Mike Carey (basketball)

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Mike Carey
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Current position
Title Assistant Coach
Team UCF
Conference Big 12
Biographical details
Born (1958-07-04) July 4, 1958 (age 66)
Clarksburg, West Virginia
Playing career
1977–1980Salem International University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1980–1983Flemington HS
1983–1987 Liberty HS
1987–1988 Salem (men's asst.)
1988–2001 Salem / Salem-Teikyo (men's)
2001–2022 West Virginia
2023–present UCF (women's assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall736–342 (.683)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
WVIAC Freshman of the year (1977)
2× Big East Coach of the Year (2004, 2010)

Michael Alan Carey (born July 4, 1958) [1] is the former head coach of the West Virginia University women's basketball team. He had previously served as head basketball coach for the Salem International University men's basketball team.

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Carey played basketball for Salem International University, earning a letter in each of his four years at the school. [2] In his freshman year, he was named the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference freshman of the year, [2] an honor his son would win in 2006. [3]

High school

Born and raised in Clarksburg, West Virginia, [4] Carey was active in three sports while attending Liberty High School. [5]

College career

Carey played basketball each of his four years at Salem. He was named the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) freshman of the year in 1977. He went on to be the conference scoring leader in 1978, and earned MVP honors for Salem in 1979. In that year, he was also named to the WVIAC all-conference team. In his four years at Salem, he scored over 2,000 points. [6] Carey was named to the Salem Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. [2]

Coaching career

Flemington and Clarksburg Liberty

After graduating from Salem in 1980 with a degree in physical education, [6] Carey was offered a position to be an assistant coach of the boys' team at the high school Flemington, West Virginia. Carey was interested, but the job offer came with a catch. He also had to be the head coach of the girls' team. He accepted the offer. [7] He went on to coach girls' basketball at the high school level for seven years, in Flemington and at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In his final year as high school coach, he earned coach of the year honors from Harrison County and coached the team to the regional finals. [8]

Salem

Carey returned to his alma mater and became the assistant coach for the Salem men's basketball program in 1987. After one year as an assistant he became the head coach in 1988. The program did not have a history of success, posting an 8–19 record in the year before he took over, [6] but Carey coached the team to a winning record in his first year as head coach. In thirteen seasons, his teams had only one losing record. In nine of the thirteen years, the team won more than 20 games. Twice, the teams made it to the Division II Elite eight and in 1997, the team made it to the Division II Final Four. [8]

Carey celebrated his milestone 250th victory on January 29, 2000, in an 86–76 victory over Shepherd College. At the time, he had coached teams to the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship five times. [9] By the time he completed his coaching career at Salem, teams he coached made seven post-season appearances, with five in the NCAA division II tournaments, and two in the NAIA tournaments. [10]

West Virginia

Carey took over a team that had only five wins in its previous season. [11] In his first season, the team improved to 14–14, and has had only one losing season since (15–16 in 2005–06). On January 29, 2008, West Virginia would upset Rutgers University, then ranked #4 in the country, representing the highest ranked team they had beaten in school history. [11]

Carey talking to Coaching staff at WVU-UConn game 4 January 2012 Mike Carey at Veteran Memorial Coliseum.jpg
Carey talking to Coaching staff at WVU-UConn game 4 January 2012

In 2007–08, the team earned its first top 20 ranking in school history, reaching as high as 11th place in both major polls. They ended the year at 25–8, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. [6]

In 2009–10, West Virginia won a school-record 29 games. The team was ranked as high as #7 in the AP Poll during the year, and reached semi-finals of the Big East women's basketball tournament, only to fall to Connecticut. Despite the success of the year, Carey still has not achieved one of his goals—to beat Connecticut. He said, "This is my 10th year and we've beat every team in the conference except Connecticut". [12] The team was undefeated at home for only the second time in program history. The Big East voted him co-coach of the year, along with Geno Auriemma. [6]

Carey's 200th win at West Virginia occurred on February 19, 2011, in a game against Pittsburgh. West Virginia had failed to win in their previous three attempts to reach the 200 win milestone, but the team prevailed against Pittsburgh 90–79. [13]

