Butler basketball to hire former player Ronald Nored as head coach

The Butler Bulldogs are hiring one of their own as their next head coach. According to Matt Norlander of CBS Sports , they are hiring former point guard Ronald Nored as their next head basketball coach. Nored played for them from 2008-12, helping lead them to back-to-back national championship games in 2011 and 2012.

He was named the Horizon Defensive Player of the Year twice before starting his coaching career. While he has been coaching since 2012, he has minimal experience at the collegiate level, serving as an assistant coach at Northern Kentucky from 2015-16. He has spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks and has also worked with the Boston Celtics (2014-15), Charlotte Hornets (2018-21), and Indiana Pacers (2021-23) at the NBA level.

His only head coaching experience came at Brownsburg High School in 2012 and 2013, and with the Long Island Nets in the NBA G League from 2016-18. He also worked with the Maine Red Clams from 2013-14. Nored is replacing Thad Matta, who retired after the end of the 2025-26 season.

Butler is coming off back-to-back losing seasons and has not finished above . 500 in the Big East since 2020. They have not made the NCAA Tournament since 2018, their longest drought since the early 1990s.