His new role

Burlington:

It was role reversal for new Elon University men’s basketball coach Matt Matheny last week.

That’s because it wasn’t long ago that he was one of the pupils in the annual Villa 7 Consortium, which is a program set up to benefit assistant basketball coaches on the college level.

With the sixth installment of the program last week in Las Vegas, Matheny was tabbed as one of the speakers. The program is designed to help selected assistant coaches be prepared for head coaching jobs.