On April 6th, 2017, OSU men’s head basketball coach Mike Boynton hired his first (and only assistant, so far) coach outside of the existing regime in Stillwater. His name is John Cooper, the 48-year-old former head coach of the Miami (Ohio) Redhawks, who was let go at the end of the 2016-17 season.
Cooper’s hiring as an assistant has already paid at least one potentially huge dividend for the Cowboys. Cooper’s former point guard, MAC Freshman of the Year Michael Weathers Jr., has transferred to Stillwater.
The 6-foot-2 point guard will have three years of eligibility remaining when he is eligible to suit up at the start of 2018.