LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones announced on Monday that Tom Kelsey, the head men’s basketball coach at Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss., will join the staff as the Director of Basketball Operations.

Coach Jones and Kelsey worked together in 2000-01 when Jones was an assistant with Kelsey on Mark Gottfried’s staff at the University of Alabama.

Kelsey has served as head coach at Belhaven for the last seven seasons, advancing this past year to the NAIA national tournament in Kansas City.

Kelsey posted a record of 137-115 in his seven years at Belhaven, advancing to the national tournament on two occasions.

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