- Jim Wooldridge
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Name = Jim Wooldridge
Sport =Basketball
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College = UC Riverside
Title = Head coach
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Championships = Southland Tournament Championship (1994)
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OverallRecord = 312-237 (.568)
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CoachYears = 1977–1978
1978–1982
1982–1985
1985–1991
1991–1994
1994–1998
1998–2000
2000–2006
2007–present
CoachTeams = Louisiana Tech (asst.)
East Central (asst.)
Central Missouri State (asst.)
Central Missouri State
Texas State
Louisiana TechChicago Bulls (asst.)
Kansas State
UC Riverside
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BBallHOF =Jim Wooldridge is the head men's basketball coach at the
University of California, Riverside . He previously held the same position atTexas State University-San Marcos ,Kansas State University andLouisiana Tech University . He was also an assistant with theChicago Bulls under former college teammateTim Floyd . UC Riverside is the latest rebuilding project he has taken over. He inherited an NCAA sanctioned Louisiana Tech team and a Kansas State team that had won just nine games the previous season. While improving the Kansas State Wildcat program after six years and failing to make the postseason he was ultimately let go. He went on to work in the athletic department for Texas State before becoming the head coach at UC Riverside. His former assistant at Texas State and Kansas StateMike Miller is the head coach atEastern Illinois University . In his first year at UC Riverside, Wooldridge led the team to their first postseason victory in four years; a 62-54 victory over Cal Poly in the first round of the Big West tournament.Coaching record
Jim Wooldridge is married to Annie Wooldridge they have two children Jamie and Eric Wooldridge.
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