Dave Rice (basketball)
| Dave Rice | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UNLV |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 29, 1968 Pomona, California |
| Playing career | |
| 1987–1989 1989–1991 |
Mt. San Antonio CC UNLV |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1991–1992 1992–1993 1993–2004 2004–2005 2005–2011 2011–present |
UNLV (grad. asst.) Chaffey CC (asst.) UNLV (asst.) Utah State (asst.) BYU (asst.) UNLV |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Championships MWC regular season (2000, 2007–2009, 2011) As player:
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David Wayne Rice (born August 29, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and the head men's basketball coach at UNLV. Rice replaced Lon Kruger as head coach of the Rebels on April 10, 2011.[1]
Playing career
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. He earned his bachelors from UNLV 1991 and a MBA in 1993, and was a Rhodes scholar candidate.
Coaching career
After graduating from UNLV, Rice became an assistant coach for the Rebels, where he spent 11 seasons under head coaches Jerry Tarkanian, Tim Grgurich, Bill Bayno and Charlie Spoonhour. He left for Utah State University when UNLV hired Lon Kruger, and later was an assistant coach under Dave Rose at Brigham Young University.
He was hired to replace Kruger at UNLV in 2011.
UNLV
UNLV has compiled wins over in-state rival Nevada,[2] a then-#19 Illinois, California,[3] with his staple coming on November 26, 2011 as UNLV beat then-#1 North Carolina 90–80 in the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational.[4]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| UNLV Runnin' Rebels (Mountain West Conference) (2011–present) | |||||||||
| 2011–12 | UNLV | 26–9 | 9–5 | 3rd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
| 2012–13 | UNLV | 25–10 | 10–6 | 3rd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
| 2013–14 | UNLV | 20–13 | 10–8 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2014–15 | UNLV | 18–15 | 8–10 | 7th | |||||
| UNLV: | 89–47 (.654) | 37–29 (.561) | |||||||
| Total: | 89–47 (.654) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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