Sport(s) Basketball 1999–2000 Fort Scott CC Conference Sun Belt Conference 1997–1999 North Texas (asst.) Titles Head coach | 1995–1996 Incarnate Word (asst.) Role Coach 1991–1995 Texas (asst.) Name Chris Beard | |
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1996–1997 Abilene Christian (asst.) Team Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans men's basketball | ||
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Christopher Michael Beard (born February 18, 1973) is an American basketball coach and the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
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- Coaching career
- Little Rock
- Texas Tech
- Family
- References
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.
Mbb new head men s basketball coach chris beard chats with texas tech tv
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. 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.
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. In 2012, he was hired as head coach at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas where he spent one season. 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. 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. 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 4, 2017, Chris Beard led Texas Tech to upset #7 West Virginia in overtime leading the Red Raiders to their first regular season win over the Mountaineers in program history.
Family
Beard has three daughters, Avery, Ella, and Margo.