Marty Simmons
Marty Simmons (born February 21, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Eastern Illinois Panthers
Current conference: Ohio Valley Conference (OVC)
Wartburg College record: 10-14 (.417)
SIU Edwardsville record^: 89-58 (.605)
Evansville record: 184-175 (.513)
Eastern Illinois record: 28-66 (.298)
Overall record^: 311-313 (.498)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 2 (2011, 2012)
- CIT Championships: 1 (2015)
- CIT Appearances: 3 (2009, 2013, 2015)
- GLVC (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 1 (2006)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 2 (2005, 2006)
Awards:
- GLVC (Div II) Coach of the Year: 1 (2005)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | Eastern Illinois |
| 2018-2021 | Clemson (asst. to the HC) |
| 2007-2018 | Evansville |
| 2002-2007 | SIU Edwardsville |
| 1997-2002 | Evansville (asst) |
| 1996-1997 | Wartburg |
| 1990-1996 | Evansville (asst) |
Marty Simmons Facts
- Marty Ray Simmons
- Born February 21, 1965
- Hometown: Lawrenceville, Illinois
- Alma Mater: University of Evansville (BA, 1987 & MBA, 1993)
- Named Illinois Mr. Basketball award in 1983 after leading Lawrenceville HS to two straight 34-0 seasons and IHSA State Championships
- Started his college career playing two seasons for legendary Indiana Hoosiers head coach Bob Knight before transferring to Evansville, where he played for former IU assistant Jim Crews
- Played two seasons of professional basketball, one each in the CBA and WBL, before starting his coaching career
- First coaching job was back at Evansville as an assistant coach under Crews
- Left UE in 1996 to spend the season as the head coach at Division III Wartburg College in Iowa; went 10-14
- Returned to Evansville to work five more seasons as Crews‘ assistant until 2002
- Took over as the head coach at SIU Edwardsville in 2002, coaching the Cougars for five seasons (at the time a D-II program)
- Hired to take over as Evansville head coach in 2007, a position he held for eleven seasons
- Won 184 games and won the CIT Championship in 2015
- Fired in March 2018 after going 33-32 over the previous two seasons
- Joined Brad Brownell‘s staff at Clemson in July 2018, assuming the role of assistant to the head coach
- In March 2021, Simmons was announced as the new head coach at Eastern Illinois University
- Through three seasons, Simmons is 28-66 overall with improving win totals each year
Marty Simmons Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III levels; SIU Edwardsville was a Division II program when Simmons coached there, but has since moved up to Division I
