Taylor Jones was hired on June 17, 2019 as the Assistant Coach of the Cloud County men's basketball program.

Jones, 29, is a native of Rochester, Illinois and comes to Concordia after spending the 2018-19 season as an assistant at the University of Jamestown, where he helped the Jimmies to a 29-6 overall record, a Great Plains Athletic Conference title, and a Round of 16 appearance in the NAIA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship.

While at Jamestown, Jones also coached Kevin Oberweiser, who signed to play professionally for the Limerick Celtics of Basketball Ireland. 

The move to Cloud County reunites Jones with Cloud County head coach Jordan Altman, who Jones worked alongside with in 2015-16 at Garden City Community College.

"Coach Altman and I have known each other for a while, worked with each other at Garden City, and he's always been a guy I can count on," Jones said. "Cloud County competes in the KJCCC, one of the premiere junior college conferences in the country, and it's a little closer to home for me. All of those things made this job attractive."

Sandwiched between his year at Garden City and year at the University of Jamestown was a two-year stop at the Dakota College at Bottineau from 2016-18. During his two seasons there, the Lumberjacks were 38-24 overall and had three players selected to the All-Region 13 team.

Jones is a former NCAA Division I player at Eastern Illinois University where he graduated in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in Sport Management. He stayed at EIU to earn his master's degree in Sport Administration (2015).

Before fulfilling his Division I dreams, Jones played one season of junior college basketball at Missouri West Plains in 2008-09.

Jones previously played for Mike Miller, who was named the Coach of the Year in 2017-18 for the NBA G League and is expected to join the New York Knicks Coaching Staff for the 2019-2020 season.