NBA veteran Donyell Marshall joins Oats’ UB staff

John’s University aide Jim Whitesell and 15-year NBA veteran Donyell Marshall as his top assistant coaches Thursday.

The 6-foot-9 Marshall, a former Big East Conference Player of the year for Connecticut, joins UB after spending the past two years as an assistant at Rider.

The third member of the assistant staff is Bryan Hodgson, a Jamestown native who spent the past two years as an aide at Midland College, a top junior college program in Texas.

Whitesell, 55, brings 33 years of coaching experience to Oats’ staff.

Previously, he spent seven years as head coach at Loyola Chicago, where he went 109-106.

Whitesell has been a head coach for 24 years overall.

Marshall will coach big men for UB.

His experience in the NBA will help him with recruiting and he will be able to work both with our big men and our shooters.

He has known O’Field, a Cleveland native, since O’Field’s freshman year of high school.