Mick Cronin (basketball)

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Michael "Mick" Cronin

Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Cincinnati
Record	156–101 (.607)
Biographical details
Born	(1971-07-17) July 17, 1971 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA^[1]
Alma mater	University of Cincinnati
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1996 1997–2001 2001–2003 2003–2006 2006–present	Woodward HS (asst.) Cincinnati (asst.) Louisville (asst.) Murray State Cincinnati
Head coaching record
Overall	225–125 (.643)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships OVC Tournament Championship (2004, 2006) OVC Regular Season Championship (2006)
Awards Athlon assistant coach of the year (2003) OVC Coach of the Year (2006)

Michael "Mick" Cronin (born (1971-07-17)July 17, 1971^[2]) is the current head coach of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team. From 1991 to 1996, he served as a varsity assistant coach and junior varsity coach at Woodward High School in his native hometown Cincinnati,^[2] then moved on as an assistant under Bob Huggins at the University of Cincinnati, and then under Rick Pitino at Louisville. Cronin's first head coaching job was at Murray State,^[3] hired in 2003.^[4] In three seasons at Murray, Cronin led the team to the NCAA Tournament twice and was named the 2006 Ohio Valley Conference coach of the year.

After the 2005-2006 season, he was hired as Cincinnati's coach, replacing interim coach Andy Kennedy after the dismissal of Bob Huggins.^[5] Cronin had to pick up the pieces from a depleted program after Huggins was asked to resign with no warning three months before the 2005 season, and a temporary coach was used for a season. Due to the school having little to no recruiting going on for around a full calendar year, Cronin was forced to scrounge for players. He even had a couple players on the football team play, one being current Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin. Although Cronin's teams struggled early in his UC career, he improved the school's win total each of his first five seasons. Since the beginning of the 2010 season, he has amassed a 95-33 record and has lead UC to three straight NCAA Tournament births and a Sweet 16 appearance. Cronin is also the only UC coach to ever lead the Bearcats to a win over a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament (6 seeded Cincinnati defeated 3 seeded Florida State in 2012).

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Murray State (Ohio Valley Conference) (2003–2006)
2003–2004	Murray State	28–6	14–2	2nd	NCAA First Round
2004–2005	Murray State	17–11	11–5	T–2nd
2005–2006	Murray State	24–7	17–3	1st	NCAA First Round
Murray State:		69–24 (.742)	42–10 (.808)
Cincinnati (Big East Conference) (2006–2013)
2006–2007	Cincinnati	11–19	2–14	16th
2007–2008	Cincinnati	13–19	8–10	10th	CBI First Round
2008–2009	Cincinnati	18–14	8–10	10th
2009–2010	Cincinnati	19–16	7–11	11th	NIT Second Round
2010–2011	Cincinnati	26–9	11–7	6th	NCAA Third Round
2011–2012	Cincinnati	26–11	12–6	4th	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2012–2013	Cincinnati	22–11	9–9	9th	NCAA Second Round
Cincinnati (American Athletic Conference) (2013–present)
2013–2014	Cincinnati	22–2	11–0	1st
Cincinnati:		157–101 (.609)	68–67 (.504)
Total:		226–125 (.644)
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

References

Murray State Racers men's basketball head coaches

Carlisle Cutchin (1925–1941)
Rice Mountjoy (1941–1942)
John Miller (1942–1947)
Carlisle Cutchin # (1947–1948)
Harlan Hodges (1948–1954)
Rex Alexander (1954–1958)
Cal Luther (1958–1974)
Fred Overton (1974–1978)
Ron Greene (1978–1985)
Steve Newton (1985–1991)
Scott Edgar (1991–1995)
Mark Gottfried (1995–1998)
Tevester Anderson (1998–2003)
Mick Cronin (2003–2006)
Billy Kennedy (2006–2011)
Steve Prohm (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball head coaches

Henry S. Pratt (1901–1902)
Anthony Chez (1902–1904)
Amos Foster (1904–1909)
C. A. Shroetter (1909–1910)
Russell Easton (1910–1914)
George Little (1914–1916)
Ion Cortright (1916–1917)
Whitelaw Morrison (1917–1918)
Boyd Chambers (1918–1928)
Frank E. Rice (1928–1932)
John Halliday (1932–1933)
Tay Brown (1933–1937)
Walter Van Winkle (1937–1939)
Clark Ballard (1939–1942)
Robert Reuss (1942–1944)
Ray Farnham (1944–1946)
John Wiethe (1946–1952)
George Smith (1952–1960)
Ed Jucker (1960–1965)
Tay Baker (1965–1972)
Gale Catlett (1972–1978)
Ed Badger (1978–1983)
Tony Yates (1983–1989)
Bob Huggins (1989–2005)
Andy Kennedy (2005–2006)
Mick Cronin (2006–)

v t e Current men's basketball head coaches of the American Athletic Conference

Mick Cronin (Cincinnati) Kevin Ollie (Connecticut) James Dickey (Houston) Rick Pitino (Louisville) Josh Pastner (Memphis) Eddie Jordan (Rutgers) Larry Brown (SMU) Stan Heath (South Florida) Fran Dunphy (Temple) Donnie Jones (UCF)

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Persondata
Name	Cronin, Mick
Alternative names
Short description	NCAA men's basketball coach
Date of birth	1971-7-17
Place of birth	Cincinnati, Ohio
Date of death
Place of death

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