We’re one for two on retaining impactful basketball people named Evans. Good stuff on the one that’s staying.
His name is Lamont Evans, and at 39, he’s one of the most respected recruiters in the business. Evans is now the associate head coach at Oklahoma State; he left South Carolina in 2015 to join Brad Underwood’s staff in Stillwater. But had he not been on Frank Martin’s staff through the first four years of Martin’s tenure at South Carolina, it’s possible All-American Sindarius Thornwell would have gone to NC State instead of SC, and it’s highly likely McDonald’s All-American P.