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Louisville men’s coach Pat Kelsey, Notre Dame men’s coach Micah Shrewsberry, University of Michigan men’s coach Dusty May and five other top-flight coaches highlight the agenda for the 2024 Indiana Basketball Coaches Association annual clinic.
Bellarmine University men’s coach Scott Davenport, University of Evansville men’s coach David Ragland, University of Michigan women’s coach Kim Barnes Arico, Transylvania University women’s coach Hannah Varel and Indiana Fever coach Christie Sides are other coaches who are part of the two-day program.
Doors open for the 2024 IBCA Clinic at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, April 25, and sessions run through 8:45 p.m. at Mt. Vernon High School in Fortville, the second consecutive year as the site for the gathering. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. at Friday, April 26, and sessions conclude about 3:10 p.m.
Cost to attend the clinic is $50 for current-year IBCA members and $100 for non-members.
In addition to the featured speakers, video sessions from the six IBCA district coaches of the year will be made available in an online format. Boys’ coaches offering online videos are Clint Swan of Crown Point, Matt Luce of Wapahani and Dave Benter of Brownstown Central. Girls’ coaches offering online videos are Eric Thornton of Norwell, Kaley May of Danville and Angie Hinton of Lanesville. Information about these coaches can be seen elsewhere in this e-Newsletter.
This year’s clinic again is in a Thursday evening-Friday format to avoid Saturday conflicts that have prevented coaches from attending the second day the past years. The lineup has been tweaked to again offer high-profile coaches across the agenda and conclude the second day of sessions at a more convenient time.
We hope to see you there.
Featured Speakers (in order of appearance)
Pat Kelsey, University of Louisville
Pat Kelsey, a proven program builder who’s won nearly 70 percent of his career games, was named the men’s basketball coach at the University of Louisville on March 28.
Kelsey has been highly successful in 12 seasons as a head coach, including the last three seasons at College of Charleston and the previous nine at Winthrop University. He boasts an impressive .681 win percentage (261-122) across his head coaching career with 11 total conference championships and four NCAA Tournament bids.
A Cincinnati native, Kelsey now is the 24th head coach in Louisville’s 110-year men’s basketball history.
This past season, Kelsey guided the College of Charleston to a 27-8 finish that included Colonial Athletic Association regular season and tournament titles as well as a No. 13 seed in the NCAA Tournament before falling to fourth-seeded and eventual national semifinalist Alabama.
During the season, the Cougars became the first team in seven years to win back-to-back CAA championships and Kelsey was named the league’s Coach of the Year while also having three players earn all-league honors and Bryce Butler win CAA Sixth Man of the Year.
A year earlier, Charleston went 31-4, was ranked as high as No. 18 in the Associated Press poll, won the program’s first CAA title since 2008 and saw Kelsey named a District Coach of the Year by both the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the United States Basketball Writers Association. He also was included on the Naismith Coach of the Year Watch List.
Kelsey moved to Charleston from Winthrop, where he became the fifth all-time winning coach in the history of the Big South Conference. He averaged 20.7 wins per game in nine seasons in Rock Hill, S.C., compiling more overall wins and conference wins than any other team in the league.
In his final season with the Eagles, the team went 23-2 – including a school-record 21-game win streak – with a Big South Tournament title, a trip to the NCAA Tournament and Kelsey was named 2021 Big South Coach of the Year. Kelsey previously guided Winthrop to NCAA Tournament berths in 2017 and 2020 (canceled due to the COVID-19).
A two-time finalist for the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award and finalist for the 2021 Jim Phelan Coach of the Year Award, Kelsey compiled a 186-95 (.662) overall record and an impressive 110-46 (.705) mark in conference play at Winthrop. The Eagles also won the Big South regular-season title in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. In all, 16 Winthrop players were selected all-conference, three were tabbed Big South Player of the Year, one was Big South Freshman of the Year and two collected MVP honors at Big South Tournament.
Prior to Winthrop, Kelsey served as associate head coach at from 2009-11 at Xavier, his alma mater. Before that, he worked at Wake Forest as assistant coach (2004-09) and director of basketball operations (2001-04). He began his coaching career at Elder High School in Cincinnati as an assistant from 1998-2001.
Kelsey graduated cum laude in 1998 from Xavier University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing. He began his collegiate playing career at the University of Wyoming, before transferring and playing three seasons at point guard for the Musketeers from 1995-98.
Kelsey and his wife, Lisa, have three children – Ruthie, Caroline and Johnny.
Christie Sides, Indiana Fever
Indiana Fever coach Christie Sides will give a presentation at the 2024 IBCA Clinic after guiding the team to a much improved 13-27 record in her initial building campaign. Both the coach and the team’s fans look for another step forward in her second season.
