Penn State basketball adding another assistant to Micah Shrewsberry’s staff

Penn State continues to build a basketball staff for new head coach Micah Shrewsberry, and they just added a coach with good connections.

Penn State men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry continues to add to his first coaching staff in Happy Valley. According to a report from Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, via Twitter, Penn State is preparing to welcome Mike Farrelly to the coaching staff in State College.

Farrelly will join Penn State after serving as an interim head coach at Hofstra for the 2020-21 season. He had spent the previous six seasons as an assistant coach for Hofstra. As noted by Thamel, the connections Farrelly brings with him to the Penn State staff in the northeast are a key part of the building process.

Farrelly is also familiar with the landscape of college basketball in the state of Pennsylvania. One of the positions Farrelly held prior to his time at Hofstra was as an assistant coach at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA, and he is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University, where he played for former head coach and current Michigan assistant Phil Martelli.

Shrewsberry is still putting the finishing touches on his first coaching staff at Penn State, but the focus on bringing in assistants with experience in player development at the NBA level and blending it with coaches with connections throughout the fertile northeast appears to be good building blocks for laying a new foundation for a Big Ten basketball program in desperate need of new life.

Penn State has lost a handful of players through the transfer portal this offseason, leaving Shrewsberry and his staff in a tough spot to get started. But with this new staff coming together, perhaps it will be what is needed to start from the ground up.

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