Benson fills the assistant coach role vacated by Riccardo Fois, who left Arizona to become an assistant coach of the Sacramento Kings, while joining associate head coach Jack Murphy and veteran assistant coach Steve Robinson as coaches who will recruit off campus.
King assumes a new position that will oversee all non-coaching staffers. A Phoenix-area businessman who served as executive director of the Arizona Basketball Coaches Association, King was known for running the Section 7 recruiting showcase in Glendale every June and has previously coached high school basketball.
With UA, King will now act as something of a general manager, serving as Arizona’s NIL liaison while overseeing operations and other non-coaching functions. He will share scheduling and other operations duties with UA basketball operations director Evan Manning.
Benson has served on all three of Lloyd’s Arizona staffs as a special assistant who handled many of the program’s operations, including on campus recruiting and scheduling. Benson also occasionally recruited off campus in place of Fois, who spent part of the past two summers coaching with the Italian national teams. In his new role, Benson will continue to serve as recruiting coordinator but can now recruit fully off campus.
A native of Tempe who played for Weber State and Grand Canyon, Benson also worked with Lloyd during the 2020-21 season at Gonzaga, where Benson was the Zags’ coordinator of basketball administration and Lloyd was an assistant coach. Before that, Benson served as an assistant coach at GCU
Contact sports reporter Bruce Pascoe at [email protected]. On X(Twitter): @brucepascoe
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