Shaka Smart
Smart speaks with an official in a game in November, 2013
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Texas |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 31–35 (.470) |
| Annual salary | $3,000,000 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 8, 1977 Madison, Wisconsin |
| Playing career | |
| 1995–1999 | Kenyon |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1999–2001 | California (PA) (asst.) |
| 2003–2006 | Akron (asst.) |
| 2006–2008 | Clemson (asst.) |
| 2008–2009 | Florida (asst.) |
| 2009–2015 | VCU |
| 2015–present | Texas |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2001–2003 | Dayton (basketball ops.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 194–91 (.681) |
| Tournaments | (NCAA): 7–6 (CBI): 5–0 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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CBI championship (2010) Regional Championship - Final Four (2011) CAA Tournament championship (2012) Atlantic 10 Tournament championship (2015) |
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Shaka Dingani Smart (born April 8, 1977) is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He currently is the head coach at the University of Texas.
In high school, Smart was a three-year starter for Oregon High School in Wisconsin. He was a second-team All-Badger Conference pick as a senior and by the end of his career was the all-time assists leader at Oregon for a career (458), season (201) and single game (20).
Smart attended Kenyon College, where he is the school's career assists leader (542). In 1999, as a senior, he was an All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection, named the NCAC Scholar Athlete of the Year, and among 20 students in the country selected for the USA Today All-USA Academic team. On ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, he credited his personal relationship with then head coach Bill Brown as the reason for his decision to attend the school.
Smart began his coaching career in 1999 as an assistant at California University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a master's degree. Afterwards, he was hired as Director of Basketball Operations at the University of Dayton. He was then an assistant at the University of Akron for three years, Clemson for two, and Florida for one.
VCU hired Smart to be the head coach in the spring of 2009 after the program's previous coach, Anthony Grant, left to become the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. Smart's hire made him the 10th-youngest head coach in Division I. In his first season, he led the Rams to a 27–10 season and a CBI Championship after VCU swept Saint Louis in the championship best-of-three series.
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