Stan Morrison
Stan Morrison (born October 15, 1939)
Teams coached: Pacific Tigers, USC Trojans, San Jose State Spartans
Pacific record: 100-88 (.532)
USC record: 103-95 (.520)
San Jose State record: 72-172 (.295)
Overall record: 275-355 (.437)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (1979, 1982, 1985, 1996)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Pac-12 Regular Season Champion: 1 (1985)
- PCAA Regular Season Champion: 1 (1979)
- PCAA/Big West Tournament Champion: 2 (1979, 1996)
Awards:
- PCAA/Big West Coach of the Year: 2 (1979, 1994)
- Pac-12 Coach of the Year: 1 (1985)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 1989-1998 | San Jose State |
| 1979-1986 | USC |
| 1972-1979 | Pacific |
| 1970-1972 | USC (asst) |
| 1966-1970 | San Jose State (asst) |
| 1962-1963 | California (grad. asst) |
Stan Morrison Facts
- Stanley Mack Morrison
- Born October 15, 1939
- Hometown: Lynwood, California
- Alma Mater: University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1961) / Sacramento State College (MA, 1966)
- Morrison graduated from Bellflower HS (CA) before going on to play under head coach Pete Newell at California
- The Bears finished as NCAA Runner-up in his first season (after the winning the title the year before he arrived)
- Played his final season under new head coach Rene Herrerias before a brief professional career with Real Madrid in Spain
- Returned to Cal in 1962, serving as a graduate assistant on Herrerias’ staff for one season
- Spent three years coaching the varsity team at El Camino HS in Sacramento, during which time he earned his master’s degree
- Joined Dan Glines’ staff at San Jose State in 1966, spending four seasons as an assistant coach there
- Spent two years as one of Bob Boyd‘s assistants at USC before getting his first collegiate head coaching job at Pacific in 1972
- Won 100 games in seven years at Pacific, leading the Tigers to the 1979 NCAA Tournament and PCAA (now Big West) title
- Left Pacific for USC in 1979, coaching the Trojans for the next seven seasons
- Went to the NCAA Tournament twice and won a share of the Pac-10 crown in 1985, earning conference COY honors
- Assembled an impressive recruiting class in 1985 – headlined by Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble – but was let go after finishing just 11-17 with the star freshmen
- Spent the next three years as the athletic director at UC Santa Barbara
- Returned to coaching in 1989, serving as the head coach for nine seasons as San Jose State
- Won just 72 games during his tenure, but did lead the Spartans to a surprise NCAA Tournament berth in 1996 after winning the Big West Tournament as the 6-seed
- Resigned after the 1997-98, marking the end of his coaching career
- Worked several jobs in the interim, including a stint as Shaquille O’Neal’s personal coach
- Hired in August 1999 as athletic director at UC Riverside, helping to transition the program from Division II to Division I
- Retired in August 2011 after twelve years with the university
- Along with his wife, Jessie, has two grown children
Stan Morrison Coaching Tree
- Dick Fichtner (Pacific)
- Jeff Jackson (Furman, New Hampshire)
