After weeks of searching, men's basketball coach Pete Gillen finally completed the two vacancies on his staff by hiring John Fitzpatrick as an assistant coach and Mark Byington as director of basketball operations.
Fitzpatrick spent the last four seasons at the University of Houston, the last two as associate coach. He was an assistant at Navy in the 1980s when David Robinson played there and also served as an assistant coach at Fordham, Wichita State and Ball State.
Byington spent the last two seasons as assistant coach at the College of Charleston. He has a master's degree from the University of Virginia and served as a student manager for Gillen in 1999-00 and 2000-01.
Gillen had previously made offers to former Clemson coach Larry Shyatt and East Carolina coach Bill Herrion, but both turned down the offer. Shyatt accepted a position on Billy Donovan's staff at Florida and Herrion elected to stay at ECU.
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