Aki Collins is an assistant coach and director of player personnel for the University of Maryland men's basketball program in College Park, Maryland, joining the staff for the 2025-26 season. He arrived at Maryland with more than 20 years of coaching experience and reunited with head coach Buzz Williams after previously working with him at Marquette.
Before coming to Maryland, Collins was Head of Recruiting and Retention for Overtime Elite. His recent college experience also includes stops at Penn State from 2021 to 2023 and New Mexico in 2020-21, after five seasons with the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder from 2015 to 2020. Earlier in his career, he coached at Memphis, Marquette, Fairfield, Marshall, Howard, and Colorado.
