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Coach Brett Ferguson shares his coaching journey and how he ended up in Cullowhee, NC coaching at Western Carolina University. In September he was promoted to an Assistant Coach after spending the previous two seasons as WCU\\u2019s Director of Basketball Operations.

He got his start in the business as a Student Manager at Michigan State University under Tom Izzo. Coach Ferguson was a was a part of back-to-back regular-season Big Ten Championships and consecutive Final Four appearances in 2009 and 2010 while serving as a Student Manager at MSU.  

Following his time in Lansing he interned for the video department of the Big Ten Conference office in Chicago where he worked with both the football and basketball officials including organizing clinics. In 2012 he accepted a GA/Video Coordinator position at Winthrop and the next season he was hired at his alma mater to serve as the Video Coordinator at Michigan State and was a part of their 2015 Final Four run.

After serving as the Video Coordinator at MSU he went to work with Powerhouse Hoops, an official member of the Under Armour Association (UAA) in Phoenix, Ariz., as a coach and personal basketball skills trainer for kids ages six through high school. Coach Ferguson also was an advanced scout for two NBA teams \\u2013 the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks.