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HEAD COACH

BARRY HINSON

Head Coaching Experience: 16th year • At SIU: 5th year

Alma Mater: Oklahoma State, 1983 • Hometown: Marlow, Okla.
Overall Record: 267-207 • Record at SIU: 62-67

With 13 seasons as the head coach over-year improvement
at two Missouri Valley Conference in the win-loss column. Dean of the MVC
Most Seasons Coaching in MVC
schools (Missouri State and Southern Hinson’s name
23 Henry P. Iba Oklahoma State 1934-1957
Illinois), Barry Hinson is the league’s 20 Eddie Hickey Creighton, Saint Louis 1935-43, 1946-58 is synonymous with
winningest active coach and the the Missouri Valley
16 Dana Altman Creighton
1994-2010
reigning 2016 MVC Coach of the Year.
13 Barry Hinson Missouri State, SIU 1999-2008, 2012- Conference. Only
13 Rich Herrin
Southern Illinois
1985-97
The Salukis were the comeback Oklahoma State’s

Most Coaching Wins Overall
story of the 2015-16 season. Picked to Henry Iba (23), and
1934-57
486 Henry P. Iba Oklahoma State nish ninth in the preseason poll, they Creighton’s Eddie
1935-43, 1946-58 337 Eddie Hickey Creighton, Saint Louis
1994-2010 327 Dana Altman Creighton
posted an 11-2 non-conference record Hickey (20) and Dana
1999-2008, 2012-
231 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
and an 11-7 league mark to nish tied Altman (16) have

Most Coaching Wins in MVC Games
for fourth place with NCAA Tournament coached more seasons
1934-1957 187 Henry P. Iba Oklahoma State quali er Northern Iowa. The 22 wins or won more games as
1994-2010 182 Dana Altman Creighton
1935-43, 1946-58 163 Eddie Hickey Creighton, Saint Louis were the most since the 2007 team won a league head coach.
1907-09, 1919-28 126 Dr. F.C. Allen Kansas
29 games and advanced to the Sweet With a 231-183 overall
1999-2008, 2012-
125 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
16. At 22-10 overall, SIU posted its rst mark and a 125-109
winning season since 2008. Southern record in conference

ranked eighth-best in the nation in year-
games, he is fourth all-
MVC, marking the biggest leap in the time in total wins.

standings in school history.
Only two coaches
have won more The Salukis won eight of their
games at the State last 12 games in 2014 and fans were

Farm Missouri so energized by the resurgence of the
Valley Conference program that the nal home game

Tournament. Hinson featured the rst sell-out of SIU
is 13-11 in 13 trips Arena in six years. The Salukis also

to Arch Madness advanced to the semi nals of the MVC
and trails only Dana Tournament for the rst time in seven

Altman (21), Rich years.
Herrin (17) and Although SIU nished 10th in the

Gregg Marshall (14) league standings in 2013 with a 6-12
in total victories.
mark, Hinson placed third in the voting

In three of for Missouri Valley Conference Coach of
his four seasons at
the Year, the highest nish ever for the

coach of a last-place MVC team.
Southern Illinois,
Hinson has nished Hinson won over the fan base with
his likable, no-nonsense, common-man
among the top vote
getters for MVC Coach demeanor. He kept a positive outlook
of the Year. In 2014, after the team began conference play

he nished runner-
with a 1-10 record. On Feb. 5, the
Salukis snapped a six-game losing up for Coach of the

streak by beating No. 22 Wichita
Year to Wichita State’s
State for their rst win over a ranked Gregg Marshall,

opponent since 2008. That victory was after Hinson’s squad
the rst of six wins in the team’s nal improved from 10th

eight regular-season games. After the
to fourth place in the

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