Former Texas-Rio Grande Valley associate men’s basketball coach Brock Erickson is signed on to become the next head coach of the Eagles next season, according to a statement from the school on Monday via social media. Erickson, too, has acknowledged the hire in his X bio.

Erickson helped current head coach Kahil Fennell lead UTRGV to two winning seasons since 2024, including a 14-8 finish last season in the Southland Conference. Western Michigan hired away Fennell, a former BYU assistant to current Kentucky head coach Mark Pope, last month.

Before moving to Texas, Erickson went 73-14 in three seasons as head coach of Division III Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts, including two Commonwealth Coast Conference championships and three regular-season titles.

Erickson’s been part of 11 different champions in 16 years as a college basketball coach, including a stop at Utah State Eastern, formerly known as the College of Eastern Utah before 2010.

It’s a big move for LCA to go after a Division I coach, but not a particularly surprising move given the school’s shift toward a national schedule while competing as an independent member of the UHSAA. No longer eligible for postseason play as an independent, the Eagles finished the season ranked fifth in Utah and No. 48 nationally by MaxPreps.

Much of that recent success came under former coach Casey Stanley, who left LCA earlier this month after three seasons to become the next head men’s basketball coach at Division II Westminster in Salt Lake City. Last fall, Stanley and the Eagles competed with some of the country’s leading high school programs at The Border League in Las Vegas.

Stanley went 66-20 during his tenure and produced a state championship during the 2023-24 campaign, the last time LCA was eligible for the postseason in Utah. He produced local standouts Tyrin Jones, who recently re-signed with UNLV for his sophomore season, and Omar Mowafak, who is signed to play for Todd Phillips next season at Utah Valley.

Connect with prep sports reporter Conner Becker via email at cbecker@standard.net and X @ctbecker.