Keith Richard
Keith Richard (born October 1, 1960)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
Current conference: Sun Belt Conference
Louisiana Tech record: 150-117 (.562)
Louisiana-Monroe record: 163-271 (.376)
Overall record: 313-388 (.447)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2002, 2006)
- CBI Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2015)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2015)
- CIT Appearances: 3 (2016, 2018, 2019)
- Sun Belt Regular Season Champion: 1 (1999)
- Sun Belt Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Sun Belt Coach of the Year: 2 (1999, 2015)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2010-present | Louisiana-Monroe |
| 2008-2010 | LSU (asst) |
| 1998-2007 | Louisiana Tech |
| 1995-1998 | Louisiana Tech (asst) |
| 1989-1994 | Northeast Louisiana (asst) |
| 1986-1989 | Marshall (asst) |
| 1984-1986 | Northeast Louisiana (grad. asst) |
Keith Richard Facts
- Keith Gerard Richard
- Born October 1, 1960
- Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Alma Mater: Northeast Louisiana University (BA, 1982 & MA, 1986)
- Played four years at Northeast Louisiana (now ULM) under head coaches Lenny Fant, Benny Hollis and Mike Vining
- Spent two years as a graduate assistant at NLU while earning his masters, then took an assistant position on Rick Huckabay‘s staff at Marshall in 1986
- Returned to his alma mater in 1989 as an assistant under Vining, then in 1995 joined Jim Wooldridge‘s staff at Louisiana Tech
- Promoted to head coach at Louisiana Tech in 1998, spending nine seasons as the Bulldogs head coach
- Went 150-117 during that tenure, going to the NIT twice
- Spent three seasons as an assistant at LSU under Trent Johnson
- Became the head coach at his alma mater ULM in 2010, serving in that capacity since then
- Has 163 wins during his tenure and has taken the Warhawks to the postseason four times; was the 2015 CBI runner-up
- Along with his wife, Holly, has two sons and one daughter
Keith Richard Coaching Tree
- Steve Forbes (Wake Forest, East Tennessee State)
- Kevin Johnson (Southern)
