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The University of Arizona has filled its women's basketball coaching vacancy.

Niya Butts was introduced this morning as the replacement for Joan Bonvicini who was fired last month after 17 seasons.

Butts, a 30-year-old former Tennessee standout, recently completed her fifth year as an assistant coach at Kentucky.

An associate head coach for the last year, she arrived at Kentucky in April 2003 after one season as a Michigan State assistant and two seasons as an assistant at Tennessee Technological University.

At Tennessee, Butts played on two NCAA title teams in 1997 and 1998.

Butts, a native of Americus, Ga., earned a bachelor's degree in social work at Tennessee and a master's in education from Tennessee Tech.