Eric Musselman Named USC Males’s Basketball Head Coach

Males’s Basketball | April 04, 2024

Eric Musselman has been named the USC Males’s Basketball Head Coach, Charles Griffin Cale Director of Athletics Jennifer Cohen introduced at the moment (April 4). Musselman can be formally launched to the USC Household and members of the media on Friday, April fifth at 10:30 am within the Centofante Corridor of Fame at Galen Middle.

“I’m past excited to welcome Eric, Danyelle and their unbelievable household to USC,” mentioned Cohen. “We have been decided to seek out the most effective coach to champion the event of our student-athletes and elevate our males’s basketball program. His observe report of constructing profitable packages and his unwavering dedication to a tradition of excellence make him the proper match for USC. Eric shows coronary heart, boldness, resiliency, and every thing that it means to be a Trojan. He conjures up togetherness and can assist construct and develop this system’s connectivity throughout the Trojan neighborhood. As we transfer to the Large Ten and enter a brand new chapter for USC Males’s Basketball, there is no such thing as a higher match than Eric Musselman to launch our program to new heights.”

Musselman involves Los Angeles after a profitable thirty-year profession as a university, skilled and worldwide head and assistant coach. Most not too long ago, in 5 seasons as the top coach on the College of Arkansas, Musselman led the Razorbacks to 3 NCAA Tournaments, together with two Elite Eight runs and three Candy Sixteen berths in his 5 seasons. Arkansas was ranked as excessive as No. 6 (USA At this time Coaches Ballot) throughout his tenure. He accomplished his tenure in Fayetteville with a 111-59 total report and had no less than one participant chosen in every of the final 5 NBA Drafts, the third-best energetic streak amongst NCAA coaches. 

“My household and I could not be extra excited for this unbelievable alternative at USC,” mentioned Musselman. “I’m grateful to President Folt and Jen Cohen for the possibility to steer the boys’s basketball program at such a world-class college with a wealthy custom of success. We can be dedicated to the event of our student-athletes and upholding the values that make the Trojan Household so particular. We are going to hit the bottom working and work tirelessly to make our nice alumni, followers and all of Los Angeles proud.”

Previous to Arkansas, Musselman was the top coach on the College of Nevada (2016-19), main the Wolf Pack to 3 Mountain West Convention common season championships in every of his final three seasons. The Wolf Pack received the CBI (Faculty Basketball Invitational) postseason event in his first yr as head coach whereas including a Mountain West event title in 2017 to safe this system’s first NCAA Match look since 2007. He then led Nevada to at-large berths to the 2018 and 2019 NCAA Match as a seventh seed in every season, with the Wolf Pack reaching as excessive as No. 5 in a nationwide ballot in 2018-19. Nevada student-athlete Caleb Martin was chosen as an All-American in each 2018 and 2019. 

“I need to welcome Coach Musselman and his household to Los Angeles for one of the vital anticipated eras within the historical past of USC athletics,” mentioned USC President Carol Folt. “Throughout my dialog with Eric, it was clear he’ll put college students first, form future leaders, and win the proper method.”

Musselman was an assistant coach at LSU and Arizona State, following stints as the top coach of the NBA G-League Los Angeles D-Fenders and Reno Bighorns and the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors. He was additionally an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies, Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic and Minnesota Timberwolves. He labored in the US Basketball League and the Continental Basketball League and on the worldwide entrance, Musselman has coached with the US, Dominican Republic and Venezuelan nationwide groups.

For his teaching accomplishments, Musselman was named the Mountain West Coach of the Yr (2018), the NBA D-League Coach of the Yr (2012), the US Basketball League Coach of the Yr (1996) and was a semifinalist for school basketball’s nationwide Naismith Coach of the Yr Award (2021) and was the runner-up within the NBA Coach of the Yr award voting (2003). 

A local of Ohio and Minnesota, he earned his Bachelor’s Diploma from the College of San Diego the place he performed basketball, throughout which era the Toreros performed in two NCAA Tournaments and Musselman was named to the West Coast Convention All-Educational group thrice. Along with his education in San Diego and training within the Bay Space, Musselman brings sturdy California ties to the place.

Musselman and his spouse, Danyelle, have a daughter, Mariah, and Musselman has two sons, Matthew and Michael.

Musselman’s hiring is contingent upon his completion of a profitable College background screening.

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