Georgetown assistant coach Tavaras Hardy will be the final addition to Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner’s staff, according to two people familiar with the search.
Hardy had been on the Hoyas’ bench for the past three seasons and has a reputation as a national recruiter. He was previously an assistant at Northwestern and a coach with an AAU team in Illinois prior to that.
Georgetown’s 2014 recruiting class was ranked No. 7 nationally by ESPN and the 2015 class was No. 26. The 2014 class was the Hoyas’ first top-10 class since 2007. During Hardy’s time at Northwestern, the Wildcats went to the NIT four consecutive seasons, the most prolonged run of success in the school’s modest basketball history since the second decade of the 20th century.
Pastner’s staff has considerable experience coaching and playing at elite academic institutions at the power-conference level. Besides Hardy, Eric Reveno played for Stanford and was an assistant there for nine seasons during its most successful run. Darryl LaBarrie both played at Tech for coaches Bobby Cremins and Paul Hewitt and later coached two seasons at Tech for Hewitt.
The hiring was first reported by Scout Thursday morning.
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