University at Albany men’s basketball fills assistant coach position

“I am immensely grateful to Mentor (Dwayne) Killings for the prospect to step into this new job,” he claimed in a assertion. “Helping persons by the match of basketball is my passion. I can not wait around to pour all the things I have into this neighborhood, this coaching staff members, and most importantly our university student-athletes.”

“Dan provides a loyalty, positivity, and a relentless work ethic to every little thing that he does, and I am thrilled to see him increase into his assistant coaching position,” Killings reported.

Madhavapallil replaces Matt Griffin, who still left UAlbany in Could for an assistant placement at Florida Gulf Coast University. Madhavapallil adopted Killings from Marquette, exactly where he was also basketball operations director.

Guzman joins UAlbany from Stetson College, the place he crammed the identical job for a few seasons. He has also been an affiliate head mentor at Division III Monroe University, scouting director and assistant coach with the Global Basketball Federation, league operations supervisor with the NBA and director of player progress at Rider.

“I am super fired up to be part of the UAlbany group,” Guzman said. “There is not a better time to be a part of this program and I am thrilled to learn from Mentor Killings.”

He was a starting stage guard and captain at Temple, overlapping with Killings’ tenure as assistant director of basketball operations for the Owls.
 
“Having coached Luis at Temple, I witnessed his successful mentality that assisted guide us to 3 NCAA Tournaments,” Killings mentioned.

Conner McBride was also named graduate assistant. 

UAlbany formerly announced that Matt Cioce will fill the purpose of recruiting and movie director left vacant by KJ Baptiste, who also went to FGCU.

Note: A former variation of this story improperly mentioned the position of the recruiting and video director position.