Syracuse, N.Y. -- Greg Paulus was named an assistant basketball coach at Louisville during a 2 p.m. Thursday news conference. Jeff Greer of the Louisville Courier-Journal broke the story of Paulus' hire earlier in the day.

Paulus was a high school sports star in football and basketball at Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse. He chose basketball over football as his primary sport and picked Duke, where he played point guard from 2005-09. He then spent a season (2009) as Syracuse University's quarterback.

Paulus, 31, was most recently an assistant coach on the basketball staff of Thad Matta at Ohio State. Matta and Ohio State parted ways last June.

Louisville, snared in an FBI investigation into college basketball that resulted in the arrests of 10 men and contributed to the firing of head coach Rick Pitino, named David Padgett as its interim head coach on Sept. 29. Louisville placed assistant coaches Kenny Johnson and Jordan Fair on administrative leave; Fair was fired last week.

Padgett had already hired Trent Johnson, who has extensive head coaching experience, as one assistant. Paulus, his second hire, met the Louisville media today.