TROY, Ala. –\u00a0Troy men’s basketball has\u00a0finalized\u00a0its coaching staff ahead of the 2026-27 season with the addition of assistant coach Bryen Spriggs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spriggs joins the Trojans after a five-year stint with UTEP, where he\u00a0assisted\u00a0in three winning seasons and a run to\u00a0the 2024 Conference USA Tournament Championship game.\u00a0UTEP led the nation in steals per game (11.4) and turnovers forced per game (18.7) during the 2023-24 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I am really excited to announce Bryen Spriggs as an assistant coach for us here at Troy,”\u00a0head coach Adam Howard said. “Bryen has a ton of experience throughout his career, including being a head coach in his home state of Pennsylvania.\u00a0He’s\u00a0as connected as they come, and his relationships along with his work ethic will bring immediate and future success to our program.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spriggs helped the Miners record their first 20-win season in seven years during the 2021-22 campaign. UTEP also earned its first postseason berth since 2015, earning a bid to\u00a0The Basketball Classic, where the Miners defeated Western Illinois for their first postseason victory since 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to UTEP, Spriggs spent a season at Abilene Christian, serving as a special assistant to the head coach. The Wildcats went 24-5 overall and 13-2 in\u00a0Southland\u00a0Conference play\u00a0en\u00a0route to capturing the Southland Tournament championship. ACU then upset No. 3-seeded\u00a0Texas, 53-52, in the NCAA Tournament for the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament victory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Since the moment I stepped onto Troy’s campus, I could\u00a0feel\u00a0the pride and standard of excellence that defines the university,”\u00a0Spriggs said. “Having the opportunity to learn from and build alongside Coach Howard made this a complete\u00a0no-brainer\u00a0for me. His vision for the program and genuine care for\u00a0the\u00a0young men on the team is exactly what you want to be a part of.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spriggs was the head coach at the Community College of Beaver County in Monaca, Pa., from 2017-20, where he also served as athletic director.\u00a0During his three seasons at CCBC, the Titans compiled a 75-12 record, captured two WPCC\u00a0championships,\u00a0and produced nine all-conference selections.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to this, Spriggs\u00a0held assistant coach positions at Mineral Area College in Missouri (2016-17), and Lincoln Trail Community College in Illinois (2015-16).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spriggs has also held a variety of roles throughout his career, both in and out of basketball, including assistant director of admissions at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (2014-15), assistant coach and drug and alcohol counselor at Summit Academy School for Boys in Herman, Pa. (2013-14), case manager at Franklin County Children Services in Columbus, Ohio (2013), and criminal justice professor and assistant coach at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa (2012-13).\u00a0<\/p>\n
A native of Philadelphia, Pa., Spriggs played at Slippery Rock University for two seasons (2008-10),\u00a0while\u00a0spending\u00a0two as\u00a0graduate assistants\u00a0(2010-12).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spriggs\u00a0earned a bachelor’s degree in professional studies with a concentration in sport management and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Slippery Rock University.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, Ala. –\u00a0Troy men’s basketball has\u00a0finalized\u00a0its coaching staff ahead of the 2026-27 season with the addition of assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-836521","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\/836521","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=836521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}