Assistant coach Anthony Wilkins

[WarthogRebel]

Hired today.

Anthony Wilkins is currently an assistant coach for the UNLV men's basketball team, as announced on April 17, 2025. Previously, he served as an assistant coach at Vanderbilt during the 2023-24 season and at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) starting in August 2024. Before that, he spent five seasons at Georgia Tech, where he was promoted to associate head coach in June 2022 after four years as an assistant. He also acted as interim head coach from March 10, 2023, until Damon Stoudamire’s appointment.

Wilkins, an Atlanta native, joined Georgia Tech in 2018 after five years at Tulane, where he was an assistant coach for four seasons and director of basketball operations for one. His coaching career began at Kent State in 2012-13 as director of player development. He is recognized for his player development skills, notably contributing to the growth of NBA players like Jose Alvarado and Moses Wright at Georgia Tech.

Before coaching, Wilkins played professionally for six years in Sweden, Ukraine, Mexico, South Korea, and the NBA G League. He was a co-captain at Kent State, earning defensive player of the year honors in 2002-03. Wilkins is noted as a rising coach, having been invited to the Collegiate Coaching Consortium at the 2022 Final Four.

 

[rebswin2]

It was 2008 when UNLV beat Kent in the Tourney in Omaha, can’t believe it’s been that long. When I read he was on staff there in 2012-2013 I was thinking that was probably a few years before UNLV played them it actually was a few years after…

 

[InZoneU]

Anthony was one of our players when I was EVP at Bakersfield Jam back in 07-08. In fact, I remember when we drafted him. I'll have to send him a note.

Fun fact. Our GM was such a fckup that we lost/forfeited our first round pick that year because he took to much time to get the pick in lol. That dude was such an idiot. In fact, Wilkins was the very last pick of the draft as compensatory pick for screwing up the first round pick. We also drafted James Peters that year and I was geeked. Remember him?