Almost two weeks after Vanderbilt announced that former coach Bryce Drew would not be retained, the Commodores have a new head man. Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse will lead the Commodores in 2019-20.
Stackhouse is still best known for his days as a basketball player. After a two-year college career at North Carolina, Stackhouse was the third overall pick in the 1995 NBA Draft and played eighteen seasons in the league, scoring a total of 16,409 points. Since his retirement in 2013, he’s entered coaching, starting as an assistant with the Toronto Raptors before piloting the Raptors 905 (Toronto’s G-League affiliate for two years), going 70-30 in two years, winning the league title in 2016-17 and also being named Coach of the Year, then making it back to the G-League Finals in 2017-18.