Washington Assistant Coach Dave Rice
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Sport(s) | Men's basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Washington |
Conference | Pac-12 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Pomona, California |
August 29, 1968
Playing career | |
1987–1989 | Mt. San Antonio CC |
1989–1991 | UNLV |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1991–1992 | UNLV (grad. asst.) |
1993–1994 | Chaffey CC (asst.) |
1994–2004 | UNLV (asst.) |
2004–2005 | Utah State (asst.) |
2005–2011 | BYU (assoc. HC) |
2011–2016 | UNLV |
2016–2017 | Nevada (asst.) |
2017–present | Washington (asst.) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 98–54 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
MWC regular season (2000, 2007–2009, 2011, 2017) |
MWC regular season (2000, 2007–2009, 2011, 2017)
Mountain West Tournament (2000, 2017)
Big West Tournament (2005)
WAC regular season (1999)
WAC Tournament (1998)
Big West regular season (1992)
As player:
David Wayne Rice (born August 29, 1968) is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach at the University of Washington. Rice is the former head men's basketball coach at UNLV where he ranks as the program's third winningest coach. He spent the 2016-2017 season as an assistant coach at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Rice played for legendary UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, part of the 1989-90 UNLV Runnin' Rebels squad that won the NCAA men's basketball championship. Rice was also a member of the 1990-91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team that went 34-1 and advanced to the 1991 Final Four. He earned his bachelor's degree from UNLV in 1991 and an MBA in 1993, and was a Rhodes scholar candidate.
After graduating from UNLV, Rice began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach for Jerry Tarkanian during the 1991-92 season. That team finished 26-2 and was #7 in the final AP poll.
Rice spent the 1992-93 year as an assistant coach at Claremont High School for his father, Lowell Rice. Claremont High School finished 21-7 and won the Baseline League Championship.