After spending the last three years as Avery Johnson’s associate head coach at Alabama, Tennessee Tech has hired John Pelphrey to be its next head basketball coach.
“It’s an honor and privilege to be at Tennessee Tech,” Pelphrey said in a statement. “My family and I, and our staff, were looking for a place where we could go and learn, lead and take on challenges in college basketball. We’re very appreciative of Mark Wilson and his pursuit of us. We have complete confidence and trust in him. We love the alignment between him and President Oldham and their vision for basketball at Tennessee Tech moving into the future, and we are very, very excited to be a part of that.