Veteran faculty basketball coach Chris Mack is headed again to the sideline.
Mack is anticipated to turn into the subsequent head coach at Charleston, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday evening. Mack is the previous head coach at Louisville and Xavier and has led his groups to 9 NCAA match appearances in 13 years.
Mack hasn’t coached since being fired by Louisville in January 2022, a departure that led to that college’s ill-fated hiring of Kenny Payne.
Mack’s finest work got here at Xavier, which he led to 5 consecutive NCAA tournaments through the faculty’s first 5 years within the Huge East to shut his tenure there. He led Xavier to eight NCAA appearances in 9 complete seasons as head coach.
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He’ll take over a Charleston program that has been on the high of the Coastal Athletic Affiliation the previous two years and reached the NCAA match in every of the previous two years beneath head coach Pat Kelsey. who earlier this week was named Louisville’s coach.
Charleston has seven NCAA appearances in class historical past and its teaching lineage consists of Bobby Cremins and John Kresse.
Mack’s hiring is a daring one for Charleston, which has been atop the hypothesis for the Atlantic 10 within the wake of UMass’ upcoming departure to the Mid-American Convention. If Charleston is added to the convention within the coming months, Mack would give the A-10 a confirmed and constant winner. He’s 278-133 in 13 years as a head coach. He received a pair of A-10 common season titles and one Huge East common season title whereas at Xavier.
Mack’s historical past of bringing groups to the NCAA match doesn’t embody his 2019-20 staff at Louisville. Mack had Louisville No. 1 within the nation within the Related Press ballot that season and projected as a No. 4 seed that 12 months when the NCAA match was canceled.
Mack reached the NCAA match in 9 of his first 10 seasons as a head coach. He has authored 10 20-win seasons.
The Discipline of 68 first reported Mack’s anticipated return at Charleston.
