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)