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Ex-Illini McClain to coach Swarm

CHAMPAIGN — Sergio McClain wants to coach. That much is clear.

A season as an assistant at Champaign Central under his father, the late Wayne McClain, was the former Illini’s reintroduction to the sidelines four years after his one-season stint at Parkland.

A year as the interim head coach at Central followed.

Then a season at Dade Christian School in Miami last year after the Maroons’ job went to Jeff Finke.

Now McClain is returning to Champaign to lead the Champaign Swarm in the Midwest Professional Basketball Association.

“They reached out,” McClain said about MPBA commissioner Ed Schumer and associate commissioner A.