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Legendary basketball coach Tubby Smith, who guided the year ranked ninth in the Associated Press (AP) poll. University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA title, is the 18th Following the 1990-91 season with the Wildcats, he head coach in the storied history of the University of Mem- earned his first head coaching position in 1991-92 with the phis (UofM) basketball program. Tulsa Golden Hurricane. At Tulsa, he went 79-43 over his Smith, who has a 576-289 career record as head four seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament coach at Memphis, Texas Tech, Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky, Sweet 16 appearances – the Golden Hurricane’s first NCAA and Minnesota, is a three-time National Coach of the Year, berths since 1986-87. and in 2016 was named The Sporting News National In the 1994 NCAA Tournament, Smith’s 12th-seeded Coach of the Year, Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year, Golden Hurricane squad upset 17th-ranked and fifth-seed- and John Wooden Legends of Coaching Awardee. Since ed UCLA in the opening round, before recording a sec- being named head coach at Memphis, Smith has also been ond-straight upset with a victory over 19th-ranked and the recipient of the Mannie Jackson Human Spirit Award. fourth-seeded Oklahoma State 82-80 in a game played in During a 10-year span between his tenures with three differ- Oklahoma City. The run for Tulsa that season ended in the ent programs (Tulsa, Georgia, and Kentucky), he advanced NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, where the team fell to top- his team to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 or beyond ranked and eventual NCAA champion Arkansas. eight times. A year later in 1994-95, Tulsa went 24-8 and earned HEAD COACH TUBBY SMITH HEAD COACH “A historic hire for the University of Memphis,” said a No. 6 seed for the 1995 NCAA Tournament. As a high- President M. David Rudd of Coach Tubby Smith. “He is the er seed against 11th-seeded Illinois, the Golden most accomplished coach the UofM has ever hired. For the Hurricane picked up a 68-62 win, University of Memphis and our basketball program, Tubby before topping 14th-seeded Old Smith is simply the right guy at the right time." Domin- ion 64-52 to earn a sec- “Tubby Smith is one of the finest collegiate basket- ond-straight NCAA Tour- ball coaches and is a man of tremendous character,” said nament Sweet 16 berth. His Memphis Athletics Director Tom Bowen. “Nationally, he is tour- nament run came to highly respected as a leader of young men and as a teacher an end against the University of the game. I am honored that Coach Smith has agreed of Mas- sachusetts in the NCAA to become the next head men’s basketball coach at the Tourna- ment regional semifi- University of Memphis.” nals. Smith has led teams to one National Championship, four NCAA Tournament Elite Eight appearances, nine NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances, and 17 overall NCAA Tournament berths. He has coached nine NBA draft picks and 19 former players have gone on to play in the NBA. Prior to UofM, Smith served as head coach at Tex- as Tech for three seasons. During his time there, the team improved from 11-20 in 2012-13 (the year before Smith took control of the program), to 19-13 in 2015-16, and earned the program's first NCAA Tournament berth since 2004-05. In 2015-16, Texas Tech made the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2004-05, finishing with a record of 19-16. For his efforts in turning around the program – which included a 9-9 mark in a strong Big 12 Conference – he was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year, in addition to being named The Sporting News National Coach of the Year. As an assistant and head coach, he has been a part of 758 collegiate wins and 23 trips to the NCAA Tournament since he began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth (VCU) in 1979. Smith first began his collegiate coaching career serving as an assistant at VCU for seven sea- sons from 1979 until 1986, where he helped guide the Rams to five NCAA Tournament appearances. Then, he spent three years assisting the South Carolina Gamecocks (1986-89), working with head coach George Felton to lead the program to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 15 seasons., After leaving the Gamecocks, he joined Rick Pitino's first coaching staff at Kentucky, and helped turn around a team that had a 13- 19 record in 1988-89 to a team that went 22-6 two seasons lat- er in 1990-91, and ended the UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS 2017-18 | 16 | MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE Smith continued his run of NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 olina State (No. 15 seed) and Saint Louis (No. 10 seed). appearances in his first season at Georgia, where he was In the regional semifinal, the team topped 19th-ranked and TUBBY SMITH HEAD COACH named head coach starting with the 1995-96 