Witter named assistant basketball coach at West Virginia

West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries has named Cavel Witter assistant coach/video and scouting coordinator for the Mountaineers.

Last season, Witter served as assistant coach and director of operations at Drake. He helped the Bulldogs to 28 wins and a berth in the NCAA Tournament after Drake won the Missouri Valley Conference Championship.

“We are pleased to have Cavel join our team,” said DeVries. “As a former player of mine at Creighton and as an assistant coach at Drake, he brings great insight into how we do things every day. He has a very good feeling for the game and can pass that knowledge on to the players.”

Witter joined the Drake staff after two seasons at Georgia Southern, where he served as graduate manager.

Before Georgia Southern, he spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Lincoln University of Missouri, where he helped the program to 41 wins, including 18 in his first season, leading the team to a fourth straight postseason appearance and a trip to Central America. Intercollegiate athletics club tournament.

Witter was a three-year letterwinner at Creighton from 2007 to 2010, when DeVries was an assistant coach with the Bluejays. Witter holds the program record for consecutive free throws with 32. He was named to the MVC All-Bench team in 2008 and 2008. In the regular season finale, Witter scored 42 points in a double-overtime win over Bradley, setting a Quest Center Omaha Arena record and finishing eighth in Creighton’s all-time record book. Witter played in 101 career games and helped the Bluejays to 67 wins and three straight postseason trips.

After graduating from Creighton in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations, Witter played professionally in Portugal and Germany before competing in the G League for the Iowa Energy. He was named All-Bundesliga in 2013, a First Team All-Import selection in 2014 and the Eurobasket.com All-German team in 2015-2016.

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