LOUISIANA La. — UL Lafayette basketball coach Jessie Evans spent Wednesday’s first day of the national signing period on the West Coast, and it apparently wasn’t a recruiting trip.

A staff member at the University of San Francisco, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday afternoon that Evans was on the USF campus Wednesday and was expected to meet with athletic director Bill Hogan about the Dons’ basketball coaching position.

A passenger on an airplane flight from Lafayette to Houston Tuesday afternoon confirmed that Evans was on her flight, which left Lafayette Regional Airport between 5 and 6 p.m. Flight connections for the West Coast out of Lafayette go through either Houston or Dallas.

University of Louisiana athletic director Nelson Schexnayder said he received a phone call from Hogan Wednesday morning, letting him know that he would be interviewing Evans as a candidate for USF’s open coaching position.

“We spoke this morning,” Schexnayder said, “and he said that he would be talking to Jessie.”

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Dan McDonald
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