Joe Golding (basketball)
Joe Golding (born October 15, 1975) is an American basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach for The University of Texas at El Paso, former head coach for Abilene Christian University and a former assistant coach at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.[1]
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UTEP |
| Conference | C-USA |
| Record | 4–3 (.571) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 15, 1975 Wichita Falls, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1994–1998 | Abilene Christian |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000–2001 | South Garland HS (assistant) |
| 2001–2002 | Seminole JC (assistant) |
| 2002–2004 | Sachse HS |
| 2004–2005 | Collin County CC (assistant) |
| 2005–2008 | Abilene Christian (assistant) |
| 2008–2011 | Arkansas–Little Rock (assistant) |
| 2011–2021 | Abilene Christian |
| 2021–present | UTEP |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 162–147 (.524) (college) 33–24 (high school) |
| Tournaments | 1–2 (NCAA) 0–1 (CIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Southland Tournament (2019, 2021) | |
| Awards | |
| Southland Coach of the Year (2019) | |
Abilene Christian
Abilene Christian was a member of the Division I Southland Conference from 1968-73, and then dropped down to Division II's Lone Star Conference for a span of forty years (1973-2013).
In the last eight seasons, Golding, a former Wildcat player, has led Abilene Christian from the Lone Star Conference back into the Southland Conference and Division I basketball. Since the Wildcat's return to Division I, the program has shown steady improvement each year - culminating in the team's first winning regular-season since returning to Division I (16-15 in 2017-18) and setting the all-time school record for Division I wins (27) in the 2018-19 season. The previous record for Division I wins was 17. On February 13, 2019, ACU registered its first ever 20-win season in Division I. The following season (2019-20), ACU registered its first ever back-to-back 20-win seasons in Division I. On March 21, 2021, Golding led Abilene Christian to their first NCAA tournament win, knocking off 3-seed Texas by one.
Quick facts
-2019 Southland Conference Coach of the Year
-2019 NCAA Tournament Appearance (First in School History)
-2021 NCAA Tournament Appearance
-First 20-win Division I season in school history (2019)
-First back-to-back 20-win Division I seasons in school history (2019-20)
-First back-to-back-to-back 20-win Division I seasons in school history (2019-21) [ACU had a total of three 20-win seasons in Division II in the previous 97 years]
-Most regular season wins in school history - 25 (2019)
-Finalist for Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award (2019)
-Recruited and coached Southland Conference Freshman of the Year in back-to-back seasons (Jaylen Franklin - 2016; Jalone Friday - 2017)
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abilene Christian Wildcats (Lone Star Conference) (2011–2013) | |||||||||
| 2011–12 | Abilene Christian | 12–16 | 4–14 | ||||||
| 2012–13 | Abilene Christian | 12–14 | 6–12 | ||||||
| Abilene Christian Wildcats (Southland Conference) (2013–2021) | |||||||||
| 2013–14 | Abilene Christian | 11–20 | 2–12 | 13th | |||||
| 2014–15 | Abilene Christian | 10–21 | 4–14 | 12th | |||||
| 2015–16 | Abilene Christian | 13–18 | 8–10 | 7th | |||||
| 2016–17 | Abilene Christian | 13–16 | 7–11 | T–8th | |||||
| 2017–18 | Abilene Christian | 16–16 | 8–10 | T–8th | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2018–19 | Abilene Christian | 27–7 | 14–4 | 2nd | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2019–20 | Abilene Christian | 20–11 | 15–5 | T–2nd | |||||
| 2020–21 | Abilene Christian | 24–5 | 13–2 | 2nd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| Abilene Christian: | 158–144 (.523) | 71–68 (.511) | |||||||
| UTEP Miners (Conference USA) (2021–present) | |||||||||
| 2021–22 | UTEP | 4–3 | 0–0 | ||||||
| UTEP: | 4–3 (.571) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
| Total: | 162–147 (.524) | ||||||||