Lamont Paris, the new South Carolina men’s basketball coach recently hired from Chattanooga, has announced his first 2 hires of assistant coaches.

Paris hired former Chattanooga assistants Tanner Bronson and Eddie Shannon as assistant coaches on his new staff at South Carolina. Bronson was an assistant for the Mocs the past 5 seasons (2017-22) and Shannon for the last 3 (2019-22).

Bronson is a Wisconsin native and played for the Badgers after he began his career as a walk-on, and later earned a scholarship. Bronson was a part of 4 NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight in 2005 and a Sweet Sixteen in 2008. Wisconsin won 30 or more games twice during his playing career in Madison.

Bronson got into coaching with the G-League’s Sioux Falls Skyforce as an assistant from 2009-11. Bronson then moved on as a graduate manager at Saint Louis from 2011-12 where he would eventually be named an assistant coach, a position he would hold from 2012-16. He then was an assistant at UNLV for one season in 2016-17. Bronson then joined Paris in Chattanooga in 2017.

Paris is from West Palm Beach, Florida and was a four-year starter at Florida (1995-99) and helped usher in the Billy Donovan era in Gainesville. He scored 1,168 career points and left as the career leader in steals (204) and was second in assists (493).

Shannon then played professionally overseas for 10 seasons.

Shannon got into coaching and first served as an assistant at NCAA Division II Palm Beach Atlantic from 2012-15. He then moved on to Chattanooga and worked as director of basketball operations for one season (2015-16) before he joined the staff as an assistant the following year (2016-17). He helped lead the Mocs to the NCAA Tournament in 2016 after winning the SoCon regular season and tournament titles. Shannon then went on to serve as an assistant at Canisius for two seasons (2017-19) before he returned to Chattanooga again as an assistant under Paris the last two years (2020-22).