After spending the last two seasons as the director of men’s basketball operations at Loyola University Chicago, Matt Gordon has been promoted to assistant coach, Ramblers head coach Porter Moser announced today.

"Matt has been with me for nine years in different capacities and no one I know works harder," Moser said. "He has a great basketball mind, knows how to teach the game and has a great energy about him. Loyalty and understanding of our program are two things you cannot put a price tag on. I am so happy to promote him."

Since joining Moser’s staff at Loyola, Gordon, a St. Rita High School product, has overseen the team’s video breakdown, while also coordinating team travel, and during the 2012-13 season, the Ramblers posted an eight-game improvement in the win column. Ben Averkamp became the first player in program history to be named Capital One Second Team Academic All-America, and also earned Second Team All-Horizon League honors for the second consecutive season.

Gordon, who has worked with Moser for each of the last five years, began his basketball career as the head manager at Illinois State, and worked three seasons there when Moser was the head coach. While with the Redbirds, Gordon also served as the team’s video coordinator. During the 2007-08 season, Gordon worked for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies as a basketball operations intern, assisting the coaching staff with a multitude of projects including video editing.

He then worked with Moser on legendary coach Rick Majerus’ staff as the director of basketball operations at Saint Louis University from 2008-11, and during the 2009-10 campaign, the Billikens posted a 23-13 overall mark and reached the championship series of the College Basketball Invitational (CBI).

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