Sources: Bama’s Henry to head Georgia Southern

12:17 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Alabama assistant coach Charlie Henry is set to end up being the next head coach at Georgia Southern, sources

informed ESPN on Tuesday.The four-year offer is expected to be finalized later today, sources said.Henry will continue to coach with Alabama through

the rest of the guys’s NCAA tournament. Alabama is the No. 1 overall seed and will play

in the South region, beginning its roadway in Birmingham this week.Henry has actually been a linchpin of Nate Oats’Alabama staff. He began his career as Oats ‘assistant at Romulus High School in Michigan.

He has actually also worked as the head coach of the Windy City Bulls of the G League and as an assistant coach under Fred Hoiberg at Iowa State and with the Chicago Bulls.Henry rejoined Oats in Tuscaloosa in 2019 and has actually helped Alabama to one of the very best stretches of basketball in school history.

Henry runs the Crimson Tide’s defense, which ranks No. 1 nationally in reliable field goal percentage and 3rd total in adjusted protective effectiveness on KenPom.com.Henry changes Brian Burg, who went 43-45 over his 3 seasons at the school. Georgia Southern has actually not reached the NCAA tournament given that 1992, when it won the Trans America Athletic Conference tournament and lost to No. 2 seed Oklahoma State of the Big Eight in the first round.No. 1 Alabama plays the winner of the First 4 game in between No. 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi and No. 16 Southeast Missouri State on Thursday afternoon.