Western Kentucky is expected to hire Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Steve Lutz as its next head coach, sources told ESPN on Saturday.
Lutz is coming off back-to-back men's NCAA tournament appearances with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, guiding the Islanders to a Southland regular-season title this season.
They beat Southeast Missouri State in the First Four earlier this week before falling to Alabama 96-75 in the first round on Thursday.
In two seasons at Corpus Christi, Lutz is 47-23 overall and 21-11 in conference play. Prior to being hired as its head coach, Lutz was a longtime assistant coach at different levels of college basketball, most notably seven seasons at Creighton under Greg McDermott and four seasons at Purdue under Matt Painter.
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