BOZEMAN — Montana State head males’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle introduced on Friday that Johnny Hill has joined his employees forward of the 2022-23 season.
The hiring comes about three weeks after MSU assistant coach Ken Moses took an assistant job at Utah Valley.
Hill has been a part of the school basketball panorama over a decade as both a coach or athlete. Hill most lately spent the final two seasons as an assistant coach at Idaho.
Previous to tenure with the Vandals, Hill served two years as a Particular Assistant to the Head Coach and a season as graduate assistant at Grand Canyon. Throughout his three years at GCU, the Lopes had a 55-43 report, together with a 27-19 report in Western Athletic Convention video games.
“I feel he’s going to be an incredible asset to our employees,” Sprinkle stated. “He has a familiarity with the league being within the Massive Sky the final two years at Idaho. He helped recruit plenty of the gamers they’d this previous 12 months that have been fairly good. Mikey Dixon and Rashad Smith have been each at Grand Canyon and adopted him there. He labored with coach (Zac) Claus who I’ve plenty of respect for, so I do know he realized so much about how a program is ran. He clearly was with Dan Majerle at Grand Canyon who had actually good success.
“Johnny performed at a excessive stage at three totally different colleges. He’s nonetheless shut with coach (Tim) Jankovich, who lately retired from SMU, who was his coach at Illinois State and he spoke the world of him. I feel he’s a extremely brilliant, younger basketball thoughts.”
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“Excited is an understatement,” Hill stated of becoming a member of the Montana State teaching employees. “Once you’re within the teaching trade, you acquire so many experiences with totally different folks. For me, that’s enormous. In my enjoying profession, I had the chance to play for some excellent coaches. On this realm of my life, if you get to work with somebody like Danny Sprinkle, that’s massive time.
“I’ve seen the entire thing from afar once I was at Grand Canyon and we performed Montana State, then whereas teaching at Idaho. I don’t assume it’s a coincidence they minimize down nets this previous 12 months. I feel it’s indicative of the kind of coach and particular person he’s. So I’m extraordinarily excited to affix this system.”
Hill started his teaching profession as an assistant on the College of Northwestern Ohio, additionally performing as the top coach of the junior varsity staff.
Hill started his collegiate enjoying profession at Illinois State, incomes the staff’s Most Improved Participant award. He performed two seasons at Texas Arlington, the place he was named a staff captain and began for the Mavericks. Hill accomplished his school enjoying profession at Purdue, beginning 11 video games for a Boilermaker staff which was nationally ranked all year long. He helped the staff earn a 5 seed within the 2016 NCAA event.
“I actually like and am working to be effectively versed and effectively rounded,” Hill stated. “I prefer to assume I’ve a fairly strong basketball acumen. I’ve gained an appreciation for scouting, however an enormous cause for me stepping into teaching was due to recruiting and the relationships you develop with gamers over the course of years. I really like that side of constructing significant relationships with guys and serving to them obtain their goals and aspirations.”
Hill made the Tutorial Honor Roll at each Texas Arlington and Purdue. He earned his bachelor’s diploma from Texas Arlington earlier than acquiring a grasp’s diploma in expertise management and innovation from Purdue.