Steve McClain

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Steve McClain
Current position
TitleAssistant coach
TeamGeorgia
ConferenceSEC
Biographical details
Born (1962-08-15) August 15, 1962 (age 59)
Orient, Iowa
Alma materChadron State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1984Chadron State (asst.)
1984Sioux Empire JC (asst.)
1985Independence CC (asst.)
1986–1991Hutchinson CC (asst.)
1991–1994Hutchinson CC
1994–1998TCU (asst.)
1998–2007Wyoming
2007–2010Colorado (asst.)
2010–2015Indiana (asst.)
2015–2020UIC
2020–presentGeorgia (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall232–207 (.528)
Tournaments(NCAA): 1–1
(NIT): 2–3
(CBI): 2–1
(CIT): 3–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2× MWC regular season champions (2001, 2002)
Awards
MWC Coach of the Year (2002)

Steven James McClain (born August 15, 1962) is an assistant basketball coach at Georgia. He was most recently head coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] Prior to UIC, he had spent five seasons on the staff of Tom Crean at Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team.


Coaching career[]

Wyoming[]

McClain was the head basketball coach at Wyoming from 1998 to 2006. In four out of his 9 seasons, Wyoming had made it to either the NCAA tournament, or the NIT tournament. His overall record at Wyoming was 157–115. However, after a disappointing 2006 campaign where he went 17–15, with no NIT berth, he was fired. In the 2002 NCAA tournament, Wyoming made it to the second round, which was their best finish in a long time. He was named the MWC coach of the year that season.

Steve McClain was known for his very animated and intense coaching style during games.[citation needed]

His teams have won two regular season conference championships. In six out of the 8 seasons he has coached in the MWC, at least one of his players has received First team All MWC honors. From 2000 to 2002, the Cowboys won at least 20 games in all three of their seasons, marking the first time that happened in two decades.

UIC[]

McClain parted ways with UIC after five seasons on March 13, 2020 after a 18–17 season that fell 1 win short of an NCAA Tournament bid.[2][3]

Assistant coach[]

As an assistant at Colorado, McClain served as acting head coach during the absence of head coach Jeff Bzdelik for a portion of the 2009–10 season. He helped lead the Buffaloes to a 15–16 record, with seven of those losses coming by six points or less.

On April 22, 2020, Georgia announced the hiring of McClain as an assistant coach, reuniting him with Tom Crean who was the head coach at Indiana where McClain was the assistant for the 2010–15 seasons.[4]

Head coaching record[]

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Wyoming Cowboys (WAC) (1998–1999)
1998–99 Wyoming 18–10 7–7 T–4th (Mountain) NIT Second Round
Wyoming Cowboys (Mountain West) (1999–2007)
1999–00 Wyoming 19–12 8–6 T–4th
2000–01 Wyoming 20–10 10–4 T–1st NIT First Round
2001–02 Wyoming 22–9 11–3 1st NCAA Second Round
2002–03 Wyoming 21–11 8–6 T–4th NIT Second Round
2003–04 Wyoming 11–17 4–10 8th
2004–05 Wyoming 15–13 7–7 T–4th
2005–06 Wyoming 14–18 5–11 7th
2006–07 Wyoming 17–15 7–9 5th
Wyoming: 157–115 (.577) 73–71 (.507)
UIC Flames (Horizon) (2015–2020)
2015–16 UIC 5–25 3–15 10th
2016–17 UIC 17–19 7–11 6th CBI Semifinals
2017–18 UIC 20–16 12–6 3rd CIT Runner-Up
2018–19 UIC 16–16 10–8 5th
2019–20 UIC 18–17 10–8 T-4th
UIC: 76–93 (.450) 42–48 (.467)
Total: 233–208 (.528)

      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. ^ http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12530269/uic-flames-hire-indiana-hoosiers-assistant-steve-mcclain-head-coach
  2. ^ Greenstein, Teddy. "UIC dismisses coach Steve McClain after Flames fall 1 win short of an NCAA Tournament bid. 'I'm proud of what we did here,' McClain says". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. ^ "UIC fires basketball coach Steve McClain after 5 seasons". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  4. ^ "Tom Crean hires Steve McClain to fill out Georgia hoops staff". Dawgs247. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
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