Former Oklahoma City Thunder assistant coach, Anthony Grant, was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year earlier this week.
Grant led the University of Dayton to a 29-2 overall record, an Atlantic-10 regular-season championship, and a final ranking of No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25, matching the program’s highest finish from 1956.
The Flyers earned the top seed in the A-10 conference tournament and were in line for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament before both were canceled due to concerns stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
Grant returned to his alma mater, where he played from 1983-87, in 2017 after spending two seasons in Oklahoma City on Billy Donovan’s staff.
His stint with the Thunder marked the fourth time that Grant had worked under Donovan, dating back to the mid-1990s at Marshall University.
Prior to coming on as an assistant in OKC in 2015, Grant served as an assistant under Donovan for 10 years at the University of Florida, where he helped lead the Gators to their first national championship in 2006. The program won its second title in 2007 with players that Grant had recruited prior to taking the head coaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University.