EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN - Niya Butts, a native of Americus, Georgia, is leaving as an assistant with the Michigan State women's basketball team for a similar position at Kentucky.<br>
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Butts will join the staff of new Wildcats head coach Mickie DeMoss, who Butts played under at Tennessee from 1996-2000 when DeMoss was an assistant there. Butts was part of two national championship teams at Tennessee in 1997 and 1998.<br>
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Michigan State head coach Joanne McCallie said Butts did a terrific job in her first season with the Spartans.
