Rutgers will hire University of Connecticut assistant coach Karl Hobbs to be the team's associate head coach under Steve Pikiell, a source with knowledge of the situation told NJ Advance Media on Thursday.

The news was first reported by HoopsDreamMag.com.

Hobbs was named the head coach at George Washington in 2001 and spent 10 seasons leading the Colonials, with Pikiell spending time on his staff as an assistant from 2001 to 2005. The team won the Atlantic 10 Tournament in 2005 and 2007, as well as the regular season championship in 2006 with Hobbs earning A-10 Coach of the Year honors.

After played point guard at UConn in the early 1980s, Hobbs became an assistant coach at Boston University before returning to Storrs to be on coach Jim Calhoun's staff for the Huskies. The Massachusetts native was there from 1993 to 2001 and earned a reputation for his strong recruiting. He returned to Connecticut on coach Kevin Ollie's staff after leaving George Washington.

Things have moved quickly in Piscataway since Eddie Jordan was fired as Rutgers' head coach on March 10. Pikiell was hired as his replacement nine days later, and landed his first recruit one week later in Roselle Catholic's Matt Bullock -- the program's first New Jersey recruit in five years.

Star freshman guard Corey Sanders also announced on Thursday that he was entering the NBA Draft but would not be signing an agent.

Staff reporter Keith Sargent contributed to this report.

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