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HEAD COACH
BARRY HINSON
Division I Coaching Experience:
17th year
At SIU:
2nd year
Alma Mater:
Oklahoma State, 1983
Hometown:
Marlow, Okla.
Barry Hinson inherited a program at
Southern Illinois that went 8-23 in 2012
and improved that mark to 14-17 in 2013,
his first season at the helm of the Salukis.
Although SIU finished 10th in the league
standings with a 6-12 mark, Hinson placed
third in the voting for Missouri Valley
Conference Coach of the Year, the highest
finish ever for the coach of a last-place
MVC team.
Hinson won over the fan base with his
folksy charm and blunt observations about
his squad. He kept a positive outlook after
the team began conference play with a 1-10
record. On Feb. 5, the Salukis snapped a
six-game losing streak by beating No.
22 Wichita State for their first win over a
ranked opponent since 2008. That victory
was the first of six wins in the team’s final
eight regular-season games.
Southern Illinois University Director
of Athletics Mario Moccia named Hinson
as the school’s new men’s basketball head
coach during a press conference on March
28, 2012. Hinson became
just the 13th head coach
in the 99-year history of
the program.
Hinson, 51, served
four years on Bill Self’s
staff at the University
of Kansas from 2008-
12. During his first two
years at KU, he worked
as the director of external
relations. In May, 2010,
he was promoted to
director of operations.
The Jayhawks were one
of the nation’s premier
programs during that
four-year span with a
combined 107-21 record
and a trip to the National
Championship game in
2012.
Prior to Kansas, Hinson was the head
coach at Missouri State for nine seasons.
While at Missouri State, he
guided the Bears to a 169-117
record (.591) with postseason
NIT teams in 2000, 2005,
2006 and 2007. His 2006
squad was left out of the
NCAA Tournament with a 21
RPI. That club went on to win
NIT games over Stanford and
Houston.
Although
Southern
Illinois
dominated
the
Missouri Valley Conference
by
winning
six-straight
championships from 2002
to 2007, Hinson’s Bears beat
Southern 10 times -- more
than any other conference
school during his nine-year
tenure. The Bears had three
20-win seasons under Hinson
and advanced to the finals of
the MVC Tournament three
times.
Dean of the Missouri Valley Conference
Most Coaching Wins Overall
486 Henry P. Iba
Oklahoma State
1934-57
337 Eddie Hickey
Creighton, Saint Louis 1935-43, 1946-58
327 Dana Altman
Creighton
1994-2010
225 Rich Herrin
Southern Illinois
1985-97
220 Ralph Miller
Wichita State
1951-64
211 Maurice John
Drake
1958-71
197 Joe Stowell
Bradley
1965-78
194 Chuck Orsborn Bradley
1956-65
185 Ken Hayes
Tulsa, New Mexico St. 1968-79
183 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
1999-2008, 2012-
Most Coaching Wins in MVC Games
187 Henry P. Iba
Oklahoma State
1934-1957
182 Dana Altman
Creighton
1994-2010
163 Eddie Hickey
Creighton, Saint Louis 1935-43, 1946-58
126 Dr. F.C. Allen
Kansas
1907-09, 1919-28
111 Rich Herrin
Southern Illinois
1985-97
110 Jim Molinari
Bradley
1992-2002
101 Barry Hinson
Missouri State, SIU
1999-2008, 2012-
Twenty-three of Hinson’s 26 players
who completed their eligibility as seniors
for the Bears received undergraduate
degrees from Missouri State. Thirteen
of Hinson’s players went on to play
professionally overseas.
“I’m genuinely excited to be the head
coach at a university with a great tradition
in college basketball, and even more
excited to be part of a community which
seems so much like the place where I was
raised,” said Hinson, a native of Marlow,
Okla.
Hinson spent eight years as a high
school coach in Oklahoma before landing
a college job on Self’s staff at Oral Roberts
in 1993. Four years later, he took over for
Self at ORU and produced records of 19-
12 and 17-11 in two years as head coach
and tied for two Mid-Continent Conference
regular-season titles.
Hinson and his wife, Angie, have two
daughters. Tiffany was married in 2004
to Niles Thomason and the couple lives
in Colorado. Ashley is a 2006 graduate
of Missouri State University and lives in
Springfield, Mo.