Bob Hoffman (basketball)

Bob Hoffman

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Mercer
Conference	SoCon
Record	152–99 (.606)
Biographical details
Born	(1957-07-18) July 18, 1957 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Playing career
1975–1979	Oklahoma Baptist
Position(s)	Guard / Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1987–1990	Southern Nazarene (women)
1990–1999	Oklahoma Baptist
1999–2004	Texas-Pan American
2004–2006	Oklahoma (asst.)
2006–2007	Arkansas Aeros
2007–2008	Rio Grande Valley Vipers
2008–present	Mercer
Head coaching record
Overall	462–255 (.642)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
CIT championship (2012) 2× A-Sun regular season championship (2013, 2014) A-Sun Tournament championship (2014)

Bob Hoffman (born July 18, 1957) is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He is a graduate of Putnam City High School in Warr Acres, Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee to play basketball. He met his wife there and after graduation he was hired at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, Oklahoma just northwest of Oklahoma City. He was then hired as the head women's basketball coach at Southern Nazarene University, where his team won the NAIA national championship in 1989. From there he returned to his alma mater as men's coach for the following ten years.

From OBU he was the coach at University of Texas-Pan American then back to Oklahoma where he served as an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at the University of Oklahoma until Sampson and Hoffman were found to have committed numerous NCAA violations. Hoffman was not retained by new head coach Jeff Capel and went on to coach in the American Basketball League and the Developmental NBA. He was hired on March 27, 2008 to replace Mark Slonaker. He led Mercer to the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship as well as the University's first NCAA Tournament victory in an upset of No. 6 Duke on March 21, 2014.

Hoffman won his 400th game as a men's college coach when Mercer defeated Lipscomb University on January 26, 2013. With the victory, Hoffman is 488-239 as a men's and women's college coach. In addition, he previously served as head coach of the Arkansas Aeros in the American Basketball Association and of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Developmental League. Coach Hoffman holds the distinction of being the first coach in NCAA Division 1 Men's basketball history to post a victory in each of the collegiate post season basketball tournaments.

Hoffman is a Christian. Hoffman and Mercer President William D. Underwood are both graduates of Oklahoma Baptist University.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Oklahoma Baptist Bison (Sooner Athletic Conference) (1990–1999)
Oklahoma Baptist:		242–79 (.754)
Texas–Pan American Broncs (Independent) (1999–2004)
1999–00	Texas-Pan American	12–16
2000–01	Texas-Pan American	12–17
2001–02	Texas-Pan American	20–10
2002–03	Texas-Pan American	10–20
2003–04	Texas-Pan American	14–14
Texas-Pan American:		68–77 (.469)
Mercer Bears (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2008–2014)
2008–09	Mercer	17–15	11–9	5th
2009–10	Mercer	16–17	10–10	6th
2010–11	Mercer	15–18	11–9	5th
2011–12	Mercer	27–11	13–5	2nd	CIT Champions
2012–13	Mercer	24–12	14–4	1st	NIT Second Round
2013–14	Mercer	27–9	14–4	T–1st	NCAA Round of 32
Mercer Bears (Southern Conference) (2014–present)
2014–15	Mercer	19–16	12–6	3rd	CBI Quarterfinals
2015–16	Mercer	19–15	8–10	7th	CIT First Round
2016–17	Mercer	0–0	0–0
Mercer:		164–113 (.592)	93–57 (.620)
Total:		474–269 (.638)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

See also

• Hawkins Arena
• Mercer Bears