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Texas Basketball hires former Michigan assistant Luke Yakich

The highly regarded defensive whiz assistant was instrumental in Michigan’s success and now he’ll try to right Shaka Smart’s ship at Texas. The Wolverines were 63-15 in his two years there coordination John Beilien’s defense, which included a national title game appearance.

He worked his way up the ranks from high school and small time college basketball and has garnered quite a reputation as a pure teacher.