BENDER: Jim Larranaga, 17 years after George Mason run, leads Miami to first Final Four. Two days after eliminating the Shockers, George Mason managed another shocker of its own.

After 14 years, George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga leaves behind a school transformed for the University of Miami for more than twice the pay.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Jim Larranaga has taken the Miami Hurricanes' basketball job after 14 years at George Mason, including an improbable run to the Final Four in 2006.

Jim Larranaga, who led the George Mason men’s basketball program to national prominence with a stirring run to the Final Four in 2006, resigned from the Fairfax school Friday to become the head ...

More than five years after his team appeared in the Final Four as the unlikely Cinderella story of the 2005-2006 NCAA Tournament, George Mason head coach Jim Larranaga is moving on. George Mason ...

Miami men's basketball coach Jim Larrañaga will receive George Mason University's highest honorary award – the Mason Medal – at the school's commencement exercises on Saturday, May 14th.

Jim Larrañaga with George Mason at the 2006 Final Four. Now Larrañaga is back in the Final Four at the age of 73, with a bigger school from a more renowned conference. What’s changed in 17 years?

Miami coach Jim Larrañaga brought his Hurricanes to George Mason -- site of his Final Four run a decade ago -- ahead of the ACC Tournament. Skip to content.

Miami head coach Jim Larranaga sees similarities in the Hurricane's upcoming Final Four matchup with UConn to when he upset the Huskies as George Mason coach in 2006, but this time he's not fully ...

George Mason’s head coach Jim Larranaga talks to his team in overtime against Connecticut. The Patriots defeated UCONN 86-84 during the NCAA regional finals. Tribune News Service via Getty I ...

George Mason reached the 2006 Final Four with coach Jim Larranaga, here with Patriot Sammy Hernandez, and fell to Florida 73-58 in the national semifinals at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. DEAN ...