After a 24–10 season in 2011, Carey's Mountaineers lost five seniors to graduation. The team had four incoming freshman for the upcoming, a class ranked #21, by ESPNU HoopGurlz. [14]

On December 28, Carey's team helped him reach a milestone–his 500th career victory. The game didn't start out like it would finish—opponent Bucknell University started out with a 6–2 lead before the Mountaineers ran off 12 straight points to take a large lead. West Virginia ended up winning easily, 72–30, leading to Carey's 212th win at West Virginia, and his 500th career victory, after 228 wins at Salem. [7] [15]

Carey's team achieved their biggest win in basketball history on February 12, 2011, when they beat Notre Dame at Notre Dame 65–53. Notre Dame had only a single loss prior to the win, and was ranked # 2 in the nation, by both the AP and ESPN Coaches poll. [16]

On March 16, 2022, Carey announced his retirement as the head coach of the WVU women's basketball team citing that he wanted to spend more time with family. He retired as the winningest women's basketball coach in the university's history and took the team to the NCAA tournament ten times. [17]

In 2022, Carey was replaced by Dawn Plitzuweit who previously served as the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of South Dakota. After a first-round loss in the 2023 NCAA tournament in, she announced her hiring by the University of Minnesota. In response to this, Carey announced his interest in returning as the head coach of the women's team at WVU. [18]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Salem International University (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)(1988–2001)
1988–89Salem 14–13
1989–90Salem 19–12
1990–91Salem 22–9
1991–92Salem 9–17
1992–93Salem 25–7
1993–94Salem 24–4
1994–95Salem 17–10
1995–96Salem 20–9
1996–97Salem 28–3
1997–98Salem 28–3
1998–99Salem 28–4
1999–00Salem 28–4
2000–01Salem 26–7
Salem:288–102 (.738)
West Virginia (Big East Conference)(2001–2011)
2001–02West Virginia 14–146–1010th
2002–03West Virginia 15–134–12T-11th
2003–04West Virginia 21–1110–6T-6th NCAA 1st Round
2004–05West Virginia 21–137–9T-6th WNIT Runner-up
2005–06West Virginia 15–164–1212th
2006–07West Virginia 21–1111–54th NCAA 2nd Round
2007–08West Virginia 25–812–43rd NCAA 2nd Round
2008–09West Virginia 18–155–11T-11th WNIT 2nd round
2009–10 West Virginia 29–613–3T-2nd NCAA 2nd Round
2010–11West Virginia 24–108–810th NCAA 2nd Round
2011–12West Virginia 24–1011–5T-4th NCAA 2nd Round
West Virginia (Big East):227–127 (.641)91–76 (.545)
West Virginia (Big 12 Conference)(2012–2022)
2012–13 West Virginia 17–149–9T-5th NCAA 1st Round
2013–14 West Virginia 30–516–2T-1st NCAA 2nd Round
2014–15 West Virginia 23–157–11T–7th WNIT Runner Up
2015–16 West Virginia 25–1012–63rd NCAA 2nd Round
2016–17 West Virginia 24–118–106th NCAA 2nd Round
2017–18 West Virginia 25–128–106th WNIT semifinals
2018–19 West Virginia 22–1111–7T-4th WNIT 3rd Round
2019–20 West Virginia 17–127–11T-6thPostseason Cancelled
2020–21 West Virginia 22–713–5T-2nd NCAA 2nd Round
2021–22 West Virginia 15–157–117th
West Virginia (Big 12):219–111 (.664)98–82 (.544)
West Virginia (Overall):462–254 (.645)
Total:735–341 (.683)

      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

Personal

Mike Carey is married to Cheryl (Minnix) Carey. Together, they have four children—Chris, Chelsy, Craig and Chelby. Chris played basketball for Fairmont State, [10] where he won the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference freshman of the year, an award also won by his father. [3] Craig played on the practice team for the women's team, a team made up of men and women who serve as a practice squad for the varsity team. He is now on the West Virginia University men's basketball team. [19] Chelsy Carey is on the cheer leading squad for the women's team. [20] Chelby Carey played basketball for the Morgantown High School girls' basketball team. [21] [22]

Awards and honors

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