CBS Sports' Jeff Goodman reported today that IU assistant men's basketball coach Bennie Seltzer is expected to accepting the head coach position at Samford University.
Seltzer, a Birmingham, Ala. native, would be considerably closer to his hometown if he were to accept his first collegiate head coach position. The 39-year-old Seltzer worked on IU Coach Tom Crean's staff all four years in Bloomington and also was part of Crean's staff two years prior at Marquette.
IU Athletics has yet to confirm Goodman's report, but he stated that the deal would go through 'barring a last-second collapse in negotiations.'
Among the names surfaced as Seltzer's possible replacement is IU Director of Basketball Operations, Calbert Cheaney, who just finished his first season in Bloomington. Though he spent all of 2011-12 on IU's bench working in player development, Cheaney has no official coaching experience.
