Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Men's Basketball

Southern Illinois University named Scott Nagy (NAY-gee) the 15th men’s basketball coach in the program’s history on March 28, 2024. Nagy holds a career 591-351 (.627) record and ranks No. 17 in wins among active Division I head coaches. Nagy brought with him nearly three decades of coaching experience, most recently with eight years at Wright State before coming to Carbondale. Nagy was named Horizon League Coach of the Year three times, led the Raiders to 20-plus wins in five seasons, and tallied 18 wins in the shortened 2021 campaign. He guided WSU to three Horizon League regular-season championships, two Horizon League tournament championships, a pair of NCAA Tournament berths, and one NIT bid. In his first season at Wright State in 2017, he led the program to its first 20-win season since 2008. Building on that success in his second season, Nagy took the Raiders to their first NCAA Tournament in a decade and earned his first Horizon League Coach of the Year Honor. Nagy repeated as Coach of the Year in year three, taking the Raiders to the NIT after tying for the league’s regular season title. In 2019, he won a school-record 25 games on his way to WSU’s first outright League title in program history, while earning his third-consecutive Horizon League Coach of the Year award. He led Wright State to a Horizon League tournament championship in 2022 – with wins over No. 1-seeded Cleveland State and No. 3 Northern Kentucky. The Raiders won their First Four game in Dayton over Br

Darreon Reddick enters his second season at Southern Illinois in 2025-26 after being hired in April of 2024. He was promoted to assistant coach in July of 2025. Reddick is entering year two with the Saluki basketball program. Reddick spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach at SIU Edwardsville, helping the Cougars to a 17-16 overall record and a semifinal appearance in the OVC Tournament. He also helped two players to OVC All-Conference honors. ad State. Reddick spent two seasons at Missouri S&T, helping the Miners to 27 wins over two years. Before his time in Rolla, Reddick was an assistant at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid for two years. Missouri S&T was 16-12 in 2022-23, its first winning season in 27 years. Reddick served as interim head coach for the last 5 games of the 22-23 season going 3-2 with key wins against UMSL and GLVC tournament champion McKendree. A native of Belleville, Illinois, Reddick's responsibilities included academic oversight, recruiting, scouting, travel, weightlifting and player development at both institutions. Reddick also recruited Missouri S&T`s leading scorer and rebounder Ikenna Okeke. Reddick played four seasons at Tennessee State where he averaged 7.4 points and 2.7 rebounds per game from 2014-2018. He played in 121 games, making 103 starts during his career. He finished his career with 169 assists, 75 steals and eight blocked shots. Reddick connected on 119 shots from three-point range, where he shot 33.1 percent for his career. He sc

Jevon Mamon (pronounced MAY-mun) will enter his sixth season as an assistant coach at SIU, and his first under head coach Scott Nagy after being retained on the coaching staff. He was initially hired at SIU on April 17, 2019. Mamon is no stranger to the Salukis, spending the last five seasons as an assistant coach with the program. During his time in Carbondale, Mamon helped SIU to 86 wins and four wins over Power 6 programs. Mamon was instrumental in signing one of the best recruiting classes in school history. Troy D'Amico and Scottie Ebube were both ranked as top-10 players in the state of Illinois, and D'Amico was the highest-rated in-state recruit to sign with SIU since 2008. Foster Wonders, the runner-up for Michigan Mr. Basketball in 2021 and the No. 5 ranked player in the state of Michigan, also signed with SIU. In the offseason, Ben Coupet Jr., who averaged double-figures on a conference-title-winning Little Rock team in 2020, signed with SIU as a graduate transfer. In Mamon's first season at SIU, the Salukis outperformed the preseason expectations of ESPN's BPI, KenPom, Sagarin, Norlander, and Sports Illustrated. SIU returned only three players from the previous year's team, but the team won 10 MVC games anyway, the most ever by a team that had been picked last in the league's preseason poll. The Salukis ran off 10-straight home wins and seven-straight MVC wins during the season, both of which were the longest for the program since 2007. The Salukis found success wi

Justin Endsley, originally from Normal, Illinois, enters his third season with the Saluki basketball program in a full-time capacity ahead of the 2025-26 season. He spent his first two seasons as the Director of Men's Basketball Operations before being elevated to Deputy Assistant to the Head Coach in July of 2025. In this role, Endsley works closely with the coaching staff daily, oversees the student managers, organizes recruiting visits, and collaborates with various departments within SIU Athletics, including facilities and academics. He is also responsible for planning travel, coordinating weekly schedules, managing camps, and facilitating community outreach initiatives. Endsley continues to contribute to the basketball program after serving as a student manager for four years from 2019 to 2023. After his sophomore year, he was promoted to the position of head manager. During the summers of 2022 and 2023, Endsley was one of only five individuals nationwide to serve as a college host at the National Student Leadership Summit, an event sponsored by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), which governs high school sports across the country. Endsley graduated from SIU in May 2023 with Magna Cum Laude honors, earning a bachelor's degree in sports administration.

Primary Responsibilities: Defensive Coordinator, NIL Coordinator Steve Hawkins joined the Saluki basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in April 2024 and was promoted to associate head coach in March 2025. In addition to his regular coaching responsibilities, Hawkins serves as the program's defensive coordinator on game days and manage the Salukis' NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) efforts. Hawkins made an immediate impact during his first season with the program. After assuming the role of defensive coordinator in early January, the Saluki defense showed significant improvements in protecting the rim and the paint. Initially, SIU ranked last nationally in paint defense after the first five MVC games. However, by the end of the final 15 games of league play, they improved to within the top 100 nationally for opponent field goal percentage at the rim (82nd – 59.8%). The team's paint defense saw an even more dramatic improvement, rising from 364th nationally—where opponents shot 58.9 percent in the paint—to 20th nationally, as opponents finished the season shooting only 34.8 percent in the paint. Hawkins brought with him to Carbondale nearly four decades of coaching experience to SIU, including 28 years as a head coach. His most recent position was at Quincy University, following almost two decades at Western Michigan. During his 17 seasons as the head coach of the Broncos, Hawkins achieved 291 victories and led Western Michigan to the NCAA Tournament twice, making seven tot

Primary Responsibilities: Offensive Coordinator Tae Gibbs is entering his second season at Southern Illinois, after been hired in April 2024 as an assistant ...

In his first season with Saluki basketball, Will Veasley was named an assistant under Scott Nagy in April of 2024. No stranger to the Missouri Valley Conference, Veasley was most recently an assistant coach at UIC for the last three seasons under Luke Yaklich during UIC's transition to The Valley. Prior to his time in Chicago, Veasley joined the staff at North Dakota State as an assistant coach before the start of the 2016-17 campaign and helped turn the Bison into one of the top teams in the Summit League. NDSU posted winning records in three of Veasley's four years, highlighted by back-to-back conference championships. During the 2018-19 year, the Bison captured the conference title and defeated North Carolina Central in the NCAA First Four before falling to eventual Elite 8 participant Duke. The Bison repeated as conference champions and were bound for the NCAA Tournament once more after compiling a 25-8 record and a 13-3 mark in league play during the 2019-20 season. Veasley is the all-time winningest player in Butler history and was a starter on the Bulldogs' 2010 national runner-up team. As a four-year letterwinner at Butler, Veasley helped his team make four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Final Four run in 2010. Veasley and the Bulldogs were the regular-season Horizon League champions for four straight years and won the Horizon League Tournament in 2008 and 2010. Following his collegiate career, Veasley played professionally for two years in Japan