Meet Mike White's basketball staff
Monday, May 11, 2015 | Men's Basketball, Chris Harry
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- New Florida basketball coach Michael White, who was introduced Monday as the successor to Billy Donovan, has finalized his staff with all four assistants of his previous staff at Louisiana Tech now on boards with the Gators
The fourth, former Bulldogs associate head coach Dusty May, officially joined UF Thursday when he took himself out of the running to be White's successor back in Ruston. LA Tech players openly campaigned for the popular May to get the job. Instead, he's spent the last two days alongside White and the rest of the new Gators staff working with UF players during individual instruction drills and decided earlier in the day that Florida was where he wanted to be.
Here's an updated version of a story posted earlier this week, with bios of all the new Florida assistants.
This version includes May.
DUSTY MAY (Assistant coach)
From: Bloomington, Ind.
School: Indiana (2000)
Age: 38
Background: At LA Tech since 2009, serving alongside White's predecessor Kerry Rupp, and was elevated to associate head coach for the Bulldogs. ... Before going to Ruston, May spent two seasons at Alabama-Birmingham under Mike Davis, reaching a pair of NITs. He also held staff posts at Murray State and Eastern Michigan. ... May was a manager for four years at Indiana -- all under Coach Bobby Knight -- and assisted with video duties before being elevated to administrative assistant under Davis, who followed Knight at IU. 
DARRIS NICHOLS (Assistant coach)
From: Radford, Va.
School: West Virginia (2008)
Age: 28
Background: Worked one season at LA Tech after jumping to the Bulldogs by way of Wofford, where under Coach Mike Young the Terriers captured the Southern Conference Tournament championship and accompanying automatic NCAA berth. Wofford lost to Michigan in second-round play. ... Nichols coaching career started at Northern Kentucky, part of staff that helped transition the program from Division II into Division I. ... Nichols was a standout point guard at West Virginia under Coach John Belein, totaling 993 points, 399 assists and shooting 37.5 percent from the 3-point range in the Big East Conference, while becoming one of the five winningest players in program history. His Mountaineer teams advanced to an NCAA regional final in 2005 (losing to Louisville), the Sweet 16 in '06, and captured the NIT championship in '07. 
JORDAN MINCY (Assistant coach)
From: Memphis, Tenn.
School: Kent State (2009)
Age: 28
Background: Like Nichols, Mincy was at LA Tech one season, heading there after a season each at Toledo, College of Charleston and and his alma mater of Kent State. At Toledo, Mincy mentored point guard Julius Brown, a first-team All Mid-American Conference selection as the Rockets captured a share of their league title. At CofC, he was part of a staff that upset No. 21 Baylor in the regular season, finished 24-11 and went to the College Basketball Invitational. Mincy was part of a Kent State staff that led the team to a 25-win season and just the second MAC team in 48 years to win-to-back regular-season league titles. The Golden Flashes went to the NIT and reached the quarterfinals (one win shy of Madison Square Garden) with road upsets of Saint Mary's and Fairfield. ... Mincy played in 135 games at Kent State, more than anyone in program history, and helped lead the team to 93 wins and two NCAA Tournament berths. He left the Golden Flashes as their all-time assists leader and the 2009 MAC Defensive Player of the Year. 
KYLE CHURCH (Director of Basketball Operations)
From: Charlotte, N.C.
School: UNCC
Age: 26
Background: Held the same post the last two seasons at LA Tech. Former assistant coach at Chipola College in Marianna, Fla., a graduate assistant manager at LA Tech, and graduate assistant at Ole Miss at the end of White's stint there as an assistant coach. ... Church was a walk-on at UNCC -- he scored his first career points for 49ers when he hit a 3-pointer against Indiana at Assembly Hall -- and was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference honor roll.
