East Tennessee State hires Wichita State assistant Steve Forbes
East Tennessee State has hired Wichita State assistant Steve Forbes as its next basketball coach.
Forbes replaces Murry Bartow, who was fired March 13 after going 224-165 with three NCAA tournament appearances in 12 seasons. ETSU earned the most recent of those NCAA invitations in 2010.
In a release Monday announcing the move, ETSU athletic director Richard Sander said "when you look at his accomplishments, it's easy to see that Steve Forbes and winning are synonymous."
The 50-year-old Forbes spent the past two seasons at Wichita State after going 62-6 in two seasons as the head coach at Northwest Florida State, a junior college in Niceville, Florida.
Forbes has connections within the Volunteer State from his five years working as an assistant on Bruce Pearl's Tennessee staff.
