Eugene Tulyagijja leaves SU for New York Knicks coaching analytics role
Eugene Tulyagijja has become the New York Knicks’ assistant director of coaching analytics, he confirmed to The Daily Orange on Wednesday. Leonardo Eriman | Photo Editor
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Eugene Tulyagijja has become the New York Knicks assistant director of coaching analytics, he confirmed to The Daily Orange on Wednesday. Tulyagijja served as Syracuse men’s basketball’s data analyst for the 2024-25 season.
Before joining the Orange in a full-time role, Tulyagijja — who graduated from SU in 2024 — served as the program’s analytics intern and head student manager. He also served as a data analyst intern for the Cleveland Cavaliers and was the head of pre-draft player analytics for the 2024 NBA Draft class for the agency William Morris Endeavor.
After Syracuse hired general manager Alex Kline in June 2024, Tulyagijja worked closely with him to build an algorithm to help the program identify talent.
“Going into this portal season would be the first time actually implementing it,” Tulyagijja told The Daily Orange about the algorithm in January, before SU acquired six transfers over the offseason. “I think this high school recruiting cycle, we implemented a little bit of it. That’s how we got guys like Luke Fennell and Aaron Womack from Wisconsin.”
The Knicks’ season starts later tonight, while Syracuse’s first game is set for Nov. 3 against Binghamton. It is unclear right now what the Orange will do, or have done, to replace Tulyagijja.