Sides was hired in November 2022 to be the ninth coach in Fever history.
A native of Baton Rouge, La., Sides has 21 completed seasons as a college and professional coach after a standout playing career at Central Private (La.) High School, the University of Mississippi and Louisiana Tech University.
Sides began her coaching career from 2000-02 as an assistant coach at Ruston (La.) High School. She then served as an assistant at Louisiana Tech from 2002-04 and LSU from 2004-07, helping the Tigers reach NCAA women’s Final Fours in 2005, 2006 and 2007 while working for Pokey Chatman.
Sides continued to work with Chatman from 2007-13 with the Spartak Moscow pro team, with the Slovakian Women’s National Team and with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky from 2011-16. Sides was a Northwestern University assistant coach in 2016-17. She then rejoined Chatman in the WNBA as an assistant with the Fever in 2018 and 2019. Sides was an assistant coach at Louisiana-Monroe from 2019-21 and was an assistant with the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream in 2022 before taking the top job with the Fever for 2023.
As a player, Sides was the 1995 Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year after scoring a school-record 3,375 career points at Central Private High School in Baker, La. She then went on to Mississippi, where she helped the Rebels to a 34-22 record over two seasons under coach Van Chancellor.
Sides moved to Louisiana Tech, sitting out the 1997-98 season as a transfer. She concluded her playing career by helping the Lady Techsters amass a 61-6 record in two seasons under coach Leon Barmore, including a berth in the 1999 NCAA women’s Final Four. She still holds the Louisiana Tech record for career 3-point accuracy at 44.8 percent.
Sides earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Louisiana Tech in 2000.
Micah Shrewsberry, University of Notre Dame
Micah Shrewsberry recently completed his first season as men’s head coach at the University of Notre Dame, guiding the Fighting Irish to a 13-20 finish that included a 7-13 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference. That gave him a 50-51 mark as a Division I head coach and a 65-99 overall slate as a college head coach.
Shrewsberry was appointed as ND’s 18th men’s basketball coach on March 24, 2023, succeeding longtime Irish mentor Mike Brey. Shrewsberry was hired after two seasons as head coach at Penn State, where he directed the Nittany Lions to a 37-31 record, including a 23-14 ledger, a Big Ten Tournament runner-up finish and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022-23.
That is just part of a coaching career that includes his being a part of staffs that have coached in two NCAA Final Fours, four other NCAA Tournaments, two NBA conference finals series and three other NBA playoff seasons.
Prior to his time with Penn State, Shrewsberry experienced two separate stints at Purdue – one as assistant coach from 2011-13 and another as associate head coach from 2019-21. Highlights include the 2020-21 season, in which Shrewsberry helped lead the Boilermakers to an 18-10 overall mark and an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. Another highlight from his time in West Lafayette includes the 2011-12 squad that produced a 22-13 record and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Between his Purdue stints, Shrewsberry spent six seasons with the NBA’s Boston Celtics as an assistant coach under Brad Stevens. During his tenure from 2013-19, the Celtics reached the playoffs in five consecutive seasons, including 2017 and 2017 appearances in the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Stevens connection was previously made at Butler University, where Shrewsberry spent one year as the director of operations then three as an assistant coach from 2007-11. With Shrewsberry on the sidelines, the Bulldogs compiled an 87-21 record, won two Horizon League regular-season championships, two HL Tournament titles and made three NCAA Tournament appearances. The NCAA trips include back-to-back national runner-up finishes in 2010 and 2011.
Shrewsberry started his coaching career in 1999-2000 as a graduate assistant at the University of Indianapolis. He was an assistant at Wabash College in 2000-01, then moved to rival DePauw University as an assistant from 2001-03. Shrewsberry was the director of basketball operations at Marshall University from 2003-05 and followed as men’s head coach at Indiana University-South Bend from 2005-07. He went 15-48 over two seasons with the Titans prior to joining Stevens and the Butler University staff in 2007-08.
A 1995 graduate of Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, Shrewsberry averaged 5.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists and being named Indianapolis Star honorable mention All-Metro while helping the Irish to a 23-3 record and regional runner-up finish as a senior. He matriculated to Hanover College, where he was a three-year starting guard and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1999. He later earned a master’s degree from Indiana State in 2003.
Shrewsberry and his wife, Molly, have four children – Braeden, 19, a current Notre Dame freshman basketball player; Nick, 16, a sophomore on the South Bend Saint Joseph Class 3A state runner-up team; Caitlin, 15; and Grace,11.
