Rick Stansbury (born December 23, 1959)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Current conference: Conference USA (C-USA)
Mississippi State record: 293-166 (.638)
Western Kentucky record: 122-73 (.626)
Overall record: 415-239 (.635)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 6 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 7 (1999, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2018, 2021)
- Conference USA Regular Season Champion: 1 (2021)
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 5 (2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010)
- Conference USA Tournament Champion: 0
- SEC Tournament Champion: 2 (2002, 2009)
Awards:
- SEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2016-present | Western Kentucky |
| 2015-2016 | Texas A&M (assoc. HC) |
| 2014-2016 | Texas A&M (asst) |
| 1998-2012 | Mississippi State |
| 1994-1998 | Mississippi State (assoc. HC) |
| 1990-1994 | Mississippi State (asst) |
| 1984-1990 | Austin Peay (asst) |
| 1983-1984 | Cumberland (KY) (grad. asst) |
| 1981-1982 | Campbellsville (student asst) |
Rick Stansbury Facts
- Richard Lee Stansbury
- Born December 23, 1959
- Hometown: Battletown, Kentucky
- Alma Mater: Campbellsville University (1981)
- Spent six years as an assistant at Austin Peay under two head coaches – two under Howard Jackson and four under Lake Kelly
- Was on Richard Williams‘ staff at Mississippi State four eight seasons before taking over as head coach in 1998
- Spent fourteen seasons as the head coach at Mississippi State, winning 293 games, going to the NCAA Tournament six times and the NIT five times during his tenure
- Worked as an assistant, then associate head coach, on Billy Kennedy‘s Texas A&M staff between head coaching jobs
- Hired in March 2016 as the new head coach of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
- In 102-59 through his first five seasons, winning 20+ games four times and going to two NITs
- In 2020-21, Stansbury’s Hilltoppers had the best record in the league (11-3) and won the C-USA East title
- Along with his wife, Meo, has three sons
Rick Stansbury Coaching Tree
- Phil Cunningham (Troy)