One of the most familiar faces on Bruce Pearl’s Obern Tigers Basketball Staff is getting away after a decade.
assistant coachChad prevet Declared its retirement from coaching on Wednesday through social media, ending a storey career on the plains. The prevet, which attended the Obern program in 2014, shared that it was leaving basketball to adopt a new path in the ministry.
Obern head coach Bruce Pearl. Robert Deutha-Imagon Images
“I want to express my deepest gratitude for coach Bruce Pearl and the entire basketball staff,” prevetwrote on Twitter. “Once an Obern Tiger, always an Obern Tiger.”
During the increase in the national relevance of Obern, a foundation stone behind the curtain, prevet wore several hats over the years. He served as a special assistant, director of operations, interim assistant coaches and, recently, working with head coach Bruce Pearl. Six NCAA tournaments were included at the preveter with Obern. Their influence on Obern basketball speaks for himself.
Prewett was on employees for the greatest sessions in the history of the program, including the final four runs in 2019 and 2025. Obern’s official basketball site credited him for developing Bryas Brown, Jared Harper, and Mustafa Heron’s star-stad all-second backcourt trio, which is Obern’s magical 2019 final four-run heartbeat.
Their influence was felt beyond XS and OS. According to the Obern Basketball Site, the Oldi initiative of the prevet bruce pearl was heavily involved, which had a benefit to those in the fight against cancer. He also played an important role in orchestrating Bruce Pearl for the Children’s Golf Classic.
Pearl and the program have not yet announced a replacement, but it will not be easy to replace the deep institutional knowledge, philanthropic efforts and stable leadership of the prevet. He has four other assistants on employees, including Steven Pearl, son of his current bench boss.
Prevet time with Obern is a significant success, the team was going to 244–123 during its tenure.
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