Final Four team member joins Power Five coaching staff

Former Wichita State Shocker Carl Hall dunks.After Carl Hall completed his eligibility at Wichita State, he went back and forth for several years with one of his former coaches, Chris Jans, every offseason about whether or not he would make the decision to take up coaching.

Now, instead of grabbing rebounds and scoring the rock for the Shockers and professional teams overseas, Carl Hall is now a graduate assistant coach at Mississippi State. He was asked by Jans to join his staff at Mississippi.

“It means the world [to] play for your mentor [and] now join his coaching staff,” Hall said.

Hall was a part of the 2012-13 men’s Final Four team in Atlanta. To get there, they beat Pittsburgh,…