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Shaka Dingani Smart (born April 8, 1977) is an American men's college basketball coach and former college basketball player. He is the current head men's basketball coach at Marquette University . He married his wife Maya Payne Smart in 2006 and had his daughter Zora in 2011.
The 2010–11 VCU Rams men's basketball team represented Virginia Commonwealth University in the Colonial Athletic Association conference during the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Rams, led by second year head coach Shaka Smart , played their home games at the Stuart C. Siegel Center .
Led by third-year head coach Shaka Smart, the Rams were coming off a season marked by a run to the Final Four. Expected to finish lower in the CAA regular season standings, the Rams finished as regular season runners-up with a 15–3 conference record, before winning the 2012 CAA Men's Basketball Championship against Drexel, 59–56, earning ...
Things changed for Smart during the 2010-11 season as he went from a novice head coach to a college basketball household name as he led the Rams from the First Four to the Final Four in the NCAA ...
Smart is 347-171 since becoming the head coach at VCU in 2009. He's 75-29 at Marquette. ... winning five straight games as an 11 seed to make the 2011 Final Four. What is Shaka Smart's contract? ...
By comparison, the CAA had only four at-large bids in the same period (one of them being VCU's 2011 Final Four team). [17] On Sunday, March 15, 2015, VCU won its first Atlantic 10 conference tournament championship. On April 2, 2015, Smart left VCU to go to the University of Texas.
Smart is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since taking VCU from the First Four to the Final Four 13 years ago, and it's been two years since he reached the NCAAs in his first season at Marquette.
The team is best known for its Final Four run in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the first time the Rams made it beyond the second round. The Rams' journey to the Final Four under coach Shaka Smart began in one of the four opening round games, commonly called "play-in" games, intended to narrow the field from 68 to 64 teams.