Kantor departs after spending the last decade with the program.
After spending the last 10 years with the program, UConn women’s basketball assistant coach Ben Kantor is leaving to join the staff at Georgia Tech.
He worked as the the Huskies’ video coordinator from 2015-2022 before being promoted to a non-recruiting assistant for the last two seasons. Kantor now heads to a Yellow Jacket program led by first-year head coach Karen Blair. His time in Storrs was bookended with national championships in 2016 and 2025.
UConn’s coaching staff had largely remained the same for the past four seasons. In 2021, Shea Ralph departed to become the head coach at Vanderbilt and was replaced by Morgan Valley. The next year, the NCAA allowed women’s basketball teams to hire two additional assistants who couldn’t recruit off-campus, which is when Kantor and Tonya Cardoza joined the staff.
Now, the Huskies can hire another non-recruiting assistant to work alongside head coach Geno Auriemma, associate head coach Chris Dailey and assistants Jamelle Elliott, Valley and Cardoza.
Elsewhere in coaching news, former UConn forward Kaili McLaren is joining Ralph’s staff at Vanderbilt. She spent the previous two seasons on the bench at Providence.