52, UC Irvine ... The Anteaters’...

52, UC Irvine ... The Anteaters’ men’s basketball coach for the

past five years ... Guided Irvine to its second straight Big West

Conference regular-season championship last season, as the Anteaters

shared the title with Utah State. UCI had never won a title prior to

the 2000-01 season ... Led the Anteaters to a 21-11 record, the first

back-to-back 20-win seasons in the school’s history, as his squad

finished 25-5 the previous year... In March 1997, he became UCI coach

after leading Cal State Bakersfield to three NCAA Division II titles

in five years ... Is part of an elite list of only six coaches in

NCAA basketball history (Divisions I and II) to have won three or

more national championships, including UCLA’s John Wooden, Duke’s

Mike Krzyzewski, and Indiana’s Bob Knight ... Unranked last year