Chris Jans will rejoin the Wichita State men’s basketball staff in 2016-17 as a special assistant, head coach Gregg Marshall announced Monday.

Jans worked as a contract consultant for the staff during the 2015-16 season, helping coaches with practice preparations, film breakdown, and scouting reports.

As special assistant, he’ll serve in a similar, non-coaching capacity, albeit as a full-time athletics employee. Jans will be permitted to sit on the bench during competition and may travel to away events.

“I am excited for the opportunity to rejoin the Wichita State men’s basketball program,” Jans said. “I am especially appreciative of Coach Marshall and Darron Boatright for making this happen. WSU is a special place, and I look forward to competing for championships and helping in any manner that I can.”

Jans was an assistant coach on Marshall’s first WSU staff in 2007-08 and the pair worked in tandem for seven seasons, laying the foundation for the most successful stretch of basketball in Shocker history.

Following WSU’s 2011 NIT Championship Jans was elevated to Associate Head Coach and held the title for his last three seasons, during which WSU won two Missouri Valley Conference titles, played in a Final Four and recorded the first 35-0 start in NCAA history.

The 47-year old Jans has logged 17 years as an assistant and seven as a head coach with an impressive 179-56 record.

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