Mick Cronin
Mick Cronin (born July 17, 1971)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: UCLA Bruins
Current conference: Big Ten Conference
Murray State record: 69-24 (.742)
Cincinnati record: 296-147 (.668)
UCLA record: 115-53 (.685)
Overall record: 480-224 (.682)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 14 (2004, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 4 (2012, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2021)
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2010)
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 0
- Pac-12 Regular Season Champion: 1 (2023)
- AAC Regular Season Champion: 2 (2014, 2018)
- Ohio Valley Regular Season Champion: 1 (2006)
- Big Ten Tournament Champion: 0
- AAC Tournament Champion: 2 (2018, 2019)
- Ohio Valley Tournament Champion: 2 (2004, 2006)
Awards:
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: 1 (2018)
- Pac-12 Coach of the Year: 2 (2020, 2023)
- AAC Coach of the Year: 1 (2014)
- Ohio Valley Coach of the Year: 1 (2006)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2019-present | UCLA |
| 2006-2019 | Cincinnati |
| 2003-2006 | Murray State |
| 2001-2003 | Louisville (asst) |
| 1997-2001 | Cincinnati (asst) |
| 1996-1997 | Cincinnati (video coord.) |
Mick Cronin Facts
- Michael Walter Cronin
- Born July 17, 1971
- Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Alma Mater: University of Cincinnati (BS, 1996)
- Played for his father at La Salle High School in Cincinnati and earned all-city honors
- Attended UC but did not play for the Bearcats; instead, served as a varsity assistant and JV coach at Woodward HS in Cincinnati from 1991-96 during his undergrad
- First job after graduation was as the video coordinator at Cincinnati under head coach Bob Huggins; elevated to full assistant the following season and stayed on staff for four years
- Left Cincinnati for an assistant job at Louisville under new head coach Rick Pitino in 2001, a position he held for two seasons
- Got his first collegiate head coaching job in 2003 when he was hired to take over at Murray State
- Went 69-24 in three seasons with the Racers, going to two NCAA Tournaments after twice winning the OVC Tournament
- Returned to alma mater Cincinnati in 2006 as the new head coach of the Bearcats
- Claimed two AAC regular season titles (2014, 2018) and back-to-back AAC Tournament crowns (2018 & 2019)
- Has the second most wins in program history (behind Huggins) and led the Bearcats to nine-straight NCAA Tournaments
- Left Cincinnati in April 2019 when he accepted the job as head coach at UCLA
- Finished 2nd in the Pac-12 in his first season and earned conference COY honors; earned one of the last four at-large NCAA Tournament bids and advanced to the Final Four (the first of his career) as an 11-seed
- Led the Bruins to an outright Pac-12 title in 2023, the program’s first since 2013 and 32nd overall
Mick Cronin Coaching Tree
- Michael Lewis (Ball State)
- Tony Stubblefield (DePaul, New Mexico State)
