Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
McDevitt announces addition of Eric Wilson to staff
5/4/2022 1:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball
MURFREESBORO - Middle Tennessee head coach Nick McDevitt announced today the hiring of Eric Wilson as an assistant coach.
"I'm very excited about the addition of Eric Wilson to our staff," McDevitt said. "He's a very well-rounded coach who has been attached to winning. Eric has a great reputation as a strong recruiter and on-court instructor and a man with a strong work ethic. We are thrilled to welcome Eric, his wife Kate, and their sons Asher and Zeke to the Middle Tennessee basketball family."
In Wilson's 14 seasons as an assistant coach, his teams have gone a combined 225-195. He spent the 2021-22 season as assistant coach at Presbyterian after serving as an assistant coach at the College of Charleston for two years. In his lone season in Clinton, S.C., Wilson helped coach three Blue Hose players to All-Big South honors.
Prior to joining the College of Charleston coaching staff, Wilson spent four seasons at North Carolina Central University where he helped head coach LeVelle Moton lead the Eagles to three-consecutive Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
During the 2016-17 season, the Eagles put together one of the best seasons in school history with a 25–9 overall record and a 13-3 mark in conference play. NCCU captured its third MEAC Regular-Season Championship and second MEAC Tournament Championship within a four-year span to make its second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance as an NCAA Division I member school.
Prior to NCCU, Wilson spent six years on the coaching staff of his alma mater, Western Carolina. From 2009 to 2010, he was Director of Basketball Operations for the program, before being elevated to Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator in 2010.
A former four-year point guard and defensive specialist for the Catamounts from 2004 to 2008, he played in 109 career games with 56 starts and averaged 4.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. Wilson graduated in 2008 from Western Carolina University's College of Business.
Following his graduation from WCU, he accepted his first coaching position in August of 2008 as an assistant coach (and later interim head coach) at NAIA member Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Ga. There, Wilson helped lead the Bears to a 20-win season and the conference semifinals. Three players from that squad were named to the Georgia All-State Team.
Wilson and his wife, Kate, are the proud parents of Asher James and Ezekiel "Zeke" Kai.
"I'm very excited about the addition of Eric Wilson to our staff," McDevitt said. "He's a very well-rounded coach who has been attached to winning. Eric has a great reputation as a strong recruiter and on-court instructor and a man with a strong work ethic. We are thrilled to welcome Eric, his wife Kate, and their sons Asher and Zeke to the Middle Tennessee basketball family."
In Wilson's 14 seasons as an assistant coach, his teams have gone a combined 225-195. He spent the 2021-22 season as assistant coach at Presbyterian after serving as an assistant coach at the College of Charleston for two years. In his lone season in Clinton, S.C., Wilson helped coach three Blue Hose players to All-Big South honors.
Prior to joining the College of Charleston coaching staff, Wilson spent four seasons at North Carolina Central University where he helped head coach LeVelle Moton lead the Eagles to three-consecutive Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
During the 2016-17 season, the Eagles put together one of the best seasons in school history with a 25–9 overall record and a 13-3 mark in conference play. NCCU captured its third MEAC Regular-Season Championship and second MEAC Tournament Championship within a four-year span to make its second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance as an NCAA Division I member school.
Prior to NCCU, Wilson spent six years on the coaching staff of his alma mater, Western Carolina. From 2009 to 2010, he was Director of Basketball Operations for the program, before being elevated to Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator in 2010.
A former four-year point guard and defensive specialist for the Catamounts from 2004 to 2008, he played in 109 career games with 56 starts and averaged 4.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. Wilson graduated in 2008 from Western Carolina University's College of Business.
Following his graduation from WCU, he accepted his first coaching position in August of 2008 as an assistant coach (and later interim head coach) at NAIA member Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Ga. There, Wilson helped lead the Bears to a 20-win season and the conference semifinals. Three players from that squad were named to the Georgia All-State Team.
Wilson and his wife, Kate, are the proud parents of Asher James and Ezekiel "Zeke" Kai.
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