Oregon State hires former Portland Pilots’ basketball coach Eric Reveno as men’s assistant

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Former University of Portland coach Eric Reveno will become associate head coach for Oregon State men’s basketball, a source told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Reveno, who coached the Pilots from 2006-16, fills one of the Beavers’ two assistant coaching openings. Shortly after Oregon State’s 2021-22 season ended with a 3-28 record, assistants Kerry Rupp and Stephen Thompson were relieved of their duties.

Reveno, 56, has been an assistant coach at Georgia Tech since 2016. He was influential off the court during his six-year run at Georgia Tech, as he was at the forefront of a movement that led to the NCAA mandating national Election Days as a day off for student-athletes.

Reveno coached 10 years at Portland, finishing with a 140-178 record at the West Coast Conference university. Under Reveno, the Pilots had two 20-win seasons and won a combined 60 games from 2008-11, the school’s most successful three-season stretch. The Pilots were also regularly among the nation’s top three-point shooting teams under the former coach.

Reveno was fired following the 2015-16 season after guiding the Pilots to a 12-20 record. Reveno has a deep history with the Pac-12 — he played basketball at Stanford from 1985-89, then spent 10 years as an assistant coach for the Cardinal.

He is the fifth assistant coach hired by Wayne Tinkle since he took over OSU’s program in 2014. Rupp and Thompson were on Tinkle’s original staff, along with Gregg Gottlieb. Marlon Stewart replaced Gottlieb prior to the start of the 2019-20 season.

--Nick Daschel | ndaschel@oregonian.com | @nickdaschel

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