Eastern Illinois head men’s basketball coach Jay Spoonhour has announced the hiring of Rand Chappell as an assistant coach on the Panthers men’s basketball staff. Chappell replaces Bob Sundvold who accepted the head coaching position at NCAA Division II Missouri-St. Louis last week.

Chappell has ties to the Spoonhour family going back to his playing days at Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State) where he played for Charlie Spoonhour and was later an assistant coach for the Bears.

Chappell comes to EIU following a one-year stint as the head coach at Garden City Community College, a member of the Kansas Jayhawk Conference. Prior to that Chappell was the head coach at Central Arkansas guiding the program from the NCAA Division II ranks to its current NCAA Division I status. Chappell posted 104 wins with the program between 2003-10 including taking UCA to its first NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in 2005.

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