Sport(s) Basketball 2010–2012 Clemson (asst.) Titles Head coach 2006–2010 Purdue (asst.) Education Clemson University | 1997–2004 Indiana State (asst.) Role Basketball Coach Record 0-10 (.000) Name Rick Ray | |
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Born May 8, 1970 (age 54)
Compton, California ( 1970-05-08 ) 2004–2006 Northern Illinois (asst.) Team Southeast Missouri State Redhawks Men's basketball Similar People Ben Howland, Tyler Stone, Lucas Nutt Profiles |
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Rick Ray (born May 8, 1970) is the head basketball coach at Southeast Missouri State. He was previously the head coach at Mississippi State.
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Ray was born in Compton, California, however his family moved to Kansas City when Ray was 6 years old. He is an All-American Scholar Athlete basketball player who played at Grand View College, where he majored in Applied Mathematics and Secondary Education. After graduation, Ray worked as an actuary in Chicago, but soon realized that he wanted to be a basketball coach. He quit his actuary job and became a coach and teacher at a high school in Des Moines, Iowa. After 1 1/2 years, he left to become a graduate assistant coach at Nebraska-Omaha. While at Nebraska-Omaha, he also earned a Master's degree in Sports Administration. From there, Ray was an assistant coach at Indiana State, Northern Illinois, Purdue, and Clemson, before being hired by Mississippi State.
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Upon hiring Ray, Mississippi State Athletics Director Scott Stricklin said, “Rick fits the model of head coach we have sought to bring into our program over the last several years. He is bright, enthusiastic, disciplined and is a man of integrity. He has served with some of the top head and assistant coaches in college basketball and will bring a piece of all of them to our head coaching position.”
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On March 21, 2015 Ray was fired by Mississippi State.
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