Kansas State men’s basketball coach Jerome Tang is hiring an old friend to serve as his new right-hand man at Bramlage Coliseum. Matthew Driscoll, who worked alongside Tang for many years as an assistant at Baylor, has agreed to step down as the head coach at North Florida and become the associate head coach at K-State.

An HBCU hired a Heisman Trophy winner to run its men's basketball program. Charlie Ward signed a five-year deal with Florida A&M, giving the SWAC some extra swagger and pop. Ward was an electric football player at Florida State in the early 1990s,

Matthew Driscoll resigned after 16 seasons as the head coach at North Florida to accept an associate position on Jerome Tang's staff at Kansas State.