Quartet of Auburn men's basketball staffers receive promotions

Quartet of Auburn men’s basketball staffers receive promotions

Chad Prewett, Mike Burgomaster, Ian Borders and Maddux Jeffreys — all staff members within the Auburn men’s basketball program — each received promotions, head basketball coach Bruce Pearl announced Wednesday.

Prewett, who joined Auburn’s men’s basketball program after years in the high school ranks, has been with the Tigers since 2014, when he first started out as chief of staff. Since then, Prewett has served as the director of operations, interim assistant coach and special assistant.

The story is much of the same for Burgomaster, who enters his eighth year with the program after starting as a graduate assistant and climbing to recruiting coordinator and assistant to the head coach.

Now, thanks to changes the NCAA made in January, which allowed Division I programs to add two coaches, Prewett and Burgomaster have been promoted to assistant coaches on Auburn’s staff.

“When the NCAA rule changes took place, most schools added one or two members to their coaching staff,” Pearl said in a release. “For me, I have always held the belief in promoting from within.”

Meanwhile, Borders, who has served as the Tigers’ video coordinator with the duties of breaking down opponents’ film, in addition to recruiting duties and helping put together Bruce Pearl Basketball Camps, has been promoted to director of scouting and recruiting.

Finally, Jeffreys, whose time on The Plains started when he was a student manager eight years ago, now bears the title of director of operations.

Wednesday’s promotion of Prewett, Burgomaster, Borders and Jeffreys comes on the heels of Pearl elevating his son, Steven Pearl, to associate head coach on Tuesday.