Rod Strickland has landed his first college head coaching job.
On Wednesday afternoon, it was reported by Adam Finkelstein of 247Sports that Strickland will accept the position of head coach at LIU Brooklyn, replacing Derek Kellogg. Strickland, who was an assistant under Kentucky head coach John Calipari from 2009-14, had previously been the NBA G League Ignite’s program manager.
During Strickland’s five seasons in Lexington, he spent one year as an assistant coach before moving into the special assistant to the head coach role over the next four. He then followed Orlando Antigua when the latter took the head coaching gig at South Florida from 2014-17.