Justin Hutson (born October 16, 1971)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Fresno State Bulldogs
Current conference: Mountain West Conference (MWC)
Fresno State record: 80-73 (.523)
Overall record: 80-73 (.523)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- TBC Championships: 1 (2022)
- TBC Appearances: 1 (2022)
- Mountain West Regular Season Champion: 0
- Mountain West Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Joe B. Hall Award: 1 (2019)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2018-present | Fresno State |
| 2017-2018 | San Diego State (assoc. HC) |
| 2013-2017 | San Diego State (asst) |
| 2011-2013 | UNLV (assoc. HC) |
| 2006-2011 | San Diego State (asst) |
| 2005-2006 | Cal Poly (asst) |
| 1998-2000 | Cal State Bakersfield (asst) |
Justin Hutson Facts
- Justin Lee Hutson
- Born October 16, 1971
- Hometown: Bakersfield, California
- Alma Mater: California State University, Bakersfield (BA, 1994 & MA, 2009)
- Played at then-Division II CSU Bakersfield for four seasons under head coach Pat Douglass
- Began coaching career at his alma mater, spending two seasons as an assistant under Henry Clark
- Continued at the high school level, leading the Bakersfield HS Drillers for four seasons
- After one season on Kevin Bromley’s staff at Cal Poly, Hutson was hired by SDSU head coach Steve Fisher in 2006
- Stayed on Fisher‘s staff for five seasons before spending two years as associate head coach at UNLV under Dave Rice
- Returned to SDSU in 2013, spending three more seasons as an assistant under Fisher
- Elevated to associate head coach in 2017 under new Aztecs head coach Brian Dutcher
- Hired in April 2018 to become the next head coach at Fresno State
- Led the Bulldogs to 23 wins in his first season, earning the Joe B. Hall Award as the nation’s top first-year head coach
- In 2022, Hutson and the Bulldogs won the inaugural The Basketball Classic title (a CIT replacement)
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