Michael Musselman

Biography

Michael Musselman enters his second season as an assistant coach at USC during the 2025-26, helping to guide the Trojans during their first season in the Big Ten Conference. Before arriving in Los Angeles, Musselman was on the staff for five seasons at the University of Arkansas, working his way up to becoming an assistant coach in the 2023-24 season. He started with the Razorbacks as the director of recruiting in 2019-20, before being named the assistant director of basketball operations for the 2020-21 season. He was eventually promoted to the director of operations for the 2022-23 season. While advancing through the ranks, Musselman played a crucial role in recruiting for the Razorbacks, helping the coaching staff secure the second-best recruiting class in the country in 2022. This class was highlighted by six players ranked among the ESPN and SI.com Top 100, including three McDonald’s All-Americans in Nick Smith Jr., Jordan Walsh and Anthony Black. Those three were all selected in the Top 40 of the 2023 NBA Draft. Arkansas was one of two college programs to have three players selected in the 2023 NBA Draft and the only one with two or more players selected in the Top 40. The year before, the Razorbacks brought in four transfers that were instrumental to the team’s second-straight Elite Eight run. Arkansas also finished that season eight in the AP Coaches Poll. In Musselman’s first year guiding the recruiting efforts, Arkansas had the fifth-best recruiting class, securing