Chris Mack (basketball)
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Xavier |
| Conference | Big East |
| Record | 187–90 (.675) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 30, 1969 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1988–1990 | Evansville |
| 1991–1993 | Xavier |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1993–1994 | McAuley HS (JV) |
| 1995–1999 | Mount Notre Dame HS |
| 1999–2001 | Xavier (asst.) |
| 2001–2004 | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| 2004–2009 | Xavier (asst.) |
| 2009–present | Xavier |
| Head coaching record | |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 9–6 (.600) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Atlantic 10 regular season championship (2010, 2011) | |
| Awards | |
| Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2011) Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award (2011) Henry Iba Award (2016) |
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Chris Mack (born December 30, 1969) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Xavier University.
Chris Mack was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in North College Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. He graduated in 1988 from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, where he was named 1987-88 Cincinnati Post Metro Player of the Year.
Mack continued on to the University of Evansville, where he played basketball for two seasons and played tuba in band. He then transferred to Xavier in 1990, where he played his final two seasons of eligibility (after redshirting one for transfer rules), and graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in Communication Arts. He is married to Christi Mack (Hester), a former University of Dayton guard (1996–2000). They have three children and reside in Northern Kentucky. In 2017, he earned an honorary degree from Arizona State after beating Arizona in the NCAA tournament
Mack started his coaching career as junior varsity head coach at McAuley High School, an all-girls high school in Cincinnati, in 1993. In 1995, Mack was named head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading, Ohio, where he received the 1996 Coach of the Year award from the Cincinnati Post.
In 1999, he was named Director of Basketball Operations at Xavier, serving under the late Skip Prosser, whom he followed as an assistant coach to Wake Forest in 2001.
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