Boone County didn’t have to look too far to fill their boys basketball head coaching vacancy.
It did create another vacancy within the school, however. Todd Humphrey was named the boys basketball coach on Monday, taking the spot of Nathan Browning, who recently left for the Conner boys basketball coaching position. Humphrey coached the Boone County girls team the last three seasons.
After inheriting a very young roster in 2021-22 with just one senior, Humphrey guided the Lady Rebels to seven wins in each of the past two seasons. They showed marked improvement each season, the last year proving to be a competitive team with nine of their 20 losses coming by seven points or less.
Humphrey is a Holmes graduate and went to Lindsey Wilson College with a bachelors degree in communication, playing basketball for both programs. He’s coached at Holmes, Dixie Heights and Cooper prior to Boone County.
He’ll take on a familiar task in rebuilding a team. The Rebels graduated nine seniors off this past season’s team, accounting for 69.5 points per game and seven of them playing in at least 27 of the 28 games played last season.
Humphrey will be introduced on June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at the high school.
Humphrey’s hire fills all the head coaching vacancies in the 9th Region. Since the end of the season, five coaching changes have been made. Browning at Conner, Jake Thelen at Covington Catholic to replace Scott Ruthsatz, Scott Code at Dixie Heights to take over for Chad Fields and Sam Elsbernd coming to Holmes and taking over for Tony Perkins.