Bob Hoffman

Bob Hoffman (born July 18, 1957)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Central Oklahoma Bronchos
Current conference: Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA)
Oklahoma Baptist record: 242-79 (.754)
Texas-Pan American record: 68-77 (.469)
Mercer record: 209-165 (.559)
Central Oklahoma record: 74-42 (.754)
Overall record^: 593-363 (.620)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  1  (2014)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  1  (2013)
• CBI Appearances:  2  (2015, 2018)
• CIT Championships:  1  (2012)
• CIT Appearances:  2  (2012, 2016)
• MIAA (Div II) Regular Season Champion:  1  (2022)
• Atlantic Sun Regular Season Champion:  2  (2013, 2014)
• MIAA (Div II) Tournament Champion:  0
• Atlantic Sun Tournament Champion:  1  (2014)
• NAIA Tournament Appearances:  7  (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2022)
• NAIA Tournament Final Four:  3  (1993, 1994, 1997)

Awards:

• Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year:  2  (2013, 2014)
• MIAA (Div II) Coach of the Year:  1  (2022)
• SAC (NAIA) Coach of the Year:  3  (1993, 1996, 1997)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2019-present	Central Oklahoma
2008-2019	Mercer
2007-2008	Rio Grande Valley Vipers
2006-2007	Arkansas Aeros
2004-2006	Oklahoma (asst)
1999-2004	Texas-Pan American
1990-1999	Oklahoma Baptist
1987-1990	Southern Nazarene (w)

Bob Hoffman Facts

• Bob Hoffman
• Born July 18, 1957
• Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Alma Mater: Oklahoma Baptist University (BA, 1979)
• Started his coaching career at Piedmont HS (OK), leading the boy’s basketball team for four seasons
• First collegiate coaching role was a stint as women’s coach at Southern Nazarene, going 88-16 over three seasons
  • Won the 1989 NAIA Women’s National Championship with the Crimson Storm
• Spent nine years as the head coach at alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist (then NAIA), going 242-79 overall during that tenure
  • Led the Bison to six NAIA Tournaments, three Final Fours and finished as Tournament runner-up twice (1993 & 1997)
• Joined the Division I ranks in 1999 as head coach of the Texas-Pan American Broncs (now known as the UTRGV Vaqueros)
• Spent two seasons as an assistant on Kelvin Sampson‘s staff at Oklahoma
  • Was part of the NCAA investigation surrounding Sampson but was cleared of any wrongdoing
  • Spent next two seasons out of college basketball, coaching in the ABA and NBA D-League instead
• Returned to college in 2008 as the head coach at Mercer
  • Won the CIT title in 2012, following that with two straight Atlantic Sun regular season titles and a Tournament title in 2014
    • Mercer earned a berth in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, seeded at #14 and matched up with #3 Duke in the first round; the Bears pulled off the upset and defeated the Blue Devils 78-71
  • The program joined the SoCon prior to the 2014-15 season, going to one CBI and one CIT in the years following
  • Hoffman was fired in March 2019 after an 11-19 campaign, the fourth losing season of his eleven-year tenure
• In July 2019, Hoffman was announced as the new head coach at D-II Central Oklahoma of the MIAA
  • Went 24-7 in year three, winning a MIAA title and leading the Bronchos to the D-II NCAAT; returned to the NCAAs in 2023 with a 26-6 (18-4) record
• Along with his wife, Kelli, has one son

Bob Hoffman Coaching Tree

• Kevin Morrissey (Oklahoma City, St. Gregory’s)

 

^ overall record includes men’s basketball head coaching positions at both the NAIA and NCAA Division I levels