Lamont Paris

Lamont Paris is an American college basketball coach and current head coach at Chattanooga.[1][2]

Lamont Paris
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamChattanooga
ConferenceSoCon
Record42–56 (.429)
Biographical details
BornFindlay, Ohio
Playing career
1992–1996Wooster
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–1998Wooster (assistant)
1999–2000DePauw (assistant)
2001–2004IUP (assistant)
2005–2010Akron (assistant)
2010–2017Wisconsin (assistant)
2017–presentChattanooga
Head coaching record
Overall42–56 (.429)

Playing career

Paris played college basketball at The College of Wooster, Ohio, where he was captain for his junior and senior seasons while also being a two-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection.[3]

Coaching career

After beginning his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater during the 1997-98 season, Paris moved on to assistant coaching stints at DePauw and IUP before landing on Keith Dambrot's staff at Akron where he stayed for five seasons. Paris then joined Bo Ryan's staff at Wisconsin in 2010, and was a part of two Sweet 16 squads and the Badgers' Final Four and national championship game appearances during the 2013–14 and 2014-15 seasons. When Ryan stepped down, Paris was elevated to associate head coach under Greg Gard when Gard was given the job on a permanent basis.

On April 4, 2017, Paris was introduced as the 20th head coach in Chattanooga history, replacing Matt McCall who left to become the head coach at Massachusetts.[4]

Head coaching record

NCAA D1
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Chattanooga (SoCon) (2017–present)
2017–18 Chattanooga 10–233–1510th
2018–19 Chattanooga 12–207–115th
2019–20 Chattanooga 20–1310–8T–5th
Chattanooga: 42–56 (.429)17–32 (.317)
Total:42–56 (.429)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References
  1. "Paris Introduced as 20th Head Basketball Coach".
  2. "Paris to Become 20th Chattanooga Mocs Head Basketball Coach".
  3. "Wisconsin Athletics - Staff Directory".
  4. "Chattanooga hires Lamont Paris as next head coach". Coaches Database. April 3, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.


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