All signs are pointing to Kentucky hiring Illinois assistants Orlando Antigua and Chin Coleman in the very near future, potentially as early as today. After posting two assistant coach job openings last week in an effort to find replacements for Tony Barbee and Joel Justus, both officially expired on Monday and are no longer listed on the University of Kentucky jobs page.
Reports of Antigua telling Illinois he was leaving the program and returning to Calipari’s staff in Lexington broke last week after UK offered to make the prized assistant one of the highest-paid assistants in college basketball.