By CHUCKIE MAGGIO
St. Bonaventure has hired former Atlantic 10 star Chris Lowe as an assistant coach, the school announced Friday.
Lowe joins Bona after a season on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley staff, where he served as an assistant to head coach Lew Hill. Prior to UTRGV, Lowe spent two years as a graduate student manager for former coach Travis Ford and the Saint Louis Billikens.
The Mount Vernon, N.Y. native ranks second in University of Massachusetts program history in career assists with 678 and fifth in minutes played with 3,703. He played in Amherst from 2005-2009, winning 49 games over a two-year span in his sophomore and junior seasons. After spending time in the NBA G-League he played professionally in Lithuania, Slovakia and Austria, a Lithuanian All-Star in 2011.
Lowe, 34, replaces 32-year-old Tray Woodall, who joined Fordham’s coaching staff last month. An up-and-coming young coach, Lowe will assume Woodall’s duties mentoring SBU’s talented guard group. Jaren Holmes and Kyle Lofton became all-conference players during Woodall’s tenure. Head coach Mark Schmidt hired Woodall in the summer of 2019 to replace Dwayne Lee, who left for Quinnipiac.
The Bonnies face Ford and the Billikens twice in the regular season.
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