Indiana head men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries announced the hiring of assistant coach Thomas Carr on Friday.
He has twice been named to the Silver Waves Media 2026 100 Most Impactful High Major Assistants with a decade of experience at the Division I level.
Carr will join assistant coaches Drew Adams, Rod Clark, Kenny Johnson, and Nick Norton on Coach DeVries’ staff for the 2026-27 season.
BEFORE BLOOMINGTON
Carr, a native of Toledo, Ohio, spent four seasons as an assistant coach for Pat Kelsey at Louisville (2024-26) and College of Charleston (2022-24). The Cardinals finished 51-19 with a mark of 29-9 in ACC play during his two-year run in Louisville. UofL earned NCAA Tournament bids in both 2025 and ’26, punching postseason tickets in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2007-15. The 2024-25 Cards appeared in the program’s first ACC Championship game.
He worked with All-ACC First Team selection Chucky Hepburn (2024-25), Second Team honorees Ryan Conwell (2025-26) and Terrence Edwards (2024-25), and ACC All-Rookie guard Mikel Brown Jr. (2025-26).
Prior to his two-year stint with the Cardinals, Carr served as an assistant coach at the College of Charleston. The Cougars compiled a record of 58-12 with a pair of CAA regular-season championships and two CAA Tournament championships.
He helped mentor All-CAA First Team selections Ante Brzovic (2023-24) and Dalton Bolon (2022-23), Second Teamer Reyne Smith (2023-24), and Third Team additions Ben Burnham (2023-24) and Ryan Larson (2022-23). James Scott (2023-24) was voted to the All-CAA Rookie Team, while Bryce Butler (2023-24) and Pat Robinson III (2022-23) were each selected at CAA Sixth Man of the Year.
Carr came to Charleston after serving for two years as Athletics Director at national high school powerhouse Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, N.C. During that time, he also connected with numerous coaching staffs across the country as Scouting Director of Your Fourth Assistant, while also working as Director of Team Loaded NC, one of the premier AAU programs in the country.
Before that, Carr spent five combined seasons as an assistant coach under former NC State head coach Kevin Keatts with both the Wolfpack and UNC Wilmington. During the 2017-18 and 2018-19 campaigns, NC State went 45-24, highlighted by a 2018 NCAA Tournament berth.
Carr’s time at UNC Wilmington was transformative for the program, producing three straight regular season CAA championships, two CAA Tournament titles and back-to-back NCAA trips in 2016 and 2017. Carr specifically coached the Seahawks’ backcourt and helped cultivate six players who received all-conference honors in three years.
Carr broke into the Division I coaching ranks in 2013-14 as an assistant coach at East Tennessee State with the Bucs making a nine-win improvement from the previous season.
He began his coaching career at Chipola College in 2009, then joined Keatts for his final season at Hargrave Military Academy in 2010-11. That year, Hargrave finished the season as the No. 1 prep school in the country and saw eight players sign D-I scholarships. Carr also spent one season leading George Washington High School to a 25-3 mark as the head varsity coach before landing the assistant coach position at East Tennessee State.
Carr was a two-year captain at Pfeiffer University from 2006-08 and finished second in the country in 3-pointers made.
Carr named Assistant Basketball Coach at Indiana
