Familiar Territory: Ernie Kent Returns to Pac-12 With Washington State

January 3rd, 2015 - 10:57

Former Oregon coach Ernie Kent returned to the Pac-12 Conference in a similar capacity at Washington State. After retirements and realignments, Kent joins the following alphabetical list of active coaches who were bench bosses of two different schools in the same DI conference:

Active Coach Conference First School Second School
Casey Alexander Atlantic Sun Stetson (2012 & '13) Lipscomb (since 2014)
Cy Alexander Mid-Eastern Athletic South Carolina State (1988-2003) North Carolina A&T (since 2013)
Horace Broadnax Mid-Eastern Athletic Bethune-Cookman (1998-2002) Savannah State (since 2006)
Keith Dambrot Mid-American Central Michigan (1992 & '93) Akron (since 2005)
Bill Herrion America East Drexel (1992-99) New Hampshire (since 2007)
Barry Hinson Missouri Valley Missouri State (2000-08) Southern Illinois (since 2013)
Bob Huggins Big 12 Kansas State (2007) West Virginia (since 2013)
Donnie Jones Conference USA Marshall (2008-10) UCF (since 2011)
Ernie Kent Pac-12 Oregon (1998-2010) Washington State (since 2015)
Kevin Nickelberry Mid-Eastern Athletic Hampton (2007-10) Howard (since 2011)
Jimmy Patsos Metro Atlantic Athletic Loyola MD (2005-13) Siena (since 2014)
Bruce Pearl Southeastern Tennessee (2006-11) Auburn (since 2015)
Keith Richard Sun Belt Louisiana Tech (1999-2001) Louisiana-Monroe (since 2011)