Grant McCasland

Grant McCasland (born October 14, 1976)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Texas Tech Red Raiders
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Midwestern State record^: 56-12 (.824)
Arkansas State record: 20-12 (.625)
North Texas record: 135-65 (.675)
Texas Tech record: 23-11 (.676)
Overall record^: 234-100 (.701)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  2  (2021, 2024)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  1  (2023)
• NIT Appearances:  2  (2022, 2023)
• CBI Championships:  1  (2018)
• CBI Appearances:  1  (2018)
• Big 12 Regular Season Champion:  0
• Conference USA Regular Season Champion:  2  (2020, 2022)
• Big 12 Tournament Champion:  0
• Lone Star Conference (Div II) Tournament Champion:  1  (2010)
• NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances:  2  (2010, 2011)

Awards:

• Conference USA Coach of the Year:  1  (2020)
• Lone Star (Div II) Coach of the Year:  1  (2010)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2023-present	Texas Tech
2017-2023	North Texas
2016-2017	Arkansas State
2011-2016	Baylor (asst)
2009-2011	Midwestern State
2004-2009	Midland College
2001-2003	Northeastern JC (asst)
1999-2001	Texas Tech (DBO)

Grant McCasland Facts

• Grant McCasland
• Born October 14, 1976
• Hometown: Irving, Texas
• Alma Mater: Baylor University (BS, 1999) / Texas Tech University (MS, 2001)
• Played for head coach Harry Miller with the Baylor Bears from 1996-99
• Earned a master’s degree from Texas Tech while also serving as DBO for James Dickey‘s team
• Amassed an overall record of 143-32 as the head coach at Midland College from 2004-2009
  • Won the NJCAA national championship in 2007 with Midland
• Spent two seasons as head coach at D-II Midwestern State, reaching two Elite Eights and compiling an overall record of 56-12
• Returned to Texas as a member of Scott Drew‘s staff at Baylor from 2011-2016
• Hired in 2016 to be the Arkansas State head coach, going 20-12 in his lone season with the Red Wolves
• Became the head coach of the North Texas Mean Green in March 2017
  • Won the 2018 CBI title in his first season, then won a C-USA title in 2020, earning McCasland C-USA COY honors
  • McCasland’s squad won the 2021 C-USA Tournament to earn a NCAA bid and two years later won the 2023 NIT
• Left UNT in March 2023 to be the new head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders
  • Went 23-11 in his first season at Tech and earned an at-large NCAA Tournament bid as a 6-seed

Grant McCasland Coaching Tree

• Ross Hodge (North Texas)
• Jeff Linder (Wyoming, Northern Colorado)
• Dave Smart (Pacific)

 

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the Division I and Division II levels only