Alabama basketball assistant Ryan Pannone leaving to be Arkansas State head coach
Alabama assistant basketball coach Ryan Pannone is leaving to become the head coach at Arkansas State, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported on Saturday afternoon.
Pannone fills the vacancy left by the Red Wolves’ previous head coach Bryan Hodgson, another former Alabama assistant, after he left to be the head coach at South Florida earlier this week.
Pannone spent two years as an assistant at UA, joining in the 2024 offseason. He primarily dealt with the offensive scheme and gameplan as his coaching duties.
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Alabama head coach Nate Oats has now had five former assistants receive head coaching jobs during his time in Tuscaloosa, including Pannone (Arkansas State), Hodgson (South Florida), Antoine Pettway (Kennesaw State), Austin Claunch (UTSA) and Charlie Henry (Georgia Southern).
Oats will now have to search for a new assistant coach for the third offseason in a row.
The news comes just hours before 2-seed Alabama takes on 1-seed Duke in the Elite Eight, which will tip at 7:49 p.m. CT on TBS and truTV tonight.
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