Dusty May, University of Michigan
Dusty May is the newly appointed men’s basketball coach at the University of Michigan following a six-season tenure at Florida Atlantic University where his Owls went 125-68, including a 24-8 finish and NCAA Tournament berth in 2023-24, as well as a 35-4 mark, a Conference USA championship and NCAA Final Four appearance in 2022-23.
May, hired at Michigan on March 24, guided FAU to a 14-4 mark in the American Athletic Conference this past season and stands as the program’s career leader in victories despite his short tenure at the school based in Boca Raton, Fla.
Becoming a head coach at FAU in 2018-19, May’s first squad went 17-16, earned a spot in the College Invitational Tournament and he was a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award. FAU followed with 17-15, 13-10 and 19-15 finishes over the next three seasons – including a 2022 College Basketball Invitational berth – before the Owls’ breakthrough campaign in 2022-23.
In 2022-23, May was named CBS Sports National Coach of the Year, NABC District 17 Coach of the Year, Conference USA Coach of the Year and Palm Beach County Coach of the Year.
A 1995 graduate of Eastern Greene High School in Bloomfield, Ind., May averaged 12.1 points, 5.9 assists and just 1.6 turnovers while keying the Thunderbirds to a 19-3 record as a senior point guard for coach Mark Barnhizer. May attended Oakland City University for one year, competing in basketball and cross country for the Mighty Oaks. He then transferred to Indiana University where he was an IU men’s student manager for Bob Knight from 1996-2000.
After graduating from Indiana in 2000, May was an administrative assistant/video coordinator at Southern California for Henry Bibby from 2000-02. He returned to IU in an administrative support role for Mike Davis from 2002-05 before becoming an assistant coach for Charles Ramsey at Eastern Michigan in 2005-06. He then was an assistant coach at Murray State for Billy Kennedy in 2006-07 and for Davis again at Alabama-Birmingham in 2007-09.
May served as an assistant coach and associate head coach at Louisiana Tech from 2009-15, two seasons for Kerry Rupp and four more for Mike White. In his final season with the Bulldogs, the team went 27-9 overall, claimed the C-USA regular-season title at 15-3 and went 17-0 at home. That came after a Western Athletic Conference title in 2013 and a first C-USA crown in 2014.
May then moved with White from Louisiana Tech to the University of Florida, helping the Gators post a 69-37 record with one postseason NIT spot and two NCAA Tournament berths in three seasons, before being hired by Florida Atlantic in March 2018.
May and his wife, Anna, have three sons – Jack, a redshirt junior guard at the University of Florida; Charlie, a redshirt freshman guard at the University of Central Florida; and Eli, a high school senior.
Kim Barnes Arico, University of Michigan
Kim Barnes Arico recently completed her 12th season as the University of Michigan women’s basketball coach, guiding the Wolverines to a 20-14 record, a 9-9 Big Ten mark and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
In her time at Michigan, she has become the program’s all-time winningest coach with a 261-133 ledger that includes a 119-85 Big Ten mark. Her tenure has included seven NCAA Tournament appearances, two Sweet Sixteen berths (2021, 2022), one Elite Eight finish (2022) and the 2017 Women’s NIT championship.
Barnes Arico has a career record of 531-339 in 27 seasons as a college head coach. That includes a 13-11 finish in 1996-97 at Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison in 1996-97, a 16-37 mark in 1997-99 at New Jersey Institute of Technology, a 65-24 ledger from 1999-2022 at Adephi University and a 176-133 record from 2002-12 at St. John’s. Her last season at Adelphi included a second-round appearance in the NCAA Division II national tournament. Her time at St. John’s included four NCAA Tournament berths, including a Sweet 16 spot in 2012, and three Women’s NIT appearances.
Barnes Arico, hired as Michigan’s ninth women’s basketball coach on April 20, 2012, was recognized as Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2022. She has had 12 players earn first-team all-Big Ten honors, five players collect Big Ten all-freshman team accolades and three players chosen Big Ten all-defensive team. She also guided the program’s all-time leading scorer in Katelynn Flaherty, the program’s first All-American and first Big Ten Player of the Year in Naz Hillmon and highest players chosen in the WNBA Draft (Hillmon in 2022 and Leigha Brown in 2023).
Barnes Arico earlier was named New Jersey Coach of the Year in 1999, New York Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2002, New York State Coach of the Year in 2005, 2010 and 2011 by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York, Big East Conference Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2012, and was a finalist for 2012 National Coach of the Year by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
She twice has served as on a coaching staff for USA Basketball, in 2014 for the Under-18 Women’s National Team and in 2015 for the Under-19 Women’s National Team. She also has been inducted into three halls of fame – the William Floyd High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007, the Adelphi University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Suffolk County Hall of Fame in 2020.
