Boyle To Coach NABC All-Stars West Squad At Final Four
March 28, 2017 | Men's Basketball
BOULDER – University of Colorado head men's basketball coach Tad Boyle will lead the West squad at the 2017 Reese's Division I College All-Star Game in Phoenix on Friday, March 31, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced on Tuesday.
The game will be played on Reese's Final Four Friday and is scheduled to tip at 4:35 MST at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and televised live on CBS Sports Network.
The rosters are composed of 21 of the nation's outstanding seniors in NCAA Division I. Highlighting Boyle's West team are a pair of familiar Pac-12 Conference standouts in UCLA guard Bryce Alford and Washington State forward Josh Hawkinson. Â Also joining the West team are Nathan Adrian (West Virginia), Sterling Brown (SMU), Deonte Burton (Iowa State), Paris Lee (Illinois State), Ben Moore (SMU), Luke Nelson (UC Irvine), DeWayne Rusell (Grand Canyon), Rashawn Thomas (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) and Derek Willis (Kentucky).
Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner will lead the East team. The East roster is comprised of Evan Bradds (Belmont), Troy Caupain (Cincinnati), Tyler Cavanaugh (George Washington), J.J. Frazier (Georgia), Jack Gibbs (Davidson), Tim Kempton (Lehigh), Moses Kingsley (Arkansas), London Perrantes (Virginia), Reggie Upshaw (Middle Tennessee) and Steve Vasturia (Notre Dame).
Coaching the Reese's NABC All-Stars is the just the beginning of a busy offseason for Boyle. Later this summer, he will serve as an assistant coach for the 2017 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup Team. Boyle will join Team USA for training camp in Colorado Springs June 18-25 and then head to Cairo, Egypt, for the World Cup, July 1-9.
Boyle recently completed his seventh season at Colorado, leading the Buffaloes to a 19-15 record and seventh place finish in the Pac-12. He guided Colorado to its seventh straight postseason appearances, a program best, as the Buffaloes qualified for the 2017 NIT. Boyle is 149-95 in seven seasons at Colorado, ranking third on the school's all-time wins list. He is 205-160 overall in 11 years as a collegiate head coach.