Report: Nick Van Exel has interest in Cincinnati coaching job

The dominoes are falling quickly in the college basketball coaching carousel, and one prominent former Bearcat is interested in the Cincinnati job.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Memphis Grizzlies assistant Nick Van Exel has voiced his interest in taking the Cincinnati job vacated by Mick Cronin.

Memphis Grizzlies assistant Nick Van Exel has interest in the head coaching job at his alma mater, Cincinnati, sources tell ESPN. Jerry Stackhouse recently left Grizzlies staff for Vanderbilt job.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 9, 2019

Interestingly, the Memphis staff is becoming a hotbed of potential collegiate coaches.

Van Exel has a year of experience as a G League head coach, and has worked at the college level as an assistant for Texas Southern a decade ago. He has been a Memphis assistant since 2016. He obviously knows the Cincinnati program well, but his inexperience could be a risk.