According to sources, Shrewsberry will serve as the Boilermakers' associate head coach.

Shrewsberry replaces Greg Gary, who left to become the head coach at Mercer.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter's newest assistant coach comes from the Boilermakers' recent past.

The program is expected to announce Friday that Micah Shrewsberry will return to fill the opening on Painter's coaching staff. Shrewsberry's sixth season as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics ended with Wednesday night's 116-91 loss at Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Shrewsberry spent the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons as a Purdue assistant. Per sources, he will receive the title of associate head coach. No Boilermaker assistant has held that title since Jack Owens left to become head coach at Miami of Ohio in 2017.

Painter could not yet comment on the next coach's at Tuesday's Boilers on the Road event in DeMotte, but discussed what he looked for when adding to his staff.

"Just trying to find someone who fits in with us," Painter said. "It's a good coach, it's a good person, someone that's familiar with our area, that's recruited in our area before. All of those qualities are what we were looking for there.

"Sometimes when you lose one guy you want somebody to come in that's like that person. Any time you have a staff you have more similarities than you have differences."

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The 42-year-old Shrewsberry joins Brandon Brantley and Steve Lutz as Painter's current assistants. In his previous tenure he established early connections with the Purdue 2014 recruiting class that went on to reach four NCAA tournaments and win the 2017 Big Ten regular season championship.

Prior to his first stint with the Boilermakers, Shrewsberry spent four years on current Celtics' coach Brad Stevens' staff at Butler. He helped the Bulldogs reach a pair of NCAA Tournament championship games in 2010 and 2011.

Shrewsberry also served as IU-South Bend's first head coach from 2005-07 and also coached at Wabash, DePauw and Marshall.

In a pregame interview during the Celtics' first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers, Stevens said Shrewsberry was one of the first two people he called to join him when he was hired by Boston.

"He adjusted to the NBA way quicker than I did," Stevens said. "He's as good of a friend and as good of a coach as you can be around."

Shrewsberry is an Indianapolis native and Cathedral alum who played at Hanover College. He succeeds Greg Gary, who left after Purdue's season to become the head coach at Mercer.

Shrewsberry has been mentioned in connection to multiple college coaching jobs in recent seasons. The Boston Globe reported in early April that Shrewsberry declined to interview for the Georgia State head coach opening. The Globe also reported Shrewsberry interviewed for the head coach position at St. Joseph's this year and was a finalist for the same position at UMass a year ago.

In addition to Gary and Owens, four other former Painter assistants have gone on to head coaching positions: current Missouri coach Cuonzo Martin, current Southeast Missouri State coach Rick Ray and former Missouri State coach Paul Lusk.

Contact Journal & Courier Purdue men's basketball insider Nathan Baird at nbaird@jconline.com or 765-420-5234. Follow on Twitter: @nbairdjc