Yeah, I've been sitting on that one for a few days. I'm pretty excited about it.
Edwind McGhee, North Park's new full-time assistant coach (who holds the title of associate head coach), just finished his first season as the head coach at downstate Lincoln College, where he had been an assistant for the previous two seasons as Lincoln transitioned into the NAIA and the CCAC. In his 2021-22 debut as the man in charge, McGhee's Lynx were an ordinary-looking 13-14, 12-10 in the regular season. But that 12-10 CCAC record was good enough to get them the sixth seed in the six-team league tourney ... and they went on the road and beat third-seed Indiana-Northwest (which was receiving votes in the NAIA national poll) and second-seed Indiana-South Bend (ranked #19 in the NAIA poll) before falling five points short of the regular-season champ and #1 seed, eleventh-ranked Olivet Nazarene, in the CCAC tourney championship game on the home floor of the Tigers in Bourbonnais. That championship-game loss snapped a seven-game winning streak for McGhee's Lynx, who finished the season 15-15.
Unfortunately for McGhee and his Lynx, Lincoln College was forced to close its doors for good last week. The one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic and a ransomware attack on the school's computer system by Iranian-based hackers, which disabled the school's administrative functions for three months last winter, spelled doom for the college. It's a bad loss for Illinois higher education; although not an HBCU, Lincoln had a majority-black student population and was dominated by students who were the first generation in their families to attend college. The school just didn't have enough financial resources to deal with the double blow.
Prior to coming onto the Lincoln staff as an assistant coach, McGhee was the head coach at a prep school in Florida for two years. Before that, he served as a GA on the DePaul men's basketball coaching staff, where he earned his master's degree. That came immediately after he had ended his playing career for the Blue Demons; he came to DePaul as a walk-on and earned a basketball scholarship by his junior year, which is the kind of thing that always impresses me. He graduated from DePaul with a double major. One of them was Broadcast Journalism, so I'm sure that I'm going to get great interviews out of him.

His background leads me to believe that he should be an invaluable right-hand man for Sean Smith, as Sean himself makes his debut as a head coach in 2022-23.