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Men's Basketball Corey Miggins, Sports Information Director

Chicago State Men’s Basketball Adds Rodell Davis as Assistant Coach

CHICAGO – The Chicago State University men's basketball team has announced the hiring of Rodell Davis as an assistant coach for the 2018-19 season.
 
A native of south suburban Dixmoor, Ill., Davis comes to the Green and White after serving as the Athletic Director at Kennedy-King College, a local junior college located in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. In addition to working at KKC, he also worked with first-year head coach Lance Irvin as an assistant coach at Chicago's Morgan Park High School where they won back-to-back Illinois High School Association Class 3A state championship.
 
"Bringing a coach with experience like Rodell is great for our program as we look to build a solid foundation day-by-day with our sights toward becoming a top contending team within the Western Athletic Conference ranks," said Irvin.
 
Davis also worked as an assistant coach at three NCAA Division I Drake, Providence and Loyola Chicago, and a NCAA Division III school in Wisconsin-Platteville. He helped Drake post one of its best seasons in school history with a 28-5 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament ending a 37-year drought. In his first season at Providence, Davis was part of a Friar coaching staff that won 10 games in Big East Conference play, including a win at top-ranked Pittsburgh, and qualified for the National Invitation Tournament.
 
Davis also holds head coaching experience at the junior college level at KKC and Laramie County Community College in Wyoming as well as high school coaching experience at Morgan Park, Thornwood and Proviso East.
 
A 1992 graduate of the University of Iowa, Davis was a member of three NCAA Tournament teams in four seasons with the Hawkeyes under head coach Dr. Tom Davis. He was a team captain in his senior season in 1991-92.
 
The Cougars open their season tomorrow evening at Indiana live on the Big Ten Network with a start time of 5:30 p.m., central time.
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