Two former Tennessee basketball gamers have joined coach Rick Barnes’ employees previous to his tenth season in Knoxville.
Isaiah Sulack is returning to Tennessee as a graduate assistant and Colin Coyne is sticking round as a pupil assistant coach. Each have been walk-ons throughout Barnes’ tenure and exhausted their eligibility following final season.
Sulack completed his enjoying profession at Marist, whereas Coyne graduated after Tennessee’s 2023-24 season.
Isaiah Sulack, Colin Coyne be a part of Tennessee basketball employees
Sulack spent three seasons at Tennessee from 2020-23. He performed in six video games within the closing two seasons, getting a three-point play in opposition to South Carolina in February 2023. The CAK graduate completed his profession at Marist in 2023-24. He averaged 2.1 factors in seven video games.
The 6-foot-6 guard performed for Bossier Parish Neighborhood Faculty and Olney Central Faculty earlier than coming to UT.
Coyne’s profession wrapped up after Tennessee’s Elite Eight run final season.
Coyne performed 14 minutes in eight video games in his two seasons at UT. He has scored two factors, together with a dunk in Tennessee’s win in opposition to Norfolk State in December 2023. The 6-foot-9 ahead spent his first three seasons on the College of Mary Washington, a Division III college in his hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He performed in 52 video games and began 23 earlier than transferring to Tennessee.
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Tennessee basketball employees has new assistants in Lucas Campbell, Bryan Lentz
In July, Lucas Campbell and Bryan Lentz have been promoted to assistant coaches and Riley Collins was promoted to assistant director of participant improvement. Tennessee has 5 assistant coaches, which grew to become the allowable complete for males’s and ladies’s basketball as of July 2023. UT has had the trio of Rod Clark, Justin Gainey and Gregg Polinsky for the previous three seasons.
Campbell, who was a UT walk-on guard below Barnes from 2015-19, returned to Tennessee because the director of recruiting in June 2022. Lentz has been on Barnes’ employees since 2018 and is getting into his seventh season at UT. He beforehand was the director of participant improvement.
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Collins joined Tennessee as a graduate assistant previous to the 2022-23 season. He spent the previous two years within the position earlier than being employed in a full-time capability because the assistant director of participant improvement.
Mary-Carter Eggerr is the director of basketball operations, Garrett Medenwald is the power and conditioning coach, and Chad Newman is the coach.
Director of video analytics Luke Schapker and graduate assistants David Kasanganay and Scott Daughtry spherical out the UT employees.
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