Report: Joe Dooley is coming back to Kansas men’s basketball as its recruiting coordinator

LAWRENCE — Joe Dooley spent 10 seasons on the Kansas males’s basketball teaching workers from 2003-13, and based on a report will return to the Jayhawks for this upcoming season as its recruiting coordinator.

The Kansas Metropolis Star reported Friday that Dooley would come again to Lawrence after spending the previous 4 seasons as the pinnacle coach at East Carolina, which selected to not deliver him again for the 2022-23 marketing campaign. This most up-to-date stint with ECU, 2018-22, was his second as a head coach there after first operating it from 1995-99. And with 5 seasons as Florida Gulf Coast’s head coach from 2013-2018, he’ll deliver 13 seasons of head teaching expertise to Kansas.

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Dooley’s first run as an assistant with the Jayhawks beneath head coach Invoice Self noticed the group seize Self’s first nationwide championship with this system in 2008. Contemplating Kansas is coming off of one other nationwide title earlier this yr, Dooley may have the chance to assist Self and firm try to repeat as champions. It will solely add to the success the 2 have loved collectively, as the opposite 9 NCAA tournaments they reached with the Jayhawks noticed a number of deep runs that included the 2012 Ultimate 4.

Dooley by no means reached the NCAA match in his eight seasons guiding East Carolina, however he did accomplish that twice with FGCU. Florida Gulf Coast received a First 4 recreation in 2016 as a No. 16 seed earlier than being eradicated within the spherical of 64, and misplaced its spherical of 64 recreation in 2017 as a No. 14 seed. At FGCU, he captured a pair of ASUN Convention match titles and three common season convention crowns.

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To what extent Dooley can help Kansas to extra Huge 12 Convention success, to which he was no stranger the final time, shall be decided in time. On the recruiting path, the Jayhawks are coming off of a high-profile 2022 class that would assist them repeat as Huge 12 common season and match champions. And the 2023 class already has a commit in 247Sports Composite four-star combo guard Chris Johnson, with different prospects being focused.

Jordan Guskey covers College of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.