Rick Stansbury
Rick Stansbury (born December 23, 1959)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Memphis Tigers (Head coach: Penny Hardaway)
Current conference: American Athletic Conference (AAC, The American)
Teams coached: Mississippi State Bulldogs, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, Memphis Tigers
Mississippi State record: 293-166 (.638)
Western Kentucky record: 139-89 (.610)
Memphis record: 3-0 (1.000)
Overall record: 435-255 (.630)
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)
- SEC Tournament Champion: 2 (2002, 2009)
Awards:
- SEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Memphis (asst) |
| 2023 | Memphis (interim HC) |
| 2016-2023 | 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 2020-21, Stansbury’s Hilltoppers had the best record in the league (11-3) and won the C-USA East title
- Went 139-89 in seven seasons at the helm, winning 20+ games four times and going to two NITs
- Resigned in March 2023 following a 17-16 season; became first head coach in program history to not reach the NCAA Tournament
- Stansbury joined the coaching staff at Memphis in April 2023 as an assistant coach under Penny Hardaway
- Served as interim head coach for the first three games of the 2023-24 season, going 3-0
Rick Stansbury Coaching Tree
- Phil Cunningham (Troy)
