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
