Frank Haith
Frank Haith in March 2014 at Mizzou Arena
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Tulsa |
| Conference | The American |
| Record | 43–23 (.652) |
| Annual salary | $1.3 million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 3, 1965 Queens, New York |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1989 | Elon (asst.) |
| 1989–1990 | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| 1990–1992 | UNC Wilmington (asst.) |
| 1992–1995 | Texas A&M (asst.) |
| 1995–1996 | Penn State (asst.) |
| 1996–1997 | Texas A&M (asst.) |
| 1997–2001 | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| 2001–2004 | Texas (asst.) |
| 2004–2011 | Miami |
| 2011–2014 | Missouri |
| 2014–present | Tulsa |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 248–152 (.620) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Big 12 Tournament championship (2012) | |
| Awards | |
| AP Big 12 Coach of the Year (2012) Henry Iba Award (2012) AP National Coach of the Year (2012) |
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Frank James Haith, Jr. (born November 3, 1965) is the men's basketball head coach for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Haith had previously been the head coach at the University of Miami and the University of Missouri.
Frank Haith was born in Queens, New York to Frank Haith, Sr. and Dolores Haith. At the age of five, Haith was sent with his older sister to Burlington, North Carolina, where they were raised by their grandmother, Ethel Mae Haith. They were joined by their three remaining siblings six years later when their mother died of a heart attack.
Prior to his job at Miami, Haith had been an assistant coach for 15 years at such programs as Texas, Texas A&M, UNCW, Penn State, Wake Forest, and Elon University. As an assistant coach he recruited six McDonald's All-Americans, Rodney Rodgers in 1990 to Wake Forest, Jerald Brown in 1995 to Texas A&M, Brad Buckman in 2002 to Texas, and LaMarcus Aldridge, Daniel Gibson, and Michael Williams in 2004 to Texas.
Haith was hired on April 11, 2004 and tasked with leading the Hurricanes into the Atlantic Coast Conference. In his first season, Haith took a team that was coming off two straight losing seasons and picked to finish last in the ACC and guided it to the postseason for the first time since 2002. As a result, Haith was a finalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Award.
Haith again took Miami to the NIT in 2005, and the Hurricanes won their first two games before bowing out in a heartbreaking loss to the Michigan Wolverines. It was just the second time in Miami's basketball history that the Hurricanes had won back-to-back postseason games.
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