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as assistant for the 2004-05 season, but left the program after head coach Glynn Cyprien’s hiring was rescinded because of an inaccuracy in Cyprien’s resume.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