Vanderbilt men’s basketball head coach Mark Byington announced the addition of Kenneth Mangrum as an assistant coach on Tuesday. Mangrum comes to Nashville after serving as the associate head coach at New Mexico State in 2023-24.

“Kenneth is a coach who is very talented, a great communicator and someone who does all aspects of the job well,” said Byington. “I know he will be valuable for us and has been very valuable for the programs that he has been a part of in his coaching career.”

A 17-year veteran of collegiate coaching, Mangrum spent the five seasons prior to his New Mexico State stop as a member of the Troy coaching staff. Mangrum served three seasons as an assistant for the Trojans before being promoted to associate head coach. In his final two seasons at Troy, he helped lead the Trojans to back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Prior to joining Troy, Mangrum spent one season at Texas Southern where he helped the Tigers to a 24-14 mark and a 14-4 record in conference play. He also was at UT Arlington for four seasons, where he was part of the coaching staff which led the Mavericks to a program-record 27-9 mark in 2016-17. UT Arlington posted an 88-58 mark during Mangrum’s time on staff and advanced to postseason play twice.

Before UT Arlington, Mangrum spent one season as an assistant at Sam Houston where he helped lead the Bearkats to a 24-11 record and an appearance in the Southland Conference championship game. Sam Houston also earned its first postseason win at the Division I level that season.

Mangrum got his start at the collegiate level at Angelo State where he served as an assistant from 2007-13. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from North Texas where he played four seasons for the Mean Green.

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