Wofford announced Friday that head coach Dwight Perry and associate head coach Tysor Anderson are no longer with the program.
Assistant coach Drew Gibson — a former All-Southern honoree for the Terriers, who returned to the program in 2023 — has been named interim coach and “will guide the program during the transition to new leadership,” according to a release.
Wofford did not provide any further explanation as to why it is moving on from both coaches.
Perry’s dismissal comes as a surprise for multiple reasons, including the fact that Wofford’s season opener against Milwaukee is in roughly two months.
However, beyond that, Perry, who went 48-43 in two and a half seasons in Spartanburg, also led the Terriers to the NCAA Tournament last season, the program’s first March Madness berth since current Virginia Tech coach Mike Young’s final season in 2019. Wofford lost 77-62 to Tennessee in the first round.
Perry’s tenure as head coach ended as unusually as it began. Perry, 37, joined the Wofford staff as an assistant in 2019 before being elevated to associate head coach in 2022.
However, midway through the 2022-23 season, then-head coach Jay McAuley took a leave of absence from the program amid reports that multiple players had approached the school’s administration to express their dissatisfaction with McAuley. Perry was subsequently named the interim coach in December 2022.
When McAuley resigned later that same month, it opened the door for Perry. In May 2023, after guiding the Terriers to a 12-12 record, he was formally named the head coach.
Before his time at Wofford, Perry, who played at Kentucky from 2006 to 2009, interned at Stanford under Johnny Dawkins, followed by coaching stints at VCU (under Shaka Smart) and Furman.
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