Pope lands with Pistons

By Staff     Aug 27, 2004

Bill Pope, a student manager on Kansas University’s 1988 national championship basketball team, has been named assistant coach/video coordinator for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.

Pope, head coach at Lincoln University from 1997-2003, will be reunited with coach Larry Brown — Pope’s boss at KU during the title season.

Pope has been an assistant at several schools — Lamar, Texas-San Antonio, Oral Roberts, Jacksonville, Western Kentucky, North Carolina A&T and Youngstown State.

He was ticketed to work at Louisiana-Lafayette as assistant for the 2004-05 season, but left the program after head coach Glynn Cyprien’s hiring was rescinded because of an inaccuracy in Cyprien’s resume.

Pope earned a degree in education at KU in 1988. He was a volunteer coach on Roy Williams’ KU staff during the 1989-90 season.

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