David Patrick (born February 21, 1976)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Sacramento State Hornets
Current conference: Big Sky Conference
UC Riverside record: 27-38 (.415)
Sacramento State record: 14-18 (.438)
Overall record: 41-56 (.423)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Big Sky Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big Sky Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Sacramento State |
| 2021-2022 | Oklahoma (assoc. HC) |
| 2020-2021 | Arkansas (assoc. HC) |
| 2018-2020 | UC Riverside |
| 2016-2018 | TCU (asst. HC) |
| 2014-2016 | LSU (asst. HC) |
| 2012-2014 | LSU (asst) |
| 2007-2010 | Saint Mary’s (asst) |
| 2006-2007 | Saint Mary’s (DBO) |
| 2005-2006 | Nicholls State (asst) |
David Patrick Facts
- David Patrick
- Born February 21, 1976
- Hometown: Hamilton, Bermuda & Melbourne, Australia
- Alma Mater: University of Louisiana at Lafayette (BA, 1999)
- Born in Bermuda and raised in Australia, Patrick played for the Australian Junior National Team before coming to the United States in 1994
- Played at Trafton HS in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was chosen as the Louisiana Player of the Year as a senior
- Started his collegiate career playing for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, but finished career/degree at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he played for Marty Fletcher and then Jessie Evans
- Played professionally for several years in Australia, England and Spain before returned to the States in 2005
- Started his coaching career in 2005 as an assistant under J. P. Piper at Nicholls State
- Spent four seasons on Randy Bennett‘s staff at Saint Mary’s, first as DBO and then as an assistant
- Worked for Johnny Jones at LSU for four seasons, helping land Antonio Blakeney, Jordan Mickey, Jarrell Martin and his godson Ben Simmons, the #1 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft
- Joined Jamie Dixon‘s staff as assistant head coach at TCU in 2016, working there for two seasons
- Hired in March 2018 to his first head coaching gig, taking over the UC Riverside program
- Improved from 10-23 in his first season to 17-15 (7-9 Big West) in his second
- Resigned in July 2020 in order to move back South, joining Eric Musselman‘s staff at Arkansas as associate head coach
- After one year, Patrick left Fayetteville to join Porter Moser‘s staff at Oklahoma in the same role
- Hired in April 2022 to be the new head coach of the Sacramento State Hornets in the Big Sky
David Patrick Coaching Tree
- Mike Magpayo (UC Riverside)
