Phil Cunningham, a 20-year veteran of the collegiate coaching ranks and native Kentuckian, will join the WKU men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant in 2012-13, Hilltopper head coach Ray Harper announced. Cunningham arrives on the Hill after spending 12 seasons as a nationally-recognized assistant coach as Mississippi State University.

The Campbellsville, Ky., native attended Taylor County High School and then played two collegiate seasons at Kentucky Wesleyan College before transferring to Campbellsville College to continue his playing career under his father, the legendary Lou Cunningham. Harper was an assistant coach at Kentucky Wesleyan while Cunningham played for the Panthers, and both were members of the 1987 NCAA Division II national championship team.

Coaching Career

Campbellsville (Ky.) College, assistant coach, 1991

Mississippi State, graduate assistant, 1992

Sue Bennett College, head coach, 1993-95

James Madison, assistant coach, 1996-97

Georgia State, assistant coach, 1998

Georgia State, associate head coach, 1999-2000

Mississippi State, assistant coach, 2001-12

WKU, assistant coach, 2013-present

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