Nate Pomeday’s favorite place to play college basketball when he was at Northwestern University was Minnesota’s Williams Arena, and now he’s back — this time as a coach.
Pomeday returned to the arena last year as director of basketball operations for Minnesota, and on May 19 head coach Richard Pitino promoted him to assistant coach.
The trip back to the Big Ten took plenty of twists and turns for Pomeday, from taking control of a new basketball program at a very young age to becoming a Division I assistant and juggling those responsibilities while caring for a sick child.