Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott has announced that Steve Merfeld will be promoted to a newly-created role as Director of Player Development, while Patrick Sellers will replace Merfeld as an assistant coach with the program.

Merfeld has spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at Creighton, during which time the Bluejays have won two MVC Tournaments and one MVC regular-season title. He has been heavily involved in working with CU’s post players, as well as scouting, recruiting and scheduling.

Merfeld owns 10 years of head coaching experience, having spent five years each at Evansville and Hampton, and 27 years overall as a Division I basketball coach. He is a 1984 graduate of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Sellers was an assistant coach at Hofstra last season, and owns previous experience as an assistant coach at Connecticut, Massachusetts and Central Connecticut State. He also coached one season professionally in China with the Shanxi Dragons.

Sellers is a 1991 graduate of Central Connecticut State, where he was named East Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. Following college, Sellers played professionally in the British Basketball League before joining the coaching ranks at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Conn., where he led his team to back-to-back state playoff appearances in 1998 and 1999.

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