Brooks Thompson

Brooks Thompson (1970-2016)

Teams coached: UTSA Roadrunners
UTSA record: 133-178 (.428)
Overall record^: 133-178 (.428)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  1  (2011)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  0
• Southland Tournament Champion:  1  (2011)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2006-2016	UTSA
2004-2006	Arizona State (asst)
2002-2004	Yavapai CC
2001-2002	Oklahoma State (asst)
2000-2001	Southeastern Louisiana (asst)
1998-1999	Oklahoma State (asst)

Brooks Thompson Facts

• Brooks James Thompson
• Born July 19, 1970
• Died June 9, 2016
• Hometown: Littleton, Colorado
• Alma Mater: Oklahoma State University (BA, 1994)
• Played two years at Texas A&M, one each under head coaches Shelby Metcalf and Kermit Davis
• Transferred to Oklahoma State in 1991 where he finished his career playing for HOF coach Eddie Sutton
  • Named First-Team All-Big Eight in 1994 and was drafted in the first round (27th) overall by the Orlando Magic
  • Played four seasons in the NBA, spending time in Orlando, Utah, Denver, Phoenix and New York
  • Head coaches he played for include Brian Hill, Dick Motta, Danny Ainge and Jeff Van Gundy
• Started his coaching career in 1998, spending the season as an assistant under Sutton at his alma mater
• Was the head coach at Metro Christian Academy, a K-12 school in Madison, TN, for one season (1999-2000)
• Spent one season on Billy Kennedy‘s staff at Southeastern Louisiana and then one more with Sutton at OK State
• Hired in 2002 to be the head coach at Yavapai CC in Arizona; went 59-17 in two seasons at the helm
  • Won the Arizona CC Athletic Conference and reached the NJCAA Division I National Tournament in both seasons
• Stayed in the Copper State, spending two years as an assistant at Arizona State under Rob Evans
• Hired in 2006 to be the head coach at UTSA, a position he held for the next ten seasons
  • Compiled an overall record of 133-178, highlighted by a Southland Tournament title and NCAA berth in 2011
  • Fired in March 2016 following a 5-27 campaign, his fourth-straight sub-.500 season
• Just a month after his firing, Thompson was diagnosed with double organ failure; he was diagnosed with a blood infection in May 2016 and then in June, passed away at the age of 45
  • Survived by his wife, Michelle, and their three daughters

Brooks Thompson Coaching Tree

• Gus Argenal (Cal State San Bernardino, Cal State East Bay)
• Jay Spoonhour (Eastern Illinois)

 

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only