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Maryland basketball hires Kevin Broadus as assistant coach

April 21, 2017 at 1:11 p.m. EDT
Mark Turgeon. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)

Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon shook up his staff on Friday morning, naming former Georgetown assistant Kevin Broadus as an assistant coach.

Broadus, who served as a longtime assistant under former Hoyas Coach John Thompson III, will take over assistant coaching duties previously held by Cliff Warren, who will remain on Turgeon’s staff as Director of Player Development.

A Washington-area native who carries deep ties to the local recruiting scene, Broadus had spent nine of the past 13 seasons as an assistant at Georgetown, the most recent stint lasting six years under Thompson III, who was fired by the Hoyas in late March.

“We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to the Maryland Basketball family,” Turgeon said in a statement. “Kevin has a strong reputation as a tireless recruiter and is passionate about developing players on and off the court. He has extensive knowledge and experience as a coach and I am confident his ties to this region will be extremely valuable to our program.”

Between stints at Georgetown, Broadus spent two seasons as head coach at Binghamton from 2007 to 2009, a tenure that ended in tumultuous fashion after he was fired following a spate of recruiting violations and a number of off-the-court troubles involving several of his players. The NCAA eventually cleared the program of major violations and Broadus received a $1.2 million settlement with Binghamton in 2010, which stemmed from a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Broadus eventually landed back at Georgetown in 2011, where he served as one of Thompson III’s chief recruiters until the staff was replaced earlier this spring. The 53-year-old Broadus, who has recruited and coached five high school all-Americans and helped produce 11 NBA players during his career, has served on the coaching staffs at five schools in the area, including stints at Bowie State, the University of District of Columbia, American, George Washington and Georgetown.

His sixth stop will come in College Park, where he is expected to immediately help bolster the recruiting efforts led by assistants Dustin Clark and Bino Ranson, who celebrated the addition of Duke graduate transfer Sean Obi on Thursday.

“It is an honor and a privilege to work with Coach Turgeon,” Broadus said in a statement. “I have watched him from afar and really admire him. He has been very successful everywhere he has been. I am excited to be a part of this program and continue to build on the success they have had at Maryland.”

In a statement on Friday, Turgeon cited Warren’s “desire of tending to family matters” as one of the reasons behind the move. Warren and his wife, Jennifer, are expecting the birth of their second child in May. As director of player personnel, a position that did not previously exist, Warren will no longer recruit and provide on-court coaching after serving for three seasons as an assistant coach under Turgeon. He will instead help mentor players on and off the court.

“He has been an outstanding mentor and role model to our team,” Turgeon said of Warren. “Cliff will continue to play an integral role in supporting and guiding our student-athletes academically as well as helping them achieve success on and off the court.”