Andre McGee

Andre McGee (born March 7, 1987) is an American former professional basketball player of Phoenix Hagen, and former assistant coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). He resigned as assistant coach on October 23, 2015; he is the figure at the center of the University of Louisville basketball scandal.^[1] McGee's family has a history of playing college basketball. His father Anthony McGee played basketball at Long Beach State. His oldest brother, Tony McGee, played at Eastern Washington University and older brother Antoine McGee played at the University of Colorado.

High school career

He averaged 22.3 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 steals per game as a senior at Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley, California.

College career

McGee was the starting point guard for the 2008-09 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team. He says he chose Louisville because "Louisville is the best college sports town in the country, hands down, and Coach Pitino is the best coach in college. I would have been dumb to go anywhere else."

Health concerns

Over the course of his high school and college careers, McGee suffered many, sometimes severe, symptoms of what was identified in college as sickle cell trait. Throughout his playing career, he took IVs in the locker room before every game, and a trainer was available with oxygen on the bench at all times to combat the athletically induced symptoms.

Coaching career

After retiring from play after one professional season in Germany, McGee returned to Louisville as a graduate assistant on Rick Pitino's staff in 2010. McGee was promoted to director of basketball operations at Louisville in 2012. After the 2013–14 season, he left Louisville to become an assistant at UMKC under former Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson.^[2] It was alleged that during the time McGee was employed at Louisville, he procured strippers and prostitutes for some recruits and their fathers at campus parties from 2010 to 2014.^[3] Based on this allegation and a corresponding investigation by the NCAA, Louisville voluntarily withdrew from post-season play for the 2015–16 season. While the university has actively participated in the NCAA investigation, McGee has refused to be interviewed by the organization in regard to the allegations as of August 2016.

References

• Andre McGee-UofLsports.com profile
• Andre McGee ESPN.com profile
• Louisville guard dealing with rare genetic condition