Ron Cottrell
Ron Cottrell (born October 11, 1960)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Houston Christian Huskies
Current conference: Southland Conference
Houston Baptist record^: 518-491 (.513)
Overall record^: 518-491 (.513)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2016)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2017)
- Southland Regular Season Champion: 0
- Red River (NAIA) Regular Season Champion: 9 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- Southland Tournament Champion: 0
- Red River (NAIA) Tournament Champion: 4 (2001, 2003, 2004, 2006)
- NAIA Division I Tournament Appearances: 10 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
1991-present | Houston Christian |
1987-1990 | Arkansas (asst) |
1986-1987 | North Dakota State College of Science (asst) |
1984-1985 | Arkansas (student asst) |
Ron Cottrell Facts
- Ronald Cottrell
- Born October 11, 1960
- Hometown: Houston, Texas
- Alma Mater: University of Arkansas (BA, 1988)
- The Arkansas-native attended high school in Houston at Westbury HS before going on to the University of Arkansas
- Served as a volunteer student assistant on Nolan Richardson‘s staff for one season
- Spent one year as an assistant coach at ND State College of Science before returning to Arkansas in 1987
- Worked as one of ichardson‘s assistants for three seasons, culminating in a trip to the NCAA Final Four in 1990
- Took over as the head coach at Houston Christian – then known as Houston Baptist, a NAIA program – in 1990
- Has been at the helm at HCU/HBU ever since, helping transition the program to NCAA Division I starting in the 2007-08 season
- Went to ten straight NAIA Tournaments from 1998-2007, winning the Red River Athletic Conference (NAIA) title in all nine seasons in which the Huskies were members
- The program first joined the now-defunct Great West Conference in 2009 after two seasons as an independent, but agreed to join Southland in 2011 starting with the 2013-14 season (the GWC would dissolve in 2013)
- Led the Huskies to the 2016 CBI and 2017 CIT, the first two Division I postseason appearances for the program
- Cottrell is one of the longest-tenured head coaches in Division I and is by far the winningest coach in program history
- Served as the school’s Athletic Director for 16 seasons from 1995-2011 and has since been the associate AD for HCU
- Along with his wife, Jacque, has two daughters
Ron Cottrell Coaching Tree
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^ overall and Houston Christian records include seasons played at both the NCAA Division I and NAIA levels; HCU became an NCAA D-I program in 2007