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Kansas basketball assistant coach Jerrance Howard to join Longhorns

One of college basketball’s elite recruiters is joining Chris Beard’s coaching staff.

Kansas assistant Jerrance Howard, well-regarded as an elite basketball recruiter, is heading to Austin to join new head coach Chris Beard’s staff.

Howard, who spent eight years in Lawrence, is leaving the Jayhawks to become an assistant coach at Texas, Kansas head coach Bill Self announced Tuesday evening. Howard is the fourth coach Beard has hired since arriving at Texas last week and will join assistants Chris Ogden, Ulric Maligi and Rodney Terry.

“Working for coach Self and being a part of Kansas basketball has been a true privilege that I will always be grateful for,” Howard said in a University of Kansas press release. “As I look forward to my next career opportunity, I thank God for the amazing players, staff, and community I have been blessed to know during my eight seasons at KU.”

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Self, who also coached Howard as a player at Illinois, expressed a similar sentiment.

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“I want to thank Jerrance for all of his hard work and dedication to Kansas men’s basketball over the past eight years,” Self said. “I was fortunate to coach him at Illinois and loved the opportunity we had to coach together here at KU. He has been a member of our great staff and instrumental in the development of many players over his eight seasons. I would like to express my appreciation to Jerrance, his wife Jessica, as well as JJ and Jaya. We certainly wish them all the best.”

Howard spent three years as an assistant at Illinois before joining SMU in 2012, where he worked alongside Maligi for his one season with the Mustangs. He then joined Kansas in 2013, where he spent the next eight seasons.

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Howard was instrumental in recruiting top-tier talent to Kansas, including former five-star forward Cliff Alexander and former five-star guard Quentin Grimes. 247Sports also credits him with recruiting seven four-star recruits to the Jayhawks over his eight seasons. Beard heavily emphasized recruiting during his introductory press conference last week.

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