[2] Between early coaching stints, Wicks launched the Arizona Power Basketball Academy and worked as a skill-instructor and director from 2011 to 2015.

He has trained notable NBA pre-draft prospects at the Impact Basketball Academy in Las Vegas, and worked with athletes such as Kawhi Leonard, Marvin Bagley, Isaiah Thomas, Xavier Silas, and Alec Burks.

He was named All-NSIC twice, all-Conference academic selection twice, and won the Clark Swisher Male Athlete of the Year once in the 2002–03 season.

He was in charge of film exchange and editing, individual workouts, in-state recruiting, as well as Ricardo Patton Basketball Camps.

He built APBA from the ground up and served as a skill instructor and program director based out of Gilbert, Arizona.

[5] Wicks served as an assistant for San Francisco for one season under head coach Rex Walters.

During the 2017–18 season, Northern State compiled a record of 36–4 and were national runner-ups in the 2018 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament.

Tyrell Carroll received first-team ALL-MIAA and Will Eames became Missouri Western's first-ever Freshman of the Year.

On March 27, 2020, Wicks resigned from Missouri Western to join Jeff Linder at Wyoming as assistant coach.

[9] On March 15, 2023, Wicks was named the ninth men's basketball head coach at Green Bay.