Crofton will hold similar responsibilites for the Penn State women's basketball team. The Lady Lions went 10-19 last season and 1-17 in the Big Ten. Keiger enters her seventh season as head coach.

Less than a month after Penn State men's basketball hired a GM, the women's basketball team followed suit. Lady Lions coach Carolyn Kieger named Jason Crafton as the program's first general manager.

Cawley, who led the Penn State women's volleyball team to the NCAA title while undergoing treatment for breast cancer, won ...