Story Courtesy: Dan McDonnell, USI Athletic Communications
University of Southern Indiana Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard announced the additions of Stefan King, Doug Novsek and Dylan Ingram to his 2026-27 coaching staff.
King comes to the Screaming Eagles after spending the previous four seasons at Tennessee Tech University, where he was an assistant coach from 2024-26 after serving as the program’s director of operations from 2022-24.
During his tenure at Tennessee Tech, King helped lead the Golden Eagles to a pair of Ohio Valley Conference Tournament berths as well as a spot in the OVC Championship game in 2023.
In 2022-23, King helped Tennessee Tech to some impressive numbers from three-point range. The Golden Eagles ranked first in the OVC in made three-pointers and third in the league in three-point field goal percentage. They also ranked 28th, nationally, in three-point field goal percentage and 29th in the nation in made three-pointers per game.
Novsek returns to the Screaming Eagles after spending the 2025-26 season as the head boys’ basketball coach at Mt. Vernon High School in Mt. Vernon, Indiana.
Prior to the 2025-26 season, Novsek spent the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons on the Screaming Eagles’ sidelines under Coach Gouard.
Novsek came to USI from Eastern Illinois University, where he spent the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons as an assistant, and the University of Idaho, where he was the assistant coach in 2019-20 and the associate head coach in 2020-21.
Between 2015 and 2018, Novsek worked with the University of Evansville and helped the Purple Aces to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament championship game and a 25-9 mark in 2016. He also helped guide the University of Nevada to three Western Athletic Conference regular-season titles between 2006 and 2015.
Ingram, who will be a graduate assistant in 2026-27, wrapped up his collegiate career at the University of Indianapolis in 2024-25.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Ingram earned Great Lakes Valley Conference Freshman of the Year honors at Maryville University before transferring to UIndy. He averaged 7.9 points per game in two seasons with the Saints before averaging 5.0 points per game during his two seasons with the Greyhounds.
Ingram earned his bachelor’s degree in sport management from UIndy in 2025.
