Sources: Ex-NBA star Bibby to be Sac State coach
Mike Bibby, a 14-year NBA veteran and former Sacramento Kings star, has actually agreed on a deal to end up being the next guys’s basketball head coach of the Sacramento State Hornets, sources informed ESPN on Monday.Bibby’s agent
, Tyler Glass of CSE Skill, negotiated the arrangement with school officials in recent days. The university is slated to open a brand-new basketball center on school next fall. Sac State president Luke Wood, an alum and the youngest president ever designated in the California State University system, has been aggressive in his approach with the athletics programs– and the hiring of Bibby continues that.He would change Michael Czepil, who served as the Big Sky Conference school’s interim head coach for the 2024-25 season.Bibby previously spent six years as a coach at Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, where he used the school’s very first state champion team as a student in 1996 before competing for 2 seasons at the University of Arizona. He led the Wildcats to the 1997 NCAA championship as a freshman.Editor’s Picks Bibby was prepared by the Vancouver Grizzlies the next year. He bet numerous teams over
his NBA profession from 1998 to 2012, balancing 14.7 points, 5.5 helps and 3.1 rebounds in 1,001 games. His most effective NBA stint featured the Kings from 2001 to 2008, that included one Western Conference finals berth, two West semifinal runs and averages of 17.6 points, 5.4 helps and 3.2 rebounds in 476 regular-season games.As a high school coach, Bibby guided Shadow Mountain to 4 successive state champions, winning a total of 5 over his run from 2013 to 2019.
Sacramento State went 7-25 this season under Czepil, who was promoted last spring after David Patrick left to take a job as associate head coach at LSU.The Hornets had actually gone 28-42 in 2 seasons under Patrick, and the program has actually never ever made an NCAA tournament given that moving up to Division I in 1991-92. The Hornets have published a winning record just two times since then, going 16-14 in 2019-20 and 21-12 in 2014-15. Information from The Associated Press was utilized in this report.