season. He sixth-seeded UCLA 94-68, before beating third-ranked guided the Bulldogs to a 21-10 record in his first season, and top-seeded Duke. In the national semifinal, his squad including the program’s first NCAA Tournament win since beat Stanford in overtime, before topping Utah in the NCAA the 1984-85 season, and the longest tournament run for championship game. Georgia since 1982-83. In 1998-99, the Wildcats finished 25-8 and earned As the No. 8 seed, Georgia topped Clemson 81-74 the SEC automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, where in the first round, before knocking off top-seeded and fifth- they were a No. 3 seed in the Midwest Regional. Kentucky ranked Purdue 76-69. The run came to an end in the NCAA knocked off New Mexico State in the opening round, before Tournament regional semifinal, where the Bulldogs fell to needing overtime to top sixth-seeded Kansas in the second fourth-seeded and 15th-ranked Syracuse – the eventual round. A 58-43 win over 10th-seed Miami (Ohio) in the re- NCAA runner-up. gional semifinals advanced Kentucky to the NCAA Tourna- A year later – in what was his final season with the ment Elite Eight for a fifth-straight season. Bulldogs – he led the program to a 24-9 overall record, was The 1999-2000 Kentucky squad went 23-10 and ranked 17th at the end of the season, and earned an NCAA advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Tournament berth. topping St. Bonaventure. A year later in 2000-01, the Wild- After the 1996-97 season, he was tabbed as the cats topped Holy Cross and Iona to advance to a sec- head coach at Kentucky. He took the reins of a program that ond-straight NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance. had just seven players returning from an NCAA title game A third-consecutive NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 ap- appearance the year before, and had the lowest preseason pearance came a year later with wins over Valparaiso and ranking for the program since 1991. Tulsa in the first two rounds during a 22-10 season. He orchestrated a run through the season in which The 2002-03 team suffered just four losses through- the team was ranked in the top-10 the entire year. The team out the entire season and had a 32-4 record. Wins over closed out the regular season with four-straight wins, be- IUPUI, Utah, and Wisconsin put the Wildcats into the NCAA fore sweeping through the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Tournament Elite Eight. A season later in 2003-04, Kentucky Tournament, winning each game by double figures. finished with a 27-5 record, an SEC Tournament title, and an A No. 2 seed in the South Region for the 1998 NCAA Tournament win. NCAA Tournament, the Wildcats breezed past South Car- In 2004-05, the Wildcats won the SEC regular-sea- YEAR-BY-YEAR WITH TUBBY SMITH YEAR SCHOOL RECORD PCT. CONF. RECORD CONF. FINISH POSTSEASON 1991-92 Tulsa 17-13 .567 12-6 (Missouri Valley) 4th / 10 MVC Trny Runner-Up 1992-93 Tulsa 15-14 .517 10-8 (Missouri Valley) 4th / 10 No Postseason 1993-94 Tulsa 23-8 .742 15-3 (Missouri Valley) 1st / 10 NCAA Sweet 16 1994-95 Tulsa 24-8 .750 15-3 (Missouri Valley) 1st / 10 NCAA Sweet 16 1995-96 Georgia 21-10 .677 9-7 (SEC) T3rd / 12 NCAA Sweet 16 1996-97 Georgia 24-9 .727 10-6 (SEC) 4th / 12 NCAA First Round 1997-98 Kentucky 35-4 .897 14-2 (SEC) 1st / 12 NCAA Champions 1998-99 Kentucky 28-9 .757 11-5 (SEC) 3rd / 12 NCAA Elite Eight 1999-00 Kentucky 23-10 .697 12-4 (SEC) T1st / 12 NCAA Second Round 2000-01 Kentucky 24-10 .706 12-4 (SEC) T1st / 12 NCAA Sweet 16 2001-02 Kentucky 22-10 .688 10-6 (SEC) T2nd / 12 NCAA Sweet 16 2002-03 Kentucky 32-4 .889 16-0 (SEC) 1st / 12 NCAA Elite Eight 2003-04 Kentucky 27-5 .844 13-3 (SEC) 2nd / 12 NCAA Second Round 2004-05 Kentucky 28-6 .824 14-2 (SEC) 1st / 12 NCAA Elite Eight 2005-06 Kentucky 22-13 .629 9-7 (SEC) 6th / 12 NCAA Second Round 2006-07 Kentucky 22-12 .647 9-7 (SEC) 4th / 12 NCAA Second Round 2007-08 Minnesota 20-14 .588 8-10 (Big Ten) 6th / 12 NIT First Round 2008-09 Minnesota 22-11 .667 9-9 (Big Ten) T7th / 12 NCAA First Round 2009-10 Minnesota 21-14 .600 9-9 (Big Ten) 6th / 12 NCAA First Round 2010-11 Minnesota 17-14 .548 6-12 (Big Ten) 9th / 12 No Postseason 2011-12 Minnesota 23-15 .605 6-12 (Big Ten) T9th / 12 NIT Runner-up 2012-13 Minnesota 21-13 .618 8-10 (Big Ten) T7th / 12 NCAA Third Round 2013-14 Texas Tech 14-18 .438 6-12 (Big 12) 9th / 10 No Postseason 2014-15 Texas Tech 13-19 .406 3-15 (Big 12) 10th / 10 No Postseason 2015-16 Texas Tech 19-13 .594 9-9 (Big 12) 7th / 10 NCAA First Round 2016-17 Memphis 19-13 .594 9-9 (American) 5th / 11 No Postseason CAREER RECORD 576-289 .666 264-180 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS 2017-18 | 16 | MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS 2017-18 | 17 | MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE son crown and went 28-6, beating Eastern Kentucky and Cincinnati en route to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, SMITH AT A GLANCE and a win over Utah advanced the team to the Elite Eight.