Alvin Brooks

Alvin Brooks is a former head coach of the University of Houston's men's basketball team. He coached the Houston Cougars from 1993 to 1998. He also served as an assistant coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team and was at Texas A&M [ [http://www.aggieathletics.com/pressRelease.php?PRID=12281 Texas A&M Athletics No. 6 Aggies Put Winning Streak on Line Against Red Raiders ] ] through the '06-'07 season.

On July 23, 2007, a Lexington, KY media outlet reported that Brooks had been hired as an assistant coach by Billy Gillispie at the University of Kentucky. This has not yet been confirmed by the university or Gillispie; however, Brooks' name has been circulating for months as a possible assistant at UK.

Head coaching record

CFB Yearly Record Subhead
name = Houston Cougars
conf = Southwest Conference
startyear = 1993
endyear = 1995CFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1993
name = Houston
overall = 8–19
conference = 5-9
confstanding = sixth
postseason = no
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1994
name = Houston
overall = 9-19
conference = 5-9
confstanding = sixth
postseason = no
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1995
name = Houston
overall = 17-10
conference = 10-3
confstanding = second
postseason = no
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Houston
overall = 34–48
confrecord = CFB Yearly Record Subhead
name = Houston Cougars
conf = Conference USA
startyear = 1996
endyear = 1998CFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1996
name = Houston
overall = 11–16
conference = 3-11
confstanding = 4th, White Division
postseason = no
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1997
name = Houston
overall = 9–20
conference = 2-14
confstanding = 5th, National Division
postseason = no
ranking = no
ranking2 = no

CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Houston
overall = 20–36
confrecord = CFB Yearly Record End
overall = 54–84
poll = no

References

External links

* [http://www.redraiders.com/news/99/07/01/houston.htm Brooks's hiring at Texas Tech]
* [http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/mar/03-18-98/sports/sports8.html Brooks 1998 article]