The Allen males’s basketball workforce seemed throughout the SIAC for its subsequent chief.
Longtime Morehouse males’s basketball coach Douglas Whittler is shifting to Columbia, South Carolina, to turn into the Yellow Jackets’ subsequent males’s basketball coach.
A former All-SIAC First Workforce choice with the Morehouse males’s basketball workforce, Whittler started teaching as an assistant with the Maroon Tigers in 2009.
He served as an assistant for six seasons earlier than, together with a 2013 season through which he helped lead Morehouse to the SIAC championship recreation.
Whittler was then promoted to affiliate head coach in 2015 earlier than being named interim head coach in 2021 following the premature passing of former longtime head coach Grady Brewer.
Throughout this tenure as head coach, Whittler led the Maroon Tigers to a 76-40 total document, together with three consecutive SIAC East division titles.
Whittler fills a task left vacant by Andre Payne, who was employed by Allen in April, solely to return to his earlier job as girls’s basketball coach at Talladega Faculty with the added position of athletic director.
In its second season as an official member of the SIAC this previous yr, Allen completed with a 6-22 total document.
