Bill Evans
Bill Evans (born December 31, 1948)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Utah State Eastern Golden Eagles
Current conference: Scenic West Athletic Conference (SWAC, NJCAA)
Southern Utah record: 208-223 (.483)
Idaho State record: 70-141 (.332
Overall record^: 278-364 (.433)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2001)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Summit League Regular Season Champion: 1 (2001)
- American West Regular Season Champion: 1 (1995)
- Summit League Tournament Champion: 1 (2001)
- American West Tournament Champion: 2 (1995, 1996)
Awards:
- Big Sky Coach of the Year: 1 (2016)
- Summit League Coach of the Year: 1 (2001)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2020-present | Utah State Eastern |
| 2012-2019 | Idaho State |
| 2007-2012 | Montana (asst) |
| 1991-2007 | Southern Utah |
| 1986-1990 | Alaska-Anchorage (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | Southern Utah (asst) |
| 1984-1985 | Idaho State (grad. asst) |
| 1983-1984 | Southern Utah State (vol. asst) |
Bill Evans Facts
- William LaVar Evans
- Born December 31, 1948
- Hometown: San Mateo, California
- Alma Mater: Southern Utah University (BA, 1972) / Idaho State University (MA, 1985)
- Started coaching career in 1977, spending six seasons as head coach at Port Sulphur HS in New Orleans (112-47 overall)
- Joined the college ranks in 1983, spending one seasons as a volunteer assistant at Southern Utah State College before becoming a grad assistant (under Wayne Ballard) at Idaho State a year later
- Returned to his alma mater SUU in 1985 as an assistant under Bob Schermerhorn, then spent four seasons at Alaska-Anchorage
- Became the head coach at Southern Utah in 1991, helping guide the program into Division I
- Went 208-223 in sixteen seasons as the SUU head coach, the last ten were as a member of the Mid-Continent Conference (now the Summit League)
- Won the short-lived American West Tournament both years it existed, as well as one league title
- Led the Thunderbirds to the NCAA Tournament in 2001, the first such trip for the program at the D-I level, after sweeping the Summit League regular season and Tournament titles
- Went 208-223 in sixteen seasons as the SUU head coach, the last ten were as a member of the Mid-Continent Conference (now the Summit League)
- Joined Wayne Tinkle‘s staff at Montana in 2007, working as a Griz assistant for five seasons
- Returned to Idaho State in 2012, become the new Bengals head coach
- Fired in March 2019 after seven seasons, going 70-141 during his tenure at the helm
- Hired in April 2020 to be head coach at Utah State Eastern, a member of the NJCAA Scenic West Athletic Conference
- Along with his wife, Sunny, has five children
Bill Evans Coaching Tree
- Stan Johnson (Loyola Marymount)
- Jesse Mermuys (Raptors 905)
- Andy Newman (CSU Northridge, CSU San Bernardino, Texas Permian Basin, CSU Fullerton)
- Barret Peery (Portland State, Indian Hills, Southern Idaho)
- Louis Wilson (UT Tyler)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only
