Nichols, an outstanding four-year performer for the Mountaineers for John Beilein and Bob Huggins, is now a first-year assistant coach on Mike White’s Gator staff. Nichols caught on with White during White’s tremendous run at Louisiana Tech, the Bulldogs winning the Conference USA title last season during Darris’ second season there as an assistant coach.
Prior to that, Nichols worked at Wofford and Northern Kentucky after starting his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach under Huggins at WVU in 2011.
“Huggs is the guy who gave me my start in the business, bringing me back after I was done playing as his grad assistant coach,” Nichols said earlier today.