BATON ROUGE -- If Eric Musselman hadn't been an LSU assistant coach in 2014-15, there's a pretty good chance he wouldn't be back in the Maravich Assembly Center tonight to face the Tigers as the University of Arkansas head coach.
Musselman -- with an extensive NBA resume as a head coach at Golden State and Sacramento and assistant at Minnesota, Orlando, Atlanta and Memphis -- worked in college basketball for the first time as an Arizona State assistant during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.
Then came an offer to return to the NBA as an assistant coach with Minnesota again.