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Mike Bibby, a 14-year NBA veteran and former Sacramento Kings star, has agreed on a deal to become the next men's basketball head coach of the Sacramento State Hornets, sources told ESPN on Monday.
Bibby's agent, Tyler Glass of CSE Talent, negotiated the agreement with school officials in recent days. The university is slated to open a new basketball facility on campus next fall. Sac State president Luke Wood, an alum and the youngest president ever appointed in the California State University system, has been aggressive in his approach with the athletics programs -- and the hiring of Bibby continues that.
He would replace Michael Czepil, who served as the Big Sky Conference school's interim head coach for the 2024-25 season.
Bibby previously spent six years as a coach at Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, where he played on the school's first state championship team as a student in 1996 before competing for two seasons at the University of Arizona. He led the Wildcats to the 1997 NCAA championship as a freshman.
Bibby was drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies the next year. He played for several teams over his NBA career from 1998 to 2012, averaging 14.7 points, 5.5 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 1,001 games. His most successful NBA stint came with the Kings from 2001 to 2008, which included one Western Conference finals berth, two West semifinal runs and averages of 17.6 points, 5.4 assists and 3.2 rebounds in 476 regular-season games.
As a high school coach, Bibby guided Shadow Mountain to four consecutive state championships, winning a total of five over his run from 2013 to 2019.
Sacramento State went 7-25 this season under Czepil, who was promoted last spring after David Patrick left to take a job as associate head coach at LSU.
The Hornets had gone 28-42 in two seasons under Patrick, and the program has never made an NCAA tournament since moving up to Division I in 1991-92. The Hornets have posted a winning record only twice since then, going 16-14 in 2019-20 and 21-12 in 2014-15.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
