CHAMPAIGN, IL – DECEMBER 02: Miami assistant coach Adam Fisher during a college basketball game … [+]
Temple on Wednesday named former Penn State and Miami assistant Adam Fisher its new men’s basketball coach.
Fisher will be formally introduced at a media conference next week.
“I am truly honored and humbled by the amazing opportunity to become a part of the Temple family,” said Fisher. “I could not be more excited to lead one of the nation’s most legendary programs in Temple Men’s Basketball.”
A 2006 Penn State alumnus, Fisher helped the Nittany Lions win five straight games before falling to No. 5 Purdue, 67-65, in the finals of the Big Ten tournament. Penn State lost to Texas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
A Jamison, Pa. native, he helped sign the highest ranked recruiting class in Penn State men’s basketball history in November 2021, less than eight months into Shrewsberry’s tenure in Happy Valley. The 2022 signing class ranked as a consensus top-30 class in the nation by all major recruiting services.
Prior to his return to Penn State, Fisher served as an assistant at Miami when they recorded four-straight 20-win seasons and made four-straight postseason appearances from 2014-15 through 2017-18.
The four consecutive postseason berths included Miami’s trip to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2015-16. Fisher was part of a Miami coaching staff that was one of only two ACC programs (Duke) to produce NBA Draft picks in consecutive years in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Two Hurricanes, Lonnie Walker IV, a first-round selection, and Bruce Brown Jr., a second-round pick, heard their names called in 2018. Dewan Hernandez was a 2019 NBA draftee.
Miami is now in the Final Four led by two of Fisher’s recruits: Isaiah Wong and Nisine “Wooga” Poplar.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2023/03/30/ncaa-coaching-carousel-temple-names-adam-fisher-head-coach/