Rutgers Women’s Basketball Adds Preston Beverly as Assistant Coach

Rutgers women’s basketball has added former Missouri assistant coach Preston Beverly to its coaching staff, according to The Knight Report. Beverly worked with the Tigers for the last two seasons under former head coach Robin Pingeton and is the fourth staffing hire the Scarlet Knights have made in the past two days. Beverly played his college ball at the Virginia Military Institute from 2001 to 2006, averaging 4.

1 points and 3. 6 rebounds. After his playing days, the Monroe, New Jersey, native began his college coaching career in the northeast, bouncing around SUNY-New Paltz, Bowdoin College (both Division III), and Nyack College (Division II) as an assistant from 2006-2012.

Beverly then moved on to a head coaching role at JUCO Lincoln College of New England, which is now closed. In three seasons as the team’s head coach, the team won 70 percent of its games and made the NJCAA for the first time in 2014. He then moved on to another JUCO team, the Richard Bland College of William & Mary in Virginia, as an assistant coach in 2016-2017, before becoming head coach in 2018-2019.

During his time as an assistant, the team went 30-6 and made the NJCAA Final Four. He then moved up to the Division 1 level, becoming an assistant for Hofstra’s women’s basketball program. After one season on Long Island, he moved to the AAU side, serving as head coach of the 16U and 14U teams for Exodus NYC, while also serving as an assistant coach on the 17U team and coaching four ESPN top 50 prospects in the process.