Mike Neighbors
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| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Arkansas |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 0–0 (–) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 29, 1969 Greenwood, Arkansas |
| Alma mater |
University of Arkansas – Fort Smith University of Arkansas |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–1998 | Bentonville HS |
| 1998–1999 | Cabot HS |
| 2001–2005 | Tulsa (asst.) |
| 2005–2006 | Colorado (asst.) |
| 2006–2007 | Arkansas (asst.) |
| 2007–2010 | Xavier (asst.) |
| 2011–2013 | Washington (asst.) |
| 2013–2017 | Washington |
| 2017–present | Arkansas |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1999–2001 | Arkansas (dir. of ops.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 98–41 |
| Tournaments | 6–2 (NCAA) 3–1 (WNIT) |
Michael Earl Neighbors (born March 29, 1969) is the University of Arkansas head women's basketball coach. He will be in his fifth year as a head coach, and the first at his alma mater.
Neighbors was born and raised in Greenwood, Arkansas, where he played basketball at Greenwood High School. His family was very involved in the school system, as teachers, school secretaries, assistant superintendent and superintendent positions. Neighbors completed his associate degree at Westark Community College (now the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith) in 1989 and bachelor's degree at the University of Arkansas in 1993.
In 1994, Neighbors became head girls' basketball coach at Bentonville High School in Bentonville, Arkansas. The team improved from a 1–24 record in his first season to winning at least 18 games each of the next three seasons and reached the state finals in 1997.
Neighbors then took the same job at Cabot High School in Cabot, Arkansas in 1998 and taught biology at the school also. During his year at Cabot, he was playing some pickup basketball. He had bet a high school player he could dunk. He won and played five pickup games that morning. After going home, he was resting on his couch when he experienced a heart attack. Doctors placed two stents in his chest to help with the blood flow, and he was back to coaching the following Friday. However, he decided he had to change his life and he resigned the head coaching position to take an administrative job at the University of Arkansas. The change resulted in a substantial pay cut.
From 1999 to 2001, Neighbors was director of operations for Arkansas Razorbacks women's basketball. Neighbors explains his philosophy: "...be the head coach of whatever they ask you to do." He quickly moved upward to additional responsibilities. Coach Gary Blair asked him to help out with camps, then with viewing opponents' videos to write scouting reports.
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