Isaac Stansbury Season 2026-27

Isaac Stansbury has rejoined head coach Will Wade’s staff in Baton Rouge as Director of Analytics and Scouting for the 2026-27 season.

Stansbury arrives in Baton Rouge from NC State where he served in an analytics role under Wade during the 2025-26 season.

Prior to his time at NC State, Stansbury was a graduate assistant at McNeese State for the 2024-25 season after coming off his playing career at Mississippi State.

As a player, Stansbury spent five seasons at Mississippi State (2019-2024). During his playing career, Stansbury was coached under Ben Howland and Chris Jans. In his last two seasons, Mississippi State made two consecutive NCAA Tournament trips for the first time since Rick Stansbury, his father, was the coach for the 2008 and 2009 tournaments.

Isaac Stansbury, who played in 24 games off the bench for Mississippi State, capped his career with final season appearances versus LSU at the SEC Tournament and Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament.

In his time as a student-athlete, Stansbury was selected to represent Mississippi State on the SEC Leadership Council as a senior and was a member of the school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) for four seasons.

He was selected twice to the SEC Community Service Team, which selects an athlete from each SEC school who gives back to his community through superior service efforts.

As a freshman, he was named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll. In addition, Stansbury was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll four times from 2020-24.

Stansbury graduated from Mississippi State with a petroleum engineering degree in May 2023 and a master of business administration.