Marvin Menzies
Marvin Eugene Menzies (born October 15, 1961) is an American college basketball coach who was most recently the associate head coach at Grand Canyon University,
Menzies in 2017 as UNLV head coach. | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California | October 15, 1961
Alma mater | UCLA (BA, 1987) Sacramento State (MA, 2003) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1983–1991 | Hamilton HS (assistant) |
1991–1994 | Santa Monica (assistant) |
1994–1995 | Santa Monica |
1995–1996 | Santa Monica (assistant) |
1996–1997 | Sacramento State (assistant) |
1997–1999 | Santa Monica (assistant) |
1999–2003 | San Diego State (assistant) |
2003–2004 | USC (assistant) |
2004–2005 | UNLV (assistant) |
2005–2007 | Louisville (assistant) |
2007–2016 | New Mexico State |
2016–2019 | UNLV |
2019–2020 | Grand Canyon (assoc. HC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 246–159 (.607) |
Tournaments | NCAA: 0–5 NIT: 0–1 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3× WAC regular season championship (2008, 2015, 2016) 5× WAC Tournament championship (2010, 2012–2015) | |
Awards | |
WAC Coach of the Year (2015) |
He was named to the position at Grand Canyon on April 18, 2019. Menzies joined the Grand Canyon staff after 12 consecutive seasons as a head coach including a three-year run at UNLV and nine seasons at New Mexico State.[1] Menzies was not retained when Bryce Drew was named head coach of Grand Canyon in March 2020.[2]
Menzies was announced as UNLV head coach on April 17, 2016 as the successor to Chris Beard, who the previous week had accepted the head coaching position at Texas Tech.[3] Fired from UNLV in March of 2019, Menzies was replaced by former South Dakota State head coach T. J. Otzelberger.[4]
At New Mexico State, Menzies replaced previous coach Reggie Theus. Like Theus, Menzies came to NMSU after spending the previous two years as an assistant coach under Rick Pitino at the Louisville. In fact, Menzies had been hired by Louisville to replace Theus when he left that institution to take the head coaching job at NMSU in 2005. The NMSU job was Menzies' first head coaching position at a four-year institution. Menzies was the 24th person to hold the head coaching position in the history of Aggie basketball. Prior to his stint at Louisville, Menzies had previously served as an assistant coach at USC, San Diego State and Sacramento State and had served as head coach at Santa Monica College. He came to NMSU with 14 years of collegiate coaching experience.
Menzies holds a bachelor's degree in economics from UCLA and a master's in education from California State University, Sacramento. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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New Mexico State Aggies (Western Athletic Conference) (2007–2016) | |||||||||
2007–08 | New Mexico State | 21–14 | 12–4 | T–1st | |||||
2008–09 | New Mexico State | 17–15 | 9–7 | T–3rd | |||||
2009–10 | New Mexico State | 22–12 | 11–5 | T–2nd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2010–11 | New Mexico State | 16–17 | 9–7 | T–3rd | |||||
2011–12 | New Mexico State | 26–10 | 10–4 | 2nd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2012–13 | New Mexico State | 24–11 | 14–4 | 3rd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2013–14 | New Mexico State | 26–10 | 12–4 | 2nd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2014–15 | New Mexico State | 23–11 | 13–1 | 1st | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2015–16 | New Mexico State | 23–11 | 13–1 | 1st | NIT First Round | ||||
New Mexico State: | 198–111 (.641) | 103–37 (.736) | |||||||
UNLV Runnin' Rebels (Mountain West Conference) (2016–2019) | |||||||||
2016–17 | UNLV | 11–21 | 4–14 | 11th | |||||
2017–18 | UNLV | 20–13 | 8–10 | T–7th | |||||
2018–19 | UNLV | 17–14 | 11–7 | T–4th | |||||
UNLV: | 48–48 (.500) | 23–31 (.352) | |||||||
Total: | 246–159 (.607) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- "Grand Canyon hires Marvin Menzies as assistant coach". USA Today. Associated Press. April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- Obert, Richard (April 1, 2020). "New Grand Canyon basketball coach Bryce Drew adds 3 assistants to his staff". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- Goodman, Jeff (April 16, 2016). "UNLV agrees to hire Marvin Menzies as new head coach". ESPN. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- Murray, Chris (March 28, 2019). "Making sense of UNLV replacing Marvin Menzies with T.J. Otzelberger". Nevada Sports Net. Retrieved April 8, 2020.