Barry “Slice” Rohrssen has officially left Jamie Dixon’s staff at Pittsburgh and will be named an assistant coach at Kentucky in the coming days, as previously reported by SNY.tv
“Everyone at Pitt wishes Barry the very best in his future pursuits,” Dixon said.
A Kentucky spokesman said no announcement on their end was imminent.
Rohrssen, a Brooklyn native, would replace Orlando Antigua, now the head coach at South Florida.
SNY.tv reported April 14 that Rohrssen to Kentucky was “done.”
One of the top recruiters in New York City over the last two decades, Rohrssen served two stints as an assistant at Pitt and was also the head coach at Manhattan.
JOHNSON TO LOUISVILLE
In another move of high-major assistants, former Indiana assistant Kenny Johnson is headed to Louisville to replace Kevin Keatts, sources confirmed to SNY.tv.
Keatts is now the head coach at UNC-Wilmington.
A former coach with Team Takeover in Washington D.C., Johnson is known as a top recruiter who helped bring Stanford Robinson, Noah Vonleh, Troy Williams, Robert Johnson and James Blackmon Jr. to Indiana.
Maryland was also pursuing Johnson.
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