UMass Lowell Athletics

Louis Hinnant, Jr. is in his ninth year at UMass Lowell and his eighth as an assistant coach in 2022-23. Hinnant, who joined the River Hawk program in 2014-15 as the director of basketball operations, played professional basketball overseas after graduating from Boston College in 2006.
 
The point guard played professionally for teams based in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Finland and Sweden from 2006-14. In 2010, Hinnant helped lead his Hungarian Basketball League squad to a 24-0 start, in addition to regular-season and tournament championships. That season, he was selected to the All-Hungarian League First Team and the All-Import First Team, as well as being named Guard of the Year and a League All-Star. Hinnant also experienced a championship-winning season with his team out of Weissenfels, Germany in 2012.
 
A four-year team member at Boston College, Hinnant started 122-126 games played, averaging 29.2 minutes, 5.8 points, 2.4 rebounds and 4.0 assists. He netted a career-high 20 points in the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament championship game against Duke (3.12) prior to earning All-Tournament Second Team honors.
 
A native of Oxon Hill, Maryland, Hinnant graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications from BC in May 2006.