As Luke wrote up yesterday, Butler men’s basketball announced Thad Matta as the new head coach yesterday, ending his tenure as Mike Woodson’s Associate Athletic Director for Men’s Basketball Administration.
Both Matta and former assistant coach Dane Fife were brought to Bloomington seemingly to help Woodson adapt to the college game in his first year coaching at this level with their wealth of experience in the conference and recruiting the Midwest.
While the Fife experiment didn’t quite work out, Woodson wasn’t shy about his reliance on Matta in his first couple of months on the job.