Bruce Pearl

Bruce Pearl

Pearl speaking in Knoxville in 2010
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Auburn
Conference	SEC
Record	43–51 (.457)
Biographical details
Born	(1960-03-18) March 18, 1960 (age 56) Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Boston College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1986	Stanford (asst.)
1986–1992	Iowa (asst.)
1992–2001	Southern Indiana
2001–2005	Milwaukee
2005–2011	Tennessee
2014–present	Auburn
Head coaching record
Overall	505–196 (.720)
Tournaments	10–8 (NCAA) 1–1 (NIT) 9–8 (SEC) 5–2 (Horizon League)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Men's Division II Tournament championship (1995) 4× GLVC regular season championship (1994, 1996, 1997, 2001) 2× Horizon League Tournament championship (2003, 2005) 2× Horizon League regular season championship (2004, 2005) SEC regular season championship (2008)
Awards
NABC Division II Coach of the Year (1995) Sporting News Coach of the Year (2006) Adolph Rupp Cup (2008) NABC Great Lakes District Coach of the Year (2000) 2× USBWA District IV Coach of the Year (2006, 2008) 2× NABC District 7 Coach of the Year (2006, 2008) 2× GLVC Coach of the Year (1993, 1994) 3× Horizon League Coach of the Year (2003–2005) 2× SEC Coach of the Year (2006, 2008)
Medal record Head Coach for  United States Maccabi USA men's basketball team Maccabiah Games 2009 Tel Aviv

Bruce Allan Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach, and the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men's basketball program. He previously served as the head coach at Tennessee, Milwaukee, and Southern Indiana. Pearl led Southern Indiana to a Division II national championship in 1995 and was named Division II Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He has won three conference championships and two conference tournament championships as a Division I head coach, and has made eight NCAA Tournament appearances. Pearl was named Coach of the Year by Sporting News in 2006 and was awarded the Adolph Rupp Cup in 2008. He also served as the head coach for the Maccabi USA men's basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.

A native of Boston, Pearl attended Sharon High School (Massachusetts) in Sharon, Massachusetts and is a 1982 graduate of Boston College, where he served as the manager of the men's basketball team. He is married to Brandy. He has two daughters, Jacqui and Leah and two sons, Steven, who was on the Tennessee basketball team for four years, and Michael.

Before coming to Tennessee, Pearl was the head coach at Milwaukee and, prior to that, at Southern Indiana, where he won a Division II national championship. He also served as an assistant coach at Iowa under then-head coach Tom Davis.