JONESBORO, Ark. (4/14/25) – Arkansas State men's basketball head coach Ryan Pannone has hired Hayden Sowers, one of the top junior-college head coaches in the country, as an assistant coach, the program announced Monday.
Sowers – the two-time Western Junior College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year – joins the Red Wolves after spending the last four seasons at one of the top junior college programs in the country, South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, including the past three as head coach of the Texans. In a decade of coaching – eight at the junior-college level and two in the prep ranks – 95 Sowers-coached players have reached the Division-I ranks.