Scott Soprych heads into his second season as an assistant coach for Chicago State and holds nearly eight years of experience in NCAA Division I men’s basketball in various capacities and has been a part of two Final Four teams in his coaching career. Last season, Soprych helped coach four CSU players who earned All-Independent honors, including a first team and second team honoree.

Soprych arrived in Chicago after spending three seasons on the men’s basketball staff at LSU as the Director of Basketball Operations. While at LSU, he was involved with the Tigers’ basketball camps and Sixth Man Club along with coordinating video exchange, working with team managers and equipment. He was part of LSU’s 2005-06 Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship team that finished 27-9, won the Atlanta Regional and advanced to the 2006 Final Four in Indianapolis.

A Lemont, Ill., native, Soprych worked as a manager on the Indiana University men’s basketball team from 2000-03 in which his duties consisted of video breakdown and exchange, game day operations, camps and team management. He was a member of the 2001-02 Hoosiers squad that captured the Big Ten championship and played in the NCAA championship game against Maryland. Soprych later served as the head manager at IU as he supervised and selected a managerial staff to work under him for head coach Mike Davis and the Hoosiers.

Soprych served as an assistant coach for the Adidas Indiana Elite AAU team in the summer of 2004. The Indiana Elite, which featured six players who either signed with or played for Division I schools, posted a 35-11 record in addition to finishing second at the AAU National Shootout and making the elite eight in tournaments at Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He also served as an assistant coach for the Nike Bloomington White AAU squad and was head coach of the AAU Brownstown basketball team in the summer of 2001.