Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
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1995–2008 | Murray State (asst.) |
2008–2017 | Murray State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 120–147 (.449) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
OVC regular season championship (2009) | |
Awards | |
OVC Coach of the Year (2009) | |
Rob Cross is an American former college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Murray State Racers women's basketball team for nine seasons, leaving as the winningest coach in the programs history. [1] [2]
Cross graduated from Murray State University with a degree in music in 1991 and subsequently worked as an associate high school band director. [2]
He served as assistant coach of the Racers from 1995 through 2008, [3] before serving as head coach until 2017. [4] In 2009, he was named Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year after his team won the regular season championship. [5]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Murray State University (Ohio Valley Conference)(2008–2017) | |||||||||
2008–09 | Murray State | 23–9 | 16–2 | 1st | 1–1 (WNIT) | ||||
2009–10 | Murray State | 13–17 | 8–10 | 4th tie | |||||
2010–11 | Murray State | 9–21 | 5–13 | 7th tie | |||||
2011–12 | Murray State | 13–18 | 8–8 | 5th | |||||
2012–13 | Murray State | 16–13 | 8–8 | 4th West | |||||
2013–14 | Murray State | 11–17 | 4–12 | 6th West | |||||
2014–15 | Murray State | 8–21 | 3–13 | t-10th | |||||
2015–16 | Murray State | 12–17 | 7–9 | t-7th | |||||
2016–17 | Murray State | 15–14 | 7–11 | 8th | |||||
Total: | 120–147 (.449) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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