Former Big East coach joins Michael Malone’s UNC staff
The Tar Heels are bolstering Mike Malone's staff with the addition of former Providence Friars head coach Kim English.
With a new era underway in Chapel Hill as Mike Malone is now in command as the new head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels , more changes and additions to the program are coming. After the departure of Hubert Davis, the program is ushering in a truly clean slate. One of the first moves Mike Malone has made to bolster his staff is coming by way of adding a former Big East head coach to his staff.
Malone is bringing on Kim English as an assistant coach for the Tar Heels to strengthen his staff and give him some more collegiate experience at his disposal. Source: UNC is expected to hire Kim English as an assistant coach under Michael Malone. English is the former head coach at George Mason and Providence and will give Malone an experienced college assistant.
pic. twitter. com/700k02nB0z — Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) April 13, 2026 Kim English is very familiar with the collegiate game as both a player and a coach.
During his playing days, he spent four seasons with the Missouri Tigers from 2008 to 2012, where he earned Third-Team All-Big 12 honors twice as he helped engineer 107 victories during his time with the Tigers. English has been around the college game as an assistant at Tulsa (2015-2017), Colorado (2017-2019), and Tennessee (2019-2021), before getting his shot as a head coach at George Mason, where he spent 2021 to 2023. English was most recently at Providence from 2023 to 2026 as the Friars' head coach.