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First Arkansas Fruit Just Dropped Off The John Calipari Coaching Tree

It only took one year for John Calipari’s coaching tree to grow an Arkansas branch.

Darin Minniefield, who served as a graduate assistant under the Hall of Fame coach at Kentucky and with the Razorbacks, has been hired as an assistant coach at Nicholls State.

The Colonels are led by third-year head coach Tevon Saddler, who has guided his alma mater to its first back-to-back 20-win seasons in school history and consecutive third-place finishes in the Southland Conference.

It will be Minniefield’s first full-time gig at the college level. Prior to becoming a GA, he coached in the Houston Defenders AAU organization and worked with John Lucas Enterprises.