers successful a season, and acceptable the Save Mart Center grounds for astir points successful a game.
The 'Dogs would participate the league tourney that twelvemonth arsenic the 3-seed, yet falling to No. 2 Utah State successful the semifinals. Fresno State failed to marque it past the quarterfinals signifier of the league tourney for the remainder of Hutson's clip arsenic Head Coach.
Hutson's different First-Team All-MW product, Orlando Robinson, is wide considered his champion recruit. As a Junior, Robinson averaged 19.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. He was besides named MVP for The Basketball Classic title team.
Robinson would spell undrafted successful 2022, but yet earned a two-way woody with the Miami Heat successful December of that year. After spending 2 summers successful the Heat's Summer League program, Robinson parlayed his accumulation into a 2-year, $3.92m modular declaration successful July of 2023.
Fresno State present searches for its 20th Head Coach successful programme history.
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