At the time of his move from Texas to Kentucky, Jai Lucas was hired as a recruiting coordinator and off-court special assistant to John Calipari. While updated COVID-19 protocols allowed him to help out on the court this summer and into the fall, along with NCAA guidelines allowing Lucas to maintain loose contact with recruits, there were still several limitations for the new Kentucky assistant.
These limitations were in place not even a month, as Calipari announced last week that he decided to shuffle coaching roles back in September, making Lucas an official on-court assistant.
With the change, Lucas joined Joel Justus and Bruiser Flint as Kentucky’s assistant coaches, while Tony Barbee will now serve as Calipari’s associate head coach.