It turns out that it isn’t just Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens of current and former Celtics coaching alumni who has been tied to a head coaching vacancy in the NCAA ranks. As with Stevens, Shrewsberry was a product of the Indiana basketball scene, playing collegiately at Hanover College and assistant or head coaching at Wabash, DePauw, IU South Bend and other stops before joining Stevens’ Butler staff n 2005.

He’d move on to Purdue as an assistant before joining Stevens on the Celtics in 2103, and remained in that position until 2019, when he returned to Purdue in the same role.

Brad Stevens has no plans to leave Celtics for Indiana head coach opening https://t. Co/Kh8TWwAWx5

– The Celtics Wire March 17, 2021

“I’m extremely humbled and excited to be the next head coach at Penn State University,” said Shrewsberry per Penn State.