New Mens Basket Ball Coach to be introduced
According to Southern Digest...
@southerndigiest: Asst. Coach Roman Banks informed SLU officials and the team friday he will take the SU men's basketball job.
Outside of this tweet…no official announcement has been made. Southern’s Interim Athletic Director Sandy Pugh did state that a Press Conference will be held May 1st to formerly announce the new coach. May 1st will confirm or debunk this rumor now lets take a look at Mr Roman Banks.
Roman Banks, who has served as Southeastern Louisiana University’s top men’s assistant basketball coach the past six seasons, begins his fourth year as the Lions’ Associate Head Coach.
Banks, who has been part of a staff that has won 106 games since his arrival in 2003, played a vital role in the Lions’ defensive effort in 2004-05 as Southeastern finished fourth in the nation in scoring defense (55.8) and produced the school’s first-ever Southland Conference Tournament championship and berth to the NCAA Championships.
Since his arrival in Hammond, Banks has played a key role in the recruitment of several of the Lions’ standout players, highlighted by 2005-06 SLC Player of the Year Ricky Woods, along with All-Conference selections Daryl Cohen, Kevyn Green and Terry Bryant.
Regarded as one of the top recruiters in the state of Louisiana, Banks spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Southern University where he served as the Jaguars’ chief recruiter. While at Southern, he was responsible for the recruitment of two-time Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year Adarrial Smylie and Dionte Harvey, the 1997-98 SWAC Newcomer of the Year.
While at Southern, he was responsible for the recruitment of two-time SWAC Player-of-the-Year Adarrial Smylie and Dionte Harvey, who was named the SWAC Newcomer of the Year in 1997-98.
Banks, who played at Northwestern State and was the Demons’ point guard in its upset win against Kentucky at Rupp Arena, finished his career as the school’s all-time leader in assists while ranking second in steals and seventh in scoring. He led the Demons in four categories as a senior in 1991-92, including a 16.2 scoring average, and was named honorable mention All-Southland Conference and was a third-team All-Louisiana selection by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
Banks was named to the All-Southland Conference second team in 1989-90 after averaging 14.7 points and dishing out a career-high 157 assists helped the Demons to their first winning season in five years and helped the team establish 23 school records while leading the nation in team scoring averaging 95.0 points per game.
Banks started his coaching career at Shreveport’s Green Oaks High School before spending two years at Southern University-Shreveport, where he was the Athletic Director and head men’s basketball coach.
A native of Shreveport, Banks was a three-time All-District 2-4A selection at Captain Shreve High School where he averaged 22.7 points and 7.6 assists as a senior in helping lead the Gators to a 28-7 record.
Banks, a member of the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches, is married to the former Tiffaney McCoy, a school teacher in the Tangipahoa Parish School System. They are the parents of two children, son Tre’lun (15) and daughter Kennedi?(9).
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