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Division I Coaching Experience: 17th year At SIU: 2nd year

Alma Mater: Oklahoma State, 1983 Hometown: Marlow, Okla.

Barry Hinson inherited a program at 28, 2012. Hinson became
Southern Illinois that went 8-23 in 2012 just the 13th head coach Dean of the Missouri Valley Conference

and improved that mark to 14-17 in 2013, in the 99-year history of Most Coaching Wins Overall
his first season at the helm of the Salukis. the program.
486 Henry P. Iba Oklahoma State 1934-57
337 Eddie Hickey Creighton, Saint Louis 1935-43, 1946-58
Although SIU finished 10th in the league Hinson, 51, served
standings with a 6-12 mark, Hinson placed four years on Bill Self’s 327 Dana Altman Creighton
1994-2010
third in the voting for Missouri Valley staff at the University 225 Rich Herrin Southern Illinois 1985-97
220 Ralph Miller Wichita State
1951-64
Conference Coach of the Year, the highest of Kansas from 2008- 211 Maurice John Drake
1958-71
finish ever for the coach of a last-place 12. During his first two 197 Joe Stowell Bradley
1965-78

MVC team.
years at KU, he worked 194 Chuck Orsborn Bradley
1956-65
Hinson won over the fan base with his as the director of external 185 Ken Hayes
Tulsa, New Mexico St. 1968-79
folksy charm and blunt observations about relations. In May, 2010, 183 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
1999-2008, 2012-

his squad. He kept a positive outlook after he was promoted to Most Coaching Wins in MVC Games
the team began conference play with a 1-10 director of operations.
1934-1957 187 Henry P. Iba Oklahoma State
record. On Feb. 5, the Salukis snapped a The Jayhawks were one 1994-2010 182 Dana Altman Creighton
six-game losing streak by beating No. of the nation’s premier 1935-43, 1946-58 163 Eddie Hickey Creighton, Saint Louis
22 Wichita State for their first win over a programs during that 1907-09, 1919-28 126 Dr. F.C. Allen Kansas
1985-97 111 Rich Herrin Southern Illinois
ranked opponent since 2008. That victory four-year span with a
was the first of six wins in the team’s final combined 107-21 record 1992-2002 110 Jim Molinari Bradley
1999-2008, 2012-
101 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
eight regular-season games.
and a trip to the National
Southern Illinois University Director Championship game in
of Athletics Mario Moccia named Hinson 2012.
Twenty-three of Hinson’s 26 players

as the school’s new men’s basketball head Prior to Kansas, Hinson was the head who completed their eligibility as seniors
coach during a press conference on March
coach at Missouri State for nine seasons. for the Bears received undergraduate

While at Missouri State, he degrees from Missouri State. Thirteen
guided the Bears to a 169-117 of Hinson’s players went on to play
professionally overseas.
record (.591) with postseason
NIT teams in 2000, 2005, “I’m genuinely excited to be the head
2006 and 2007. His 2006 coach at a university with a great tradition

squad was left out of the in college basketball, and even more
NCAA Tournament with a 21 excited to be part of a community which

RPI. That club went on to win seems so much like the place where I was
NIT games over Stanford and
raised,” said Hinson, a native of Marlow,
Houston.
Okla.

Although Southern
Hinson spent eight years as a high
Illinois dominated the school coach in Oklahoma before landing

Missouri Valley Conference a college job on Self’s staff at Oral Roberts
by winning six-straight in 1993. Four years later, he took over for
championships from 2002 Self at ORU and produced records of 19-

to 2007, Hinson’s Bears beat 12 and 17-11 in two years as head coach
Southern 10 times -- more and tied for two Mid-Continent Conference

than any other conference regular-season titles.
school during his nine-year Hinson and his wife, Angie, have two
tenure. The Bears had three daughters. Tiffany was married in 2004

20-win seasons under Hinson to Niles Thomason and the couple lives
and advanced to the finals of in Colorado. Ashley is a 2006 graduate

the MVC Tournament three of Missouri State University and lives in
times.
Springfield, Mo.

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