Report: Mark Pope, Kentucky add Baylor assistant Alvin Brooks III to staff

Kentucky coach Mark Pope reportedly added Baylor assistant coach Alvin Brooks III to the Wildcats’ staff, according to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello.

“Kentucky’s Mark Pope is adding Baylor assistant Alvin Brooks III to his staff, sources told ESPN,” Borzello wrote on Twitter. “Brooks has worked under Scott Drew in Waco since 2016, spent the previous four seasons at Kansas State.”

Brooks coached nearly a decade under Scott Drew at Baylor, helping the team win the 2021 National Championship. Prior to that, Brooks was an assistant at Kansas State from 2012-16.

Brooks was in the assistant coach role since 2004 where he had stops at Arkansas-Fort Smith, Midland, Bradley and Sam Houston State before going to a Power Five school.

While at Midland, he was a two-time NJCAA champion as an assistant coach.

A former point guard at Midland and Idaho State, Brooks played college basketball from 1998-2002 before beginning his coaching career.

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