A native of Mastic Beach, N.Y., Barnes Arico helped lead Stony Brook University to the 1989 NCAA Division III national tournament as a freshman. She spent her final three seasons at Montclair State University in New Jersey, was the team’s leading scorer in 1990-91 and 1991-92, and graduating with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1993.
She was a teacher and coach for one year at the Academy of Saint Aloysius in Jersey City, N.J., and two additional years at Chatham High School in Chatham, N.J., before her first college position at Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison.
Barnes Arico and her husband, Larry Arico, are parents to three children – Trevor, Emma and Cecelia.
Hannah Varel, Transylvania University
Hannah Varel was appointed as the Transylvania University women’s basketball head coach on April 15 after working the past four seasons on the TU staff, including 2023-24 as associate head coach. She was promoted to the top spot after the departure of 10-year coach Juli Fulks, who was named the new head coach at Marshall University, an NCAA Division I program in Huntington, W.Va.
Varel, named the 2024 NCAA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, helped guide TU to a 105-8 record the past four seasons. That total included a 31-1 finish, an 18-0 ledger in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference and a spot in NCAA Division III national semifinals this past season. The success also included a 33-0 overall mark, another 18-0 HCAC finish and an undefeated NCAA Division III national championship in 2022-23.
Earlier, Varel, a 2023 WBCA Thirty Under Thirty honoree, helped the Pioneers go 14-6 overall and win the HCAC Tournament in a pandemic-altered season in 2020-21 that included no NCAA Tournament. She then helped the team record a 27-1 season with another HCAC championship and an NCAA Division III quarterfinal berth in 2021-22.
Varel joined the Pioneers from fellow HCAC member Hanover College, where she spent two seasons as an assistant coach. She previously spent three years as an assistant coach at Columbia (Ill.) High School while also working at PricewaterhouseCooper in St. Louis as an Assurance Senior Associate, managing 20 team members. During those years, she also served as a captain for the PwC basketball team that competed in an International Tournament in 2018 in Athens, Greece.
A 2011 graduate of Columbia High School in Columbia, Ill., Varel was an all-area player in suburban St. Louis in high school. She went on to the University of Missouri, where she earned bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in accounting in 2015. She later gained her CPA in the Missouri State Board of Accountancy. While in college, she was a four-year player for the Mizzou club basketball team that placed third in a national tournament in 2012.
Varel also currently is an adjunct accounting professor at Transylvania.
David Ragland, University of Evansville
David Ragland recently completed his second season as men’s basketball coach at the University of Evansville, leading the Purple Aces to a 16-17 record and 6-14 mark in the Missouri Valley Conference. Those results gave him respective two-year marks of 21-44 and 7-33 after a first season where he and his staff worked to lay a foundation for the future.
Ragland was named the 16th UE men’s basketball coach – and eighth coach at the NCAA Division I level – on May 24, 2022. The Aces provided Ragland a 78-74 road victory over Miami Ohio in his UE debut on Nov. 7, 2022, and the team has continued to make strides throughout his first two seasons. Off the court, Ragland has placed an emphasis on academics and those efforts culminated in the team earning the 2023 NABC Team Academic Excellence Award.
In a coaching career that has spanned nearly two decades, Ragland’s experience has seen him contribute to an impressive group of programs that includes Frank Phillips College, Vincennes University, Indiana State, Bowing Green, Northern Kentucky, Valparaiso University, Utah State and Butler University.
Ragland opened his coaching career as an assistant at Frank Phillips College, a Texas junior college where he was part of a staff that went 25-5 in 2004-05. He then was an assistant for three seasons at Vincennes University before becoming the Trailblazers’ head coach for two seasons, going 44-19 from 2008-10.
He then was an assistant coach from 2010-14 at Indiana State, where the Sycamores won 80 games, qualified for the 2011 NCAA Tournament and made three other postseason appearances. He was an assistant at Bowling Green in 2014-15 and Northern Kentucky in 2015-16, helping the Norse to a 24-11 record and an NCAA Tournament berth.
Ragland assisted at Valparaiso University from 2016-18, highlighted by the 2017 Horizon League regular-season title and a spot in the postseason NIT. He then assisted for three seasons at Utah State, where Aggies went 74-24 and made two NCAA Tournament appearances. He then returned to the Hoosier State as an assistant at Butler in 2021-22, serving as an assistant to LaVall Jordan, before being named the UE head coach.
