Joe Golding

Joe Golding (born October 15, 1975)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: UTEP Miners
Current conference: Conference USA (CUSA)
Abilene Christian record^: 158-144 (.523)
UTEP record: 52-48 (.520)
Overall record^: 210-192 (.522)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  2  (2019, 2021)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  0
• CIT/TBC Appearances:  2  (2018, 2022)
• Conference USA Regular Season Champion:  0
• Conference USA Tournament Champion:  0
• Southland Tournament Champion:  2  (2019, 2021)

Awards:

• Southland Coach of the Year:  1  (2019)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2021-present	UTEP
2011-2021	Abilene Christian
2008-2011	Arkansas-Little Rock (asst)
2005-2008	Abilene Christian (asst)
2004-2005	Collin County CC (asst)
2001-2002	Seminole JC (asst)

Joe Golding Facts

• Joe Golding
• Born October 15, 1975
• Hometown: Wichita Falls, Texas
• Alma Mater: Abilene Christian University (BA, 1999)
• Played four seasons at then-Division II Abilene Christian under head coaches Tony Mauldin and Shanon Hays
• Started coaching in 2000, spending one season as an assistant at South Garland HS (TX) and one season at Seminole JC (OK)
• Went 33-24 in two seasons as the head coach at Sachse HS (TX)
• First joined the staff at his alma mater ACU in 2005, spending three seasons as an assistant under Jason Copeland
• Spent three years as an assistant under Steve Shields at Arkansas-Little Rock before returning to ACU as head coach in 2011
  • Helped guide the program into D-I play in 2013; led program to its first-ever D-I postseason with a trip to the 2018 CIT
  • Led ACU to a Southland Tournament crown, earning the program its first trip to the Division I NCAA Tournament
  • Returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2021 by way of another Southland Tournament title
• In April 2021, Golding was announced as the new head coach of the UTEP Miners

Joe Golding Coaching Tree

• Solomon Bozeman (Arkansas-Pine Bluff)
• Brette Tanner (Abilene Christian)
• Jaret von Rosenberg (Texas A&M-Commerce)

 

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the both NCAA Division I and Division II levels; ACU was a Division II program until 2013