Solomon named St. Bonaventure coach

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., May 4 (UPI) -- The task of cleaning up the St. Bonaventure men's basketball program has been given to Notre Dame assistant Anthony Solomon.

Two days after reports surfaced, Solomon was named Jan van Breda Kolff's successor Sunday. He will be introduced Monday at a news conference.

An assistant at Notre Dame the past three years, Solomon takes over a program mired in turmoil. Last month, van Breda Kolff was fired after a university investigation determined he had violated NCAA rules related to the eligibility of a player.

In early March, the Atlantic 10 Conference stripped the Bonnies of six league victories and barred them from the conference tournament after center James Terrell was ruled ineligible for violating NCAA junior college transfer quidelines.

That led to a boycott by the players, which forced the school to forfeit its final two regular season games against Massachusetts and Dayton.

The university was widely criticized for allowing the players to dictate policy. There was even some speculation that the Atlantic 10 would expel the school from the league.

While that did not happen, the controversy surrounding Terrell and the player boycott did lead to the resignation of university president Robert Wickenheiser and Athletic Director Gothard Lane.

The basketball team was being run on an interim basis by Van Breda Kolff's assistant, Billy McCaffrey.