Will Wade has added the newest member to his coaching staff.
Less than a week since he was introduced, Wade has added former North Texas basketball coach Tony Benford to hi staff. LSU made the hire official on March 28.
“I am excited to have Tony Benford join our staff,” Wade said in a news release. “His experience as both a head coach and long-time assistant on the recruiting trail will help us in our stated mission to recruit the best players that want to come to LSU and make LSU a consistent winner. Tony is also a fine on-court coach, and his track record shows that he is able to develop players that can live out their dreams once they have finished at LSU.”
Benford, who replaced former LSU coach Johnny Jones at North Texas, has a career 62-95 record.
The 53-year-old coach has an extensive basketball career.
He worked as an associate coach for Marquette in 2011-12 and was an assistant coach from 2008-11.
Benford was also an assistant coach at Nebraska and UTEP.
Benford’s longest stint with a school was from 1998-06, where he was the associate head coach at Arizona State.
“First of all, I’m extremely excited to be a part of the basketball program at LSU,” Benford said in the release. “I think Coach Wade is one of the best young coaches in the country and having the opportunity to work with him and restore the great tradition here at LSU is something I am really looking forward to. I feel like his style of play will be very attractive to recruits.”