Cal State Long Beach Basketball Assistant Rejoins Alma Mater
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LONG BEACH — Dereck Whittenburg has resigned as an assistant basketball coach of the Cal State Long Beach men’s basketball team to return to his alma mater.
Whittenburg, who was a star player at North Carolina State in the early 1980s, will become an assistant under N.C. State’s head coach and athletic director, Jim Valvano.
He came to Long Beach when Joe Harrington was hired as head basketball coach last spring.
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