Arizona legend Damon Stoudamire has been hired by LSU head coach Will Wade to be an assistant with the Tigers. Stoudamire and Wade coached against each other in the ACC in 2025-26. Stoudamire has 42 wins and 55 losses overall and 19 victories and 39 defeats in the ACC in three years at Georgia Tech.
Before his stint at Georgia Tech, Stouadmire won 71 games and lost 77 and had 34 victories and 47 defeats in the Big West as the head coach at Pacific from 2016 through 2021. The first college coaching job for Stoudamire was as an assistant under Arizona National Champion Josh Pastner at Memphis from 2011 through 2013.
Stoudamire left Memphis and returned to Arizona as an assistant coach under Sean Miller from 2013 through 2015. After two seasons at Arizona, Stoudamire returned to work under Pastner in his final season at Memphis in 2015-16. Pastner left Memphis for Georgia Tech, where he was eventually succeeded by Stoudamire…