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Greg Jockims couldn’t resist when the Canadian Elite Basketball League came calling.

Jockims — who had coached the University of Saskatchewan Huskies to the program’s one and only U Sports men’s basketball national championship back in 2010 — was introduced Wednesday as the new head coach and general manager of the Saskatchewan Rattlers for the CEBL’s upcoming inaugural season.

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For Jockims, it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. He still has the itch to coach at a high level.

“I still have a lot left in the tank to coach and I really enjoy it,” admitted Jockims, who most recently has been involved with Basketball Saskatchewan as a coach as well as mentor and consultant as the provincial high-performance coach.

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