Steve McClain
Current position | |
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Title | Assistant Coach |
Team | Texas |
Conference | SEC |
Biographical details | |
Born | Orient, Iowa,U.S. | August 15, 1962
Alma mater | Chadron State |
Coaching career (HCunless noted) | |
1982–1984 | Chadron State(asst.) |
1984 | Sioux Empire JC(asst.) |
1985 | Independence CC(asst.) |
1986–1991 | Hutchinson CC(asst.) |
1991–1994 | Hutchinson CC |
1994–1998 | TCU(asst.) |
1998–2007 | Wyoming |
2007–2010 | Colorado(asst.) |
2010–2015 | Indiana(asst.) |
2015–2020 | UIC |
2020–2022 | Georgia(asst.) |
2022–present | Texas(asst.) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 324–224 (.591) |
Tournaments | 1–1 (NCAA Division I) 2–3 (NIT) 2–1 (CBI) 3–1 (CIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
NJCAA Division I tournament(1994) 2KJCCCregular season (1993, 1994) 2MWCregular season (2001, 2002) | |
Awards | |
MWCCoach of the Year (2002) | |
Steven James McClain(born August 15, 1962) is an assistant basketball coach atTexas.He was most recently head coach at theUniversity of Illinois Chicago.[1]Prior to UIC, he had spent five seasons on the staff ofTom CreanatIndiana Hoosiers men's basketballteam.
Coaching career
[edit]Hutchinson Community College
[edit]McClain was the head basketball coach at Hutchinson CC from 1991 to 1994. While there, they won a NJCAA national championship during the 1993–94 season. His overall record at Hutchinson was 91–16.
Wyoming
[edit]McClain was the head basketball coach atWyomingfrom 1998 to 2007. In four out of his 9 seasons, Wyoming had made it to either the NCAA tournament, or the NIT tournament. His overall record at Wyoming was 157–115. However, after a disappointing 2006 campaign where he went 17–15, with no postseason berth, he was fired. In the 2002 NCAA tournament, Wyoming made it to the second round, which was their best finish since 1987. He was named the MWC coach of the year that season.
Steve McClain was known for his very animated and intense coaching style during games.[citation needed]
His teams have won two regular season conference championships. In six out of the 8 seasons he has coached in theMWC,at least one of his players has received First team All MWC honors. From 2000 to 2002, the Cowboys won at least 20 games in all three of their seasons, marking the first time that happened in two decades.
UIC
[edit]McClain parted ways with UIC after five seasons on March 13, 2020 after a 18–17 season that fell 1 win short of an NCAA tournament bid.[2][3]
Assistant coach
[edit]As an assistant at Colorado, McClain served as acting head coach during the absence of head coach Jeff Bzdelik for a portion of the 2009–10 season. He helped lead the Buffaloes to a 15–16 record, with seven of those losses coming by six points or less. While at Texas, McClain was a part of the Longhorns Big-12 Tournament Championship as well as an Elite-8 finish in the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
On April 22, 2020, Georgia announced the hiring of McClain as an assistant coach, reuniting him with Tom Crean who was the head coach at Indiana where McClain was the assistant for the 2010–15 seasons.[4]
Head coaching record
[edit]Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Hutchinson Blue Dragons(Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference)(1991–1994) | |||||||||
1991–92 | Hutchinson CC | 27–7 | 6–6 | 4th | NJCAA Division I Regional | ||||
1992–93 | Hutchinson CC | 29–5 | 11–1 | T–1st | NJCAA Division I Regional | ||||
1993–94 | Hutchinson CC | 35–4 | 10–2 | T–1st | NJCAA Division I Champion | ||||
Hutchinson CC: | 91–16 (.850) | 27–9 (.750) | |||||||
Wyoming Cowboys(Western Athletic Conference)(1998–1999) | |||||||||
1998–99 | Wyoming | 18–10 | 7–7 | T–4th(Mountain) | NIT Second Round | ||||
Wyoming Cowboys(Mountain West Conference)(1999–2007) | |||||||||
1999–00 | Wyoming | 19–12 | 8–6 | T–4th | |||||
2000–01 | Wyoming | 20–10 | 10–4 | T–1st | NIT First Round | ||||
2001–02 | Wyoming | 22–9 | 11–3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
2002–03 | Wyoming | 21–11 | 8–6 | T–4th | NIT Second Round | ||||
2003–04 | Wyoming | 11–17 | 4–10 | 8th | |||||
2004–05 | Wyoming | 15–13 | 7–7 | T–4th | |||||
2005–06 | Wyoming | 14–18 | 5–11 | 7th | |||||
2006–07 | Wyoming | 17–15 | 7–9 | 5th | |||||
Wyoming: | 157–115 (.577) | 73–71 (.507) | |||||||
UIC Flames(Horizon League)(2015–2020) | |||||||||
2015–16 | UIC | 5–25 | 3–15 | 10th | |||||
2016–17 | UIC | 17–19 | 7–11 | 6th | CBI Semifinals | ||||
2017–18 | UIC | 20–16 | 12–6 | 3rd | CIT Runner-Up | ||||
2018–19 | UIC | 16–16 | 10–8 | 5th | |||||
2019–20 | UIC | 18–17 | 10–8 | T-4th | |||||
UIC: | 76–93 (.450) | 42–48 (.467) | |||||||
Total: | 324–224 (.591) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
[edit]- ^"UIC Flames hire Indiana Hoosiers assistant Steve McClain as head coach".
- ^Greenstein, Teddy."UIC dismisses coach Steve McClain after Flames fall 1 win short of an NCAA Tournament bid. 'I'm proud of what we did here,' McClain says".chicagotribune.Retrieved2020-04-23.
- ^"UIC fires basketball coach Steve McClain after 5 seasons".USA TODAY.Retrieved2020-04-23.
- ^"Tom Crean hires Steve McClain to fill out Georgia hoops staff".Dawgs247.Retrieved2020-04-23.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Basketball coaches from Iowa
- Chadron State College alumni
- Chadron State Eagles men's basketball coaches
- Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball coaches
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- Hutchinson Blue Dragons men's basketball coaches
- Independence Pirates men's basketball coaches
- Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball coaches
- TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball coaches
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