RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky University head men’s basketball coach Jeff Neubauer announced today that Everick Sullivan has been promoted to associate head coach.

Sullivan has almost 10 years of experience as a collegiate basketball coach, including the last two seasons at Eastern Kentucky where he has helped the Colonels average 19 wins per year and advance to the 2010 Collegiate Basketball Invitational postseason tournament.

“Everick has done a tremendous job at EKU over the last two years,” Neubauer said. “He came to us with a wonderful reputation as a coach and has lived up to that reputation every day on the job in Richmond. Promoting Everick to associate head coach makes a lot of sense because this shows people outside of the program that I’m confident in his abilities to lead our student-athletes. Everick has a great presence as a coach and has a great future in our profession.”

In four years as a head coach, Sullivan compiled an overall record of 107-26 (.804) at Vincennes (Ind.) University (2005-08) and Lincoln Trail College (Ill.) (2004-05). Sullivan led Vincennes to back-to-back National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) tournament appearances in 2007 and 2008.

The native of Simpsonville, S.C., played collegiate basketball at the University of Louisville under Hall of Fame head coach Denny Crum from 1988-92. He played in three NCAA tournaments and is among the Cardinals’ all-time leaders in scoring (15th), assists (ninth) and dunks (10th).

After earning a bachelor’s degree in communications, Sullivan went on to play eight years of professional basketball in Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Cyprus and Lebanon. In 1998, his team won the Cyprus league championship and he was voted MVP.

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Eastern Kentucky University – Announced the promotion of Everick Sullivan to associate head men’s basketball coach.