A familiar face has rejoined Kansas men’s basketball ahead of the 2023-24 campaign.
Doc Sadler, a longtime head coach at Arkansas-Fort Smith, UTEP, Nebraska and then Southern Miss, who spent the 2012-13 season as KU’s director of basketball operations, has been hired on again as an analyst, Kansas Athletics announced Wednesday.
The well-traveled Sadler has served 12 additional stints as an assistant of one kind or another, including most recently at a familiar Big 12 Conference foe — last season he served as a special advisor to the head coach at Oklahoma.
Prior to that the Arkansas native spent three years back on staff at Nebraska, where he had a decade earlier guided the Cornhuskers through the tail end of their Big 12 tenure.
On the whole, Division I teams with Sadler as head coach have made six postseason appearances, including an NCAA Tournament trip for UTEP in his first season at the helm of the Miners (2004-05).
The news comes as KU prepares to play its first game in Puerto Rico against a Puerto Rico Select Team, Thursday at 11 a.m. Central Time.
