Another member of the Tom Izzo coaching tree has landed a job within the college basketball world. This time, it is an in state school hiring one of Izzo’s former Michigan State basketball assistants.
Saginaw Valley State has made the decision to hire Chris Fowler as the school’s ninth head men’s basketball coach.
Fowler started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Michigan State, spending two seasons with the Spartans in 2018-19 and 2019-20. He then went on to be an assistant coach at Northern Arizona for two seasons, before reuniting with Dwayne Stephens at Western Michigan for the past three seasons.
In his playing career, Fowler was a four-time collegiate captain while at Central Michigan. He is the brother of former Spartan wide receiver legend Bennie Fowler.
Fowler is taking over for Randy Baruth, who spent the last 13 seasons as the head coach of the Cardinals basketball program.
Fowler joins Stephens, Mark Montgomery and Stan Heath as former Izzo assistants that are current college basketball coaches.
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