Brian Kloman comes to NCCU after spending various parts of the last 10 years coaching the collegiate and high school levels of basketball from Division I to NAIA.
From Kloman who worked in and out of the college scene of the last few years that included time as an account manager at DPSG (Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group) selling wholesale beverages where he saw immediate success in dealing with nearly 100 accounts and had the highest growth of any route in the company at 81 percent. For the 2009-10 season he was an assistant coach at Pikeville College in Pikeville, Ky., under head coach Kelly Wells, where he was the recruiting and academic coordinator at the NAIA institution.
From March of 2008 to Feb. 2009, Kloman was the founder of one of the fastest growing coaching and recruiting services across the country at the time, recruitingrumors.com and coachingrumors.com that aided many college coaches with player evaluations in the recruiting process.
Kloman spent the 2007-08 campaign as an assistant coach and admissions counselor at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H. where he was in charge of recruiting, player development, while also working as an admissions counselor for the school.
He spent one season as an assistant coach at Pfeiffer University where he was a member of a staff that led all Division I and II teams in scoring with a 97.7 point per game average. Kloman worked as a fulltime recruiting coordinator, JV head coach, and player development while at Pfeiffer.
From April 2002-2005, Kloman earned a full-time position at the University of Tennessee as he was put in charge of player development. He helped the UT coaching staff with recruiting, and helped run the summer camps held by the basketball program. C.J. Watson, Chris Lofton, and Jujuan Smith were players that Kloman particularly had a hand in helping them get to the next level and play professional basketball.
From 1998-2002, the Asheville, N.C., native as a student assistant with the Volunteer basketball program under former UT head coach Jerry Green. Kloman graduated from A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville in 1998 and completed his bachelor of arts, sociology degree in 2002 at UT. The son of Mary and Chris Ferguson is married to his wife, Beth and the two have a daughter Anna Bryn. His father, Chris Ferguson is a longtime college basketball assistant coach currently at Oklahoma State University.
