Tag: Jon Borovich

Understanding the Michigan State basketball coaching staff shake-up

Check out how the MSU coaching staff shakeup will affect who coaches which positions:

Michigan State head basketball coach Tom Izzo is quietly having a strong offseason, one that is seeing the head man make several moves that fans have been clamoring for. The latest coaching staff shake up is having some positive consequences per the reporting of 247Sports’ Justin Thind.

According to Thind, newly acquired Saddi Washington will be taking over the bigs, being joined by former Spartan standout Austin Thornton in the role.

In return, Jon Borovich and Thomas Kelley will work with the guards, while Doug Wojcik will take an oversight role.

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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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Michigan State basketball hires new Director of Recruiting

Tom Izzo has his new Director of Recruiting

Tom Izzo has filled the last void on his coaching staff ahead of the upcoming 2022-23 campaign. Izzo has tabbed Jon Borovich as his new director of recruiting.

Borovich has a lot of ties to the state of Michigan and MSU’s coaching staff. A native of Bloomfield Hills, Borovich played his college basketball at Central Michigan from 1997-2001. After his playing career, he was a graduate assistant at Michigan State from 2001-2003.

After Borovich’s stint as a GA at MSU, he has gone on to have a lengthy assistant coaching career in college basketball. He spent 2003-2005 as the director of basketball operations at Dayton and 2007-2011 as an assistant with the Flyers. In 2005-2007, Borovich was on Greg Kampe’s staff at Oakland. From 2011-2019, Borovich was an assistant coach at Northern Illinois under current Spartan assistant Mark Montgomery. Prior to joining MSU, he has spent the last 3 seasons on Chris Collins’ bench at Northwestern.

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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: