Skip To Main Content

University of Maryland Athletics

Tevon Saddler

Tevon Saddler

Tevon Saddler spent the 2022-23 season as the Director of Player Personnel on Kevin Willard's staff. In April 2023, he was named head coach at his alma mater Nicholls State.

A native of Aberdeen, Maryland, Saddler came to Maryland after serving as an assistant coach at McNeese State. 

Before that, he was a director of basketball operations at Nicholls State for two years. Saddler joined Nicholls in the summer of 2019, serving as the program's Director of Operations. 

Prior to returning back to his alma mater, Saddler spent 2018-19 season as a graduate assistant at the University of South Alabama where he worked with All-Sun Belt talents Trhae Mitchell and Josh Ajeyi on a daily basis. He was required to train the redshirt transfer players, including Josh Ayeni, Don Coleman and Andre Fox.

Saddler received his Master of Science in Sports Management from the University of South Alabama in just 13 months, graduating from the program in July 2019.

Saddler started his career at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, earning SoCon Freshman of the Year and clinching back-to-back All-Conference selections before transferring to play at Nicholls. In his lone season with the Colonels, he helped lead them to their first conference championship in two decades while also earning a spot on the All-Southland team.

Saddler received his Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Nicholls in May 2018.