Drew Valentine’s 1st Loyola basketball coaching staff includes former assistants from South Alabama and Cincinnati and a former Division I head coach

Loyola basketball coach Drew Valentine announced his first staff Tuesday.

Assistant coaches Amorrow Morgan, Sean Dwyer and Patrick Wallace, special adviser to the head coach Dan Hipsher, director of basketball operations London Dokubo and video coordinator C.J. Rivers will make up the bench for Valentine, who was promoted April 5 after Porter Moser took the Oklahoma job.

Morgan spent the last four seasons as an assistant at South Alabama, including the last two as associate head coach. Dwyer spent the previous two seasons as a Cincinnati assistant after a four-year stint at Northern Kentucky.

Wallace, a former graduate assistant at Northwestern, was Loyola’s video coordinator last season.

Hipsher — a former head coach at Division I programs Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Akron and Stetson and Division III Wittenberg — was Oakland’s associate head coach the last five seasons. He was a longtime assistant at Dayton (1980-89) and also worked as an assistant at Arkansas, South Florida and Alabama.

Dokubo, a former Loyola guard (2011-15), will be on staff for a third season, continuing as director of basketball operations. Rivers, who played at Drake (2014-18), was a two-year graduate assistant at Colorado State.

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