Chris Mack (basketball)

Chris Mack
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Xavier
Biographical details
Born	December 30, 1969 (1969-12-30) (age 41)
Place of birth	Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Playing career
1988–1990 1990–1993	University of Evansville Xavier
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1993-1994 1995–1999 1999–2001 2001–2004 2004–2009 2009–present	McAuley HS Junior Varsity Mount Notre Dame HS Xavier (asst.) Wake Forest (asst.) Xavier (asst.) Xavier
Head coaching record
Overall	50-17 (.746)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
A-10 Regular Season Championship (2010, 2011) A-10 Coach of the Year (2011)

Chris Mack (born December 30, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American college basketball coach, and the current head men's basketball coach at Xavier University. On April 15, 2009 it was announced that Mack would replace Sean Miller, who left Xavier to coach at the University of Arizona.^[1]

Background

Mack graduated in 1988 from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and continued on to the University of Evansville, where he played basketball for two seasons.^[2][3] He transferred to Xavier in 1990, where he played his final two seasons of eligibility (after redshirting one for transfer rules), and graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in Communication Arts.^[3] He is married to Christi Mack (Hester), a former University of Dayton guard (1996–2000).^[4]

Coaching career

Mack started his coaching career as junior varsity head coach at McAuley High School - an all-girls high school in Cincinnati, Ohio - in 1993. In 1995, Mack was named head coach of the girl's varsity basketball team at Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading, Ohio, where he received the 1996 coach of the year from the Cincinnati Post. In 1999 he was named Director of Basketball Operations at Xavier, under the late Skip Prosser, whom he followed as an assistant coach to Wake Forest in 2001. In 2004 he returned to Xavier, joining new head coach Sean Miller as his assistant. When Miller moved to the University of Arizona in 2009, Mack was hired as Xavier's head coach. He got off to a fast recruiting start his first summer as coach, landing top-ranked prospects Jordan Latham, Justin Martin, Griffin McKenzie, and Jay Canty for the 2010–11 season.^[3] Xavier achieved its first top 25 ranking under Chris Mack on March 1, 2010 when it made its season debut in the Associated Press Poll at #25.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Xavier (Atlantic 10 Conference) (2009–present)
2009–2010	Xavier	26–9	14–2	T-1st	NCAA Sweet 16
2010–2011	Xavier	24–8	15–1	1st	NCAA First Round
Total:		50-17
National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion

References

1. ^ "Chris Mack Introduced As Xavier's New Men's Basketball Head Coach". http://www.goxavier.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041409aaa.html. Retrieved 16 April 2009. 
2. ^ "2006 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees". St. Xavier High School. http://www.stxavier.org/s/106/stxavier.aspx?pgid=1422. Retrieved 2009-04-16. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Player Bio: Chris Mack". http://www.goxavier.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/mack_chris00.html. Retrieved 13 December 2009. 
4. ^ http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayton-sports/university-of-dayton-flyers/christi-mack-knows-both-sides-of-ud-xavier-rivalry-92101.html

Persondata
Name	Mack, Chris
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Date of birth	1969-12-30
Place of birth	Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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