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VCU expected to hire former assistant Mike Rhoades

NCAA Basketball Tournament - VCU v Indiana

PORTLAND, OR - MARCH 17: (C) Head coach Shaka Smart of the Virginia Commonwealth Rams talks to his team during a break in the game in the first half while taking on the Indiana Hoosiers during the third round of the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Rose Garden Arena on March 17, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

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Mike Rhoades is expected to be named the next head coach at VCU, sources told NBC Sports.

Rhoades was the head coach at Rice the past three seasons, taking over a program that won just seven games before he arrived to a program that went 23-12 and 11-7 in Conference USA this past season. Prior to getting the head job at Rice, Rhoades was an assistant at VCU for five years under Shaka Smart. He previously spent a decade as the head coach at Randolph-Macon, a very good Division III program in southern Virginia.

Rhoades will replace Will Wade, who left VCU for LSU on Monday evening.

The news was first reported by CBS Sports.