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BREAKING: Joel Justus takes assistant coaching job at Arizona State

Joel Justus will join Bobby Hurley’s staff at Arizona State.

According to Jonathan Givony of Draft Express, Justus is leaving Kentucky to take the top assistant coaching position at ASU.

Kentucky assistant Joel Justus has elected to take the top assistant post under Bobby Hurley at Arizona State, a source told ESPN. Justus was the lead recruiter of many of the top prospects to go through Kentucky since 2016 https://t.co/pPNdabevuM

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) April 22, 2021

KSR can confirm ESPN’s report.

Justus, who just completed his fifth season as an assistant coach and his seventh total with the program, joined the staff during the 2014-15 season as the team’s director of analytics.