BYU Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Pope Adds Assistants To Staff

BYU Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Pope Adds Assistants To Staff

PROVO, Utah-Wednesday, BYU men’s basketball coach Mark Pope announced his coaching staff.

Pope confirmed Cody Fueger, Chris Burgess and Nick Robinson as his new assistants.

Fueger and Burgess have come to Provo from nearby Utah Valley University where Pope had previously been the head coach.

Robinson joins the Cougars’ staff after spending the last two seasons as an assistant at Seattle U.

Robinson has also previously been a head coach as he was at the helm at Southern Utah University from 2012-13 to 2015-16, posting a record of 29-90 (.244) for the Thunderbirds.

Prior to that, Robinson starred as a player at Stanford from 2001-2005 and has been an assistant at LSU, William Jewell College and Stanford.

With the help of his assistants, Pope led the Wolverines to three consecutive postseason appearances and consecutive 20-win seasons in 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Fueger has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Utah and worked for the Utah Jazz during the summers of 2014 and 2017.

Fueger has also previously been an assistant at BYU as he helped the Cougars to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2014 and 2015.

Burgess, a former standout player at Duke and Utah, began his coaching career at Utah in 2013-14 while finishing his degree.

He later worked as a volunteer assistant at Salt Lake Community College during the 2014 summer and was then hired as an assistant coach at Indian HIlls Community College of Ottumwa, Iowa for the 2014-15 season.