HoopDirt.com can confirm that TCU assistant David Patrick will become the next head basketball coach at UC-Riverside. HoopDirt.com mentioned Patrick and his involvement here back on Saturday in the Weekend Dirt.

He will replace Dennis Cutts who was fired back on January 1st. UCR associate head coach Justin Bell manned the ship after Cutts’ dismissal.

Patrick has spent the past two seasons on Jamie Dixon’s staff, and also been an assistant at LSU, St. Mary’s, and Nicholls State.

An official announcement is expected later today.