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Michigan State basketball promotes two staff members to assistant coaches

Jon Borovich and Austin Thornton have been promoted to assistant coaches

Michigan State basketball announced several new coaching changes on Thursday in a big day for the program. The moves were headlined by the hiring of Saddi Washington as a new assistant head coach. Doug Wojcik was also elevated to associate head coach. Tom Izzo made two other changes to his staff, elevating Jon Borovich and Austin Thornton to assistant coaches.

Jon Borovich was the Director of Recruiting Operations since 2022.

Austin Thornton was a former team captain for the Spartans who re-joined the program back in 2021 as a video coordinator.

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Potential candidates to replace Dwayne Stephens on MSU basketball’s staff

Check out some possible candidates to replace Dwayne Stephens on Tom Izzo’s staff

Tom Izzo’s top assistant, Dwayne Stephens, is leaving the Michigan State program after being hired as the head coach of Western Michigan. Stephens had been by Izzo’s side for the past 19 seasons, but has now decided to make the jump into leading his own program.

Now, Izzo has the opportunity to reinforce his staff with a new hire. The question now becomes, will Izzo bring back a familiar face or will he branch out and bring fresh blood to the program.

We examined some of the possible candidates, both familiar faces and new blood, that could fill the open assistant role on Michigan State’s bench: