A former NBA Developmental League player and Clemson University standout, David Potter is set for his second year as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Lycoming College in 2018-19.
Potter helped the Warriors to a 19-9 record in 2017-18, helping the team reach as high as sixth in the D3hoops.com poll after opening the season with 13 straight wins.
Potter played in 134 games with 30 starts at Clemson University from 2007-10, earning the team’s Most Improved Award in 2008 and the team’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2010. He helped the Tigers to the National Invitational Tournament championship game his freshman season before helping his team to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game his sophomore year. Potter helped Clemson go 93-41 in his career.
After averaging 7.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals his senior year, Potter played for the Texas Rio Grande Vipers of the NBA D-League. In 2011, he played in Palanga, Lithuania for the Naglis.
Potter spent four years as a private trainer at E-Train University in Washington D.C., before his first tenure in college basketball, spending two years as a graduate assistant at Southeast Missouri State University.
A native of Eldersburg, Md., Potter earned a Bachelor of Science in sociology from Clemson University in 2010. He also has a Master’s in Higher Education from Southeast Missouri State.
