Former Holy Cross assistant Kevin Nickelberry Darryl Hilliard as his top assistant at Hampton.
Rounding out Nickelberry's staff: Hartford assistant Chris Pompey and Brian Merritt, the director of basketball operations at Louisville.
Nickelberry says Hilliard, Merritt and himself are coaches from "the Pitino Family Tree," which of course includes Willard, who was a Pitino assistant with New York Knicks and at Kentucky.