USM basketball adds three assistant coaches
(Photo from Southern Miss Athletics)
Southern Miss head coach Jay Ladner announced Friday that Win Case, Luke Adams and Noah Croak will join his staff for the 2025-26 season.
According to the Athletics Department, Case comes to Hattiesburg after most recently being at Ole Miss as the Special Assistant to the Head Coach. Case helped the Rebels to 44 wins over the last two seasons and finished the 2024-25 season as the No. 18 team in the country. Case will be Ladner’s associate head coach for the 2025-26 season.
Adams will be an assistant coach for the Golden Eagles after spending two seasons at Tarleton State. After playing at Texas Tech, Adams took the coaching world by storm and is known as a defensive guru in the coaching ranks.
Croak joins the Southern Miss staff as an assistant coach after several stops at the Junior College and Division I ranks. While at Prairie View A&M, Croak was the youngest active Division I assistant coach in the country.
