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Chris Beard
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamTexas Tech
ConferenceBig 12
Record0-0 (–)
Annual salary$1.5 Million
Biographical details
Born (1973-02-18) February 18, 1973 (age 51)
Marietta, Georgia
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1995Texas (asst.)
1995–1996Incarnate Word (asst.)
1996–1997Abilene Christian (asst.)
1997–1999North Texas (asst.)
1999–2000Fort Scott CC
2000–2001Seminole State JC
2001–2011Texas Tech (assoc. HC)
2011–2012South Carolina Warriors
2012–2013McMurry
2013–2015Angelo State
2015–2016Arkansas–Little Rock
2016–presentTexas Tech
Head coaching record
Overall96–30 (.762) NCAA
44–18 Junior College
Tournaments1–1 (NCAA Division I)
2–1 (NCAA Division II)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Sun Belt regular season championship (2016)
Sun Belt Tournament championship (2016)
Awards
Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year (2016) [1] NABC District 24 Coach of the Year (2016) [2]

Christopher Michael Beard (born February 18, 1973[3]) is an American basketball coach and the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

He previously coached Arkansas-Little Rock,[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] In 2012, he was hired as head coach at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas where he spent one season.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] 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.

Family

Beard has three daughters, Avery, Ella, and Margo.[11]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
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 10–8
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 19–9
Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans (Sun Belt Conference) (2015–2016)
2015–16 Arkansas–Little Rock 30–5 17–3 1st NCAA D-I Second Round
Arkansas–Little Rock: 30–5 (.857) 17–3
Texas Tech Red Raiders (Big 12 Conference) (2016–present)
2016–17 Texas Tech 0–0 0–0
Texas Tech: (–) (–)
Total: 96–30 (.762)

      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

References

  1. ^ Hicks, Allen (9 March 2016). "Chris Beard named Coach of the Year". UALR Athletics. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  2. ^ Stegall, Amber (24 March 2016). "Chris Beard's rebuilding job earns him NABC District 24 Coach of the Year". NABC. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. ^ NCAA® Career Statistics
  4. ^ Chris Beard will be Arkansas-Little Rock’s next head coach – CollegeBasketballTalk
  5. ^ Schulte, Troy (March 8, 2016). "Net worth: UALR's Beard lives to coach basketball". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
  6. ^ TEXASTECH.COM Pat Knight Names Chris Beard Associate Head Coach - Texas Tech University Official Athletic Site
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ Anderson, Mark (March 27, 2016). "UNLV picks Beard as new basketball coach". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  10. ^ Goodman, Jeff (April 16, 2016). "Chris Beard hired by Texas Tech weeks after accepting UNLV job". ESPN.
  11. ^ Angelo State University - Chris Beard Named Fifth Head Men's Basketball Coach in ASU History
  12. ^ Standings/Schedules
  13. ^ McMurry University War Hawks Athletics - Men's Basketball Comes Up Short In NCCAA Regional Final
  14. ^ Lone Star Conference - 2013-14 Men's Basketball Standings
  15. ^ Lone Star Conference - 2014-15 Men's Basketball Standings

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