Byron Rimm II
Byron Rimm II (born January 30, 1974)
Teams coached: Prairie View A&M Panthers, IUPUI Jaguars
Prairie View A&M record: 115-192 (.375)
IUPUI record: 15-35 (.300)
Overall record^: 130-227 (.364)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-2023 | Houston Christian (asst) |
| 2019-2021 | IUPUI |
| 2018-2019 | IUPUI (assoc. HC) |
| 2017-2018 | UC Riverside (asst) |
| 2016-2017 | Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (DBO) |
| 2006-2016 | Prairie View A&M |
| 2005-2006 | Prairie View A&M (asst) |
| 2002-2005 | Jarvis Christian |
| 2001-2002 | Texas College (women’s) |
| 2000-2001 | Cal State San Bernardino (asst) |
| 1999-2000 | Chaffey (asst) |
| 1997-1999 | Pasadena CC (asst) |
Byron Rimm II Facts
- Byron Newton Rimm II
- Born January 30, 1974
- Hometown: Pensacola, Florida
- Alma Mater: California State University, Los Angeles (BA, 1999) / American InterContinental University (M.Ed, 2005)
- Played at Ventura College (CA) then transferred to play for one year at Cal State Los Angeles
- Started his coaching career at Pasadena CC (CA), working as an assistant while he finished his degree
- After two years there and one at Chaffey CC (CA), became an assistant at Cal State San Bernardino
- Spent one season as head women’s coach at Texas College, going 20-12 overall
- Was the head men’s coach at Jarvis Christian, a HBCU in Hawkins, Texas, for three seasons
- Went 47-39 during his tenure at JCC, twice finishing above .500
- Moved up to the D-I ranks in 2005, spending one season as Darrell Hawkins’ assistant at Prairie View A&M in Texas
- Became head coach of the Panthers year later, leading the program for 10 seasons
- Compiled a 115-192 record overall, finishing above .500 in just two of those seasons
- Resigned in January 2016 after starting the season 1-18 (1-6 SWAC)
- Spent 2016-17 as Willis Wilson‘s DBO at Texas A&M-CC, during which the Islanders were CIT Runner-up
- Headed back west to be an assistant under Dennis Cutts at UC Riverside
- Cutts was fired mid-season but Rimm II stayed with the program under interim HC Justin Bell
- Hired in 2018 by Jason Gardner to be associate head coach at IUPUI in the Horizon League
- Elevated to interim head coach in late August 2019 following Gardner’s resignation
- In June 2020, the school announced that Rimm would return to coach the Jaguars again in 2020-21
- Went 15-35 in two seasons at the helm and was not retained during the 2021 offseason
- Spent two seasons on Ron Cottrell‘s staff at Houston Christian (then known as Houston Baptist) as an assistant coach
Byron Rimm II Coaching Tree
- Landon Bussie (Alcorn State)
- Talvin Hester (Louisiana Tech)
- Byron Smith (Prairie View A&M)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the men’s NCAA Division I level only
