FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas assistant coach David Patrick attended Olympic basketball games in Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008 as a fan.
Patrick will have a better seat this summer when the 2021 Olympics — delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic — are scheduled to be held in Tokyo.
Patrick will have a court-side bench seat as an assistant coach for the Australian Olympic team known as the Boomers.
“I’ll be prime time,” he said.
Patrick, a Bermuda native who grew up in Australia before moving to the United States as a high school senior, was an assistant coach for the Boomers in 2019 when they finished fourth at the FIBA Basketball World Cup to qualify for the Olympics.