For that, McFerrin received a one-year contract extension through the 2015-16 season. Her base pay will remain at $180,000.....
.....McFerrin has compiled a 53-45 record in her three seasons at the UofM. The Tigers are coming off a 21-13 campaign that included wins over Southern Miss and No. 3 seed Rice in the C-USA tournament and a bid to the WNIT, where the Tigers lost a first round game to Alabama.
"It's important for a lot of reasons," McFerrin said. "No. 1, it's important for recruiting. The young people we are recruiting right now want to know who their coach is going to be in college. Nobody looks forward to a coaching change. That's why we did it, so we could assure recruits in the 2012 class who their coaches are going to be as they went through their four years.
"Secondly, it's just important to create stability in this program. Hopefully, we've created enough momentum with recruiting, with facilities, and this allows us to continue those projects and keep the momentum going. We've seen some success in our program the last couple of years. I think we're ready to build on that success and I'm excited about being the person in charge to continue to strive toward the goals we've set for our program."
The Tigers will get a jumpstart on the season by playing four exhibition games during a tour of Italy from Aug. 15-25. It was a trip originally scheduled for 2012, but McFerrin decided to move it up a year.
Ann Jones (Memphis Elite-Daniels) will begin her freshman year with the Tigers on this Italy trip. A BIG MEMPHIS ELITE BEST WISHES GOES OUT TO ANN!
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