After concluding his playing career at EKU, Isaiah Minter spent the 2022-23 season as a student manager for the men’s basketball program. He served as a student-assistant coach during the 2023-24 season. In 2024-25, Minter moved to the program's director of player development.
Minter helped the Colonels win 18 games in 2024-25 and stay in the running for a second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship up until the final week of the season. An 8-game ASUN winning streak allowed the team to climb to the top of the league standings, beating eventual champion Lipscomb twice during that run.
Devontae Blanton earned first team All-ASUN honors in 2024-25. George Kimble III joined the program after one season in Division II and became a second team all-conference selection. Mayar Wol was chosen as the ASUN Sixth Man of the Year.
In 2023-24, Minter was part of a staff that helped EKU capture the 2023-24 ASUN Regular Season Championship. It was the first regular season conference title for the Colonels in 45 years (1979). The Colonels won their first seven conference games, which tied the best start to conference play in program history. No squad had started the league schedule with seven straight wins since 1959-60.
The team set a new program mark for blocks in a game with 13 against Troy on Nov. 27 and blocks in a season with 190. EKU was fifth in the nation in blocks per game, 14th in rebounds per game (40.13), 17th in offensive rebounds per game (13.23) and 29th in scoring (80.8/game).
Isaiah Cozart was chosen as the 2024 ASUN Player of the Year, the ASUN Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-ASUN, First Team NABC All-District and played in the Reese’s Division I All-Star Game in Phoenix during the Final Four. Leland Walker earned First Team All-ASUN honors and Second Team NABC All-District recognition. Blanton earned Third Team All-ASUN honors.
Minter played three seasons for the Colonels after spending his freshman season at Union College. As a senior in 2021-22, Minter played in 12 games and started once.
As a high school player at Madison Central in Richmond, Minter was a third-team all-state selection in 2018. He scored 31 points in a win over Lexington Bryan Station in the 2018 11th Region Tournament.
