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Kevin Keatts completes staff with Arizona State assistant Joel Justus

Kevin Keatts is filling the vacancy left on his coaching staff by the departure of James Johnson with Joel Justus, who spent the past season as an assistant at Arizona State. Prior to his time with the Sun Devils, he spent he spent seven years working for John Calipari at Kentucky.

Coincidentally, Justus is a UNC-Wilmington alum, though he was there well before Keatts’ time. Played for Brad Brownell, in fact. Justus has a good reputation as a recruiter and Calipari had plenty of praise for him when he left Lexington.

I found this part of his bio interesting as well:

A 2004 graduate of UNC Wilmington, Justus joined the [Kentucky] staff for the historic 2014-15 season as the director of analytics.