{"id":548590,"date":"2026-03-18T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:14:09","slug":"chillious-invited-to-silver-waves-media-power-lunch-for-top-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548590\/","title":{"rendered":"Chillious Invited to Silver Waves Media Power Lunch for Top Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2013 Utah men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach <a href=\"https:\/\/utahutes.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/raphael-chillious\/4315\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4315\" target=\"_blank\">Raphael Chillious<\/a> has been invited to the 4th Annual Silver Waves Media Power Lunch at this year&#8217;s Final Four (April 2) in Indianapolis, Ind.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSince its inception, the power luncheon has connected the nation&#8217;s top-75 assistant coaches with director of athletics, men&#8217;s basketball sport supervisors and the top-5 search firms in college athletics \u2013 which has resulted in dozens of those in attendance becoming head coaches at the Division I level.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nChillious wrapped up his first season at Utah under first-year head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/utahutes.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/alex-jensen\/4314\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4314\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Jensen<\/a>. The Maryland native has been integral at every stop he&#8217;s had in his career \u2013 which includes Washington, Villanova, UConn and East Carolina. Chillious was also dominant at the prep level, coaching South Kent to multiple state championships.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA widely regarded evaluator and recruiter, Chillious has helped put together top-25 recruiting classes at every stop in his career. Prior to joining the Runnin&#8217; Utes in 2025-26, he served as an NBA Scout for the Memphis Grizzlies.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOf the 75 assistant coaches that will be on hand, eight hail from the Big 12 Conference \u2013 including Iowa State assistant JR Blount, who was recently named the head coach for the University of San Diego. The 2025 luncheon led to 12 assistants being hired on as head coach for the 2025-26 campaign \u2013 including two Power Conference programs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest news and information on the Runnin&#8217; Utes men&#8217;s basketball program, fans can stay connected online at <a href=\"https:\/\/utahutes.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.UtahUtes.com<\/a> and on social media by following @UtahMBB on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/utahmbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtahMBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/utahmbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. Fans can also stay connected on their mobile devices or tablets with the <a href=\"https:\/\/utah360.qrplanet.com\/o3ni9z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah 360 app<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2013 Utah men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach Raphael Chillious has been invited to the 4th Annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-548590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}