A 1999 graduate of Evansville Harrison High School, Ragland was an IBCA honorable mention All-State selection as a senior when he helped the Warriors to a 21-3 season that included a semi-state appearance. He averaged 19.2 points, 4.2 assists and shot 40.5 percent from 3-point range that season en route to being named 1999 Evansville Metro Player of the Year by the Evansville Courier & Press.
He began his collegiate career with two seasons at Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, where his team went on to the NCAA Division II final four during his freshman year. He then transferred to the University of Southern Indiana, helping the Screaming Eagles to 47 victories over two seasons and leading the team in assists as a junior and senior.
Ragland and his wife, Annie, have two children – Ava and Joshua.
Scott Davenport, Bellarmine University
Scott Davenport became the 11th coach in Bellarmine University men's basketball history in April 2005. In 19 seasons, he has guided the Knights to a successful transition to NCAA Division I after 15 seasons of being an elite NCAA Division II program.
During his tenure, Bellarmine has posted a 421-171 overall record, including a 57-62 mark and a 34-29 Atlantic Sun Conference ledger the past four seasons in Division I. His total also includes a 364-109 record and a 192-65 Great Lakes Valley Conference slate in 15 earlier seasons in Division II.
At the Division I level, the Knights won the 2022 A-Sun Conference Tournament and played in the 2021 College Basketball Invitational. At the Division II level, Davenport’s teams captured the 2011 national title at 33-2, reached three other national final fours (2010, 2015, 2017) and qualified for 12 consecutive national tournaments (2009 through 2020) while winning six GLVC regular-season titles, five GLVC Tournament and posting 12 consecutive 20-win campaigns.
Since moving to Division I, Davenport was named a finalist for the 2021 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award and named a finalist for the 2021 and 2022 Hugh Durham Coach of the Year, which recognizes coaches from mid-major conferences.
Earlier, Davenport was named 2011 Division II national Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the Division II Bulletin. He also was chosen GLVC Coach of the Year four times (2011, 2012, 2017 and 2018). Also, Davenport has had five players named to Division II All-America squads (Braydon Hobbs, Jeremy Kendle, Jake Thelen, Rusty Troutman and Adam Eberhard), three players claim GLVC Player of the Year accolades (Kendle, Hobbs and Thelen) and one player cited as Division II National Player of the Year (Hobbs).
Prior to coming to Bellarmine, Davenport served nine years as an assistant coach at the University of Louisville under Denny Crum and Rick Pitino. He also served a year as an assistant coach on Mike Pollio’s staff at Virginia Commonwealth, where he coached alongside future Kentucky coach Tubby Smith.
Before heading to Louisville, Davenport spent 10 seasons as the boys’ varsity head coach at Louisville Ballard, where he amassed a 258-69 ledger that included the 1988 Kentucky state championship at 36-3. At Ballard, Davenport coached two future NBA players in DeJuan Wheat and Allan Houston, Kentucky’s 1988 Mr. Basketball.
After earning a degree in psychology from Louisville in 1978, Davenport served as an assistant coach at Louisville Ahrens (1978-80) and Louisville Ballard (1980-83) high schools. He was a graduate assistant coach at Louisville for two seasons (1983-85) before spending one year as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth (1985-86). Davenport followed as head coach at Ballard from 1986-96 before joining the Louisville staff from 1996-2005.
He earned a master’s degree in education from Louisville in 1985.
A Louisville native, Davenport and his wife, Sharon, have two adult sons – Russ and Doug, both Bellarmine graduates.
2024 IBCA Clinic itinerary
Mt. Vernon High School (8112 N. 200 W., Fortville, IN 46040)
As of April 15, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
| 5:00 p.m. | Registration Opens |
| 5:50 p.m. | Opening Remarks: IBCA president Michael Adams, Evansville Reitz |
| 6:00-6:50 p.m. | Pat Kelsey, University of Louisville |
| 6:55-7:45 p.m. | Christie Sides, Indiana Fever |
| 7:50-8:40 p.m. | Micah Shrewsberry, University of Notre Dame |
| 9:00-11:30 p.m. | IBCA Social, presented by D-One Camps |
Friday, April 26, 2024
| 9:00 a.m. | Registration opens |
| 9:45 a.m. | Awards Program #1 |
| 10:00-10:50 a.m. | Dusty May, University of Michigan |
| 10:55-11:45 a.m. | Kim Barnes Arico, University of Michigan |
| 11:50 a.m.-12:45 p.m. | Hannah Varel, Transylvania University |
| 12:50-1:20 p.m. | Awards Program #2 |
| 1:30-2:20 p.m. | David Ragland, University of Evansville |
| 2:20-3:10 p.m. | Scott Davenport, Bellarmine University |
| 3:10 p.m. | Door Prize drawings; clinic concludes |
