Current position | |
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Title | Head Coach |
Team | Nicholls |
Conference | Southland |
Record | 20–14 (.588) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Aberdeen, Maryland, U.S. | February 21, 1995
Playing career | |
2013–2015 | UNC Greensboro |
2017–2018 | Nicholls State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2018–2019 | South Alabama (GA) |
2021–2022 | McNeese (assistant) |
2023–present | Nicholls |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2019–2021 | Nicholls State (director of basketball operations) |
2022–2023 | Maryland (director of player personnel) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 20–14 (.588) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
As player:
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Tevon Saddler (born February 23, 1995) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Nicholls Colonels men's basketball team. [1]
Saddler started his college basketball career at UNC Greensboro where he was named Southern Conference Freshman of the Year as well as to the All-Freshman team. [2] [3] A year later, he was a third-team all-conference selection. [4] Saddler transferred to Nicholls to play his final season of eligibility and was named a second-team all-Southland Conference selection while also leading the team in rebounding. [5]
In his career, he played in 92 games starting in 88, averaging 13.8 points, 5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game. [6]
Saddler began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at South Alabama under his former college coach Richie Riley before returning to Nicholls State as the director of basketball operations from 2019 to 2021 under Austin Claunch. [1] He had a one-season stint as an assistant coach at McNeese before joining the coaching staff at Maryland as the director of player personnel. [7] [8] [9]
On April 20, 2023, Saddler was named the head coach at Nicholls after Claunch departed to become an assistant coach at Alabama. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Nicholls Colonels (Southland)(2023–present) | |||||||||
2023–24 | Nicholls | 20–14 | 13–5 | 3rd | |||||
2024–25 | Nicholls | 7–4 | 2–0 | ||||||
Nicholls: | 27–18 (.600) | 15–5 (.750) | |||||||
Total: | 27–18 (.600) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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