Michigan hoops strength coach resigns

ANN ARBOR, Mich.– Jon Sanderson has actually resigned as a strength and conditioning coach at Michigan, two-plus months after he quit working with the men’s basketball program under coach Juwan Howard.

“We value Jon’s contributions throughout the years and wish him the very best progressing,” school representative Kurt Svoboda said Friday.A message

looking for remark was left with Sanderson.Howard, who had heart surgery in September, went back to his head-coaching duties in mid-December after a review of an event involving several individuals throughout a team practice. Sanderson did not sign up with the team on the sideline for its Dec. 10 game at Iowa, and was not on the group’s bench in subsequent games.Athletic director Warde Manuel stated in a Dec. 15 statement that a”comprehensive internal review”did not reveal anything that necessitated disciplinary action for anybody involved.Michigan, Howard and Sanderson have actually not shared specific information of the evaluation or what led to it.Former coach John Beilein hired Sanderson in 2009, and Howard kept him a years later on. He formerly was the strength and conditioning coach at Clemson for its males’s and females’s basketball programs and operated at Marshall.Sanderson played basketball at Ohio State, where he was the beginning small forward on its Final 4 team in 1999, and finished his college career at Ohio University. His boy, Jonathan, is a highly touted sophomore point player at Saline High School, which is near Michigan’s campus.The Wolverines are 8-21– one except a single-season school record for losses– after losing by 30 points at Rutgers on Thursday night for their sixth straight defeat and 10th in 11 games.