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Former Central Michigan head coach Jay Smith verbally accepts head coaching position at Kalamazoo College

Former Central Michigan University men’s basketball head coach Jay Smith has verbally accepted the head coaching position at Kalamazoo College.

Smith has 31 years of basketball coaching experience, including a combined 10 years as a head coach at Grand Valley State and Central Michigan.

“I am elated to accept the position of head men’s basketball coach at Kalamazoo College,” Smith said in a Kalamazoo College press release. “I am truly grateful for the opportunity that [Director of Athletics] Kristen Smith and the search committee have given me. I am looking forward to the challenge of taking this program and molding it into a championship culture.