Chris Beard (basketball)
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Texas Tech |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 45–24 (.652) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 18, 1973 Marietta, Georgia |
| Alma mater | Texas |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1991–1995 | Texas (asst.) |
| 1995–1996 | Incarnate Word (asst.) |
| 1996–1997 | Abilene Christian (asst.) |
| 1997–1999 | North Texas (asst.) |
| 1999–2000 | Fort Scott CC |
| 2000–2001 | Seminole State JC |
| 2001–2011 | Texas Tech (assoc. HC) |
| 2011–2012 | South Carolina Warriors |
| 2012–2013 | McMurry |
| 2013–2015 | Angelo State |
| 2015–2016 | Little Rock |
| 2016–present | Texas Tech |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall |
141–54 (.723) NCAA 44–18 (.710) Junior College |
| Tournaments |
5–2 (NCAA Division I) 2–1 (NCAA Division II) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
|
Sun Belt regular season championship (2016) Sun Belt Tournament championship (2016) | |
| Awards | |
|
Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year (2018) Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2016) [1] | |
Christopher Michael Beard (born February 18, 1973[2]) is an American basketball coach and the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
He previously coached Little Rock, Angelo State, and McMurry University. Beard graduated from high school from McCullough High School in The Woodlands, Texas. He was a student assistant at Texas under coach Tom Penders graduating from UT in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. He received a Masters of Education from Abilene Christian University where he served as a graduate assistant in 1998.
Coaching career
After serving as a student assistant at Texas and a graduate assistant at Incarnate Word and Abilene Christian, Beard was an assistant coach at North Texas 1997–1999.
From there, he was hired as head coach at Fort Scott Community College where he coached the team to a 19–12 record and its first winning season in 8 years.[3] In 2000, he was hired as the head coach at Seminole State College. In his one-year there he went 25–6 and finished ranked 14th in the country.
Following that season, he was hired as an assistant and later associate head coach at Texas Tech to work under the legendary Bob Knight. During his time at Texas Tech, the Red Raiders made four NCAA Tournament appearances along with a trip to the NIT Final Four. Chris Beard spent 10 years coaching at Texas Tech under Bob Knight and his son Pat Knight, often citing the influence of the two men as his keys to success.[4]
Beard also spent one year as head coach for the South Carolina Warriors of the American Basketball Association, where he led the team to a 29–2 record.[5] In 2012, he was hired as head coach at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas where he spent one season.[6] In March 2013, he was hired as the sixth head coach at Angelo State. In two years with the Rams, he went 47–15.
Little Rock
On April 8, 2015, Beard was named the head coach of Arkansas–Little Rock.
In his first and only season at UALR, the Trojans went 30–5 and won the regular season and Sun Belt tournament titles to clinch an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Little Rock was awarded a 12 seed and knocked off fifth-seeded Purdue 85–83 in double overtime to advance to the Second Round, where they fell to Iowa State.
Beard was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year for his efforts.
Texas Tech
On March 27, 2016, Beard accepted the head coaching job at UNLV.[7] When the Texas Tech head coaching job was made vacant by Tubby Smith's departure to Memphis, Beard took the Texas Tech job on April 15, 2016.[8] Chris Beard cited his years as an assistant coach at Texas Tech University for 10 years under Bob Knight and Pat Knight amongst the reasons that he took the job and the proximity to his daughters who live a few hours away from Lubbock. On January 3, 2017, Chris Beard led Texas Tech to upset #7 West Virginia[9] leading the Red Raiders to their first regular-season win over the Mountaineers in program history. The following year he again led Texas Tech to a 72-71 win over #2 WVU. His 2017-18 team was also the first Texas Tech team to win at Kansas, snapping a 17-game road losing streak against the Jayhawks. Chris Beard won the Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year in 2018. On March 23, 2018 Beard coached Texas Tech to its first-ever Elite Eight berth in program history with a 78–65 win over the Purdue Boilermakers.[10]
Family
Beard has three daughters, Avery, Ella, and Margo.[11]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMurry War Hawks (Heartland Conference) (2012–2013) | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | McMurry | 19–10 | 10–8 | None[12] | NCCAA Regional Final[13] | ||||
| McMurry: | 19–10 (.655) | 10–8 (.556) | |||||||
| Angelo State Rams (Lone Star Conference) (2013–2015) | |||||||||
| 2013–14 | Angelo State | 19–9 | 8–6 | 3rd[14] | |||||
| 2014–15 | Angelo State | 28–6 | 11–3 | 2nd[15] | NCAA D-II Third Round | ||||
| Angelo State: | 47–15 (.758) | 19–9 (.679) | |||||||
| Little Rock Trojans (Sun Belt Conference) (2015–2016) | |||||||||
| 2015–16 | Little Rock | 30–5 | 17–3 | 1st | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| Little Rock: | 30–5 (.857) | 17–3 (.850) | |||||||
| Texas Tech Red Raiders (Big 12 Conference) (2016–present) | |||||||||
| 2016–17 | Texas Tech | 18–14 | 6–12 | T–7th | |||||
| 2017–18 | Texas Tech | 27–10 | 11–7 | T–2nd | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
| Texas Tech: | 45–24 (.652) | 17–19 (.472) | |||||||
| Total: | 141–54 (.723) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ↑ Hicks, Allen (9 March 2016). "Chris Beard named Coach of the Year". UALR Athletics. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ↑ NCAA® Career Statistics
- ↑ Schulte, Troy (March 8, 2016). "Net worth: UALR's Beard lives to coach basketball". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
- ↑ TEXASTECH.COM Pat Knight Names Chris Beard Associate Head Coach – Texas Tech University Official Athletic Site
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-29. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
- ↑
- ↑ Anderson, Mark (March 27, 2016). "UNLV picks Beard as new basketball coach". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ↑ Goodman, Jeff (April 16, 2016). "Chris Beard hired by Texas Tech weeks after accepting UNLV job". ESPN.
- ↑ http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game?gameId=400989273
- ↑ "Red Raiders Make School History". texastech.com. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- ↑ Angelo State University – Chris Beard Named Fifth Head Men's Basketball Coach in ASU History
- ↑ Standings/Schedules
- ↑ McMurry University War Hawks Athletics – Men's Basketball Comes Up Short In NCCAA Regional Final
- ↑ Lone Star Conference – 2013–14 Men's Basketball Standings
- ↑ Lone Star Conference – 2014–15 Men's Basketball Standings