Steve Cleveland

Teams coached: BYU Cougars, Fresno State Bulldogs
BYU record: 138-108 (.561)
Fresno State record: 92-98 (.484)
Overall record^: 230-206 (.528)

Steven Cornell Cleveland
Born February 4, 1952
Hometown: Fresno, California
Alma Mater: University of California, Irvine (BA, 1976) / Fresno Pacific University (M.Ed, 1979)
Graduated from Herbert Hoover HS in Fresno and started his collegiate career at Fresno CC
- Went on a 2-year LDS mission to England and then transferred to UC Irvine to play for head coach Tim Tift
Started his coaching career in 1980 as the varsity basketball coach at Clovis West HS back in Fresno
Hired in 1990 to be the head coach at Fresno CC, coaching there for seven years
- Went 157-77 during that tenure, winning the Central Valley Conference title in 1997
Became the head coach at BYU in 1997, leading the Cougars for eight seasons
- Won 138 games, two Mountain West regular season titles and the 2001 Mountain West Tournament
- Appeared in the postseason five times (three NCAA Tournaments and two NITs)
Left BYU in 2005 to take over at Fresno State; had nearly taken the job in 2002 before ultimately deciding to stay at BYU
- Inherited a program on probation with the lowest APR in Division I basketball
- Went 92-98 during his six-year tenure, with his best year being his second: 22-10 with an NIT berth
- Coached future NBA All-Star Paul George for two years; George was taken 10th overall in the 2010 NBA Draft
- Stepped down from coaching March 2011 to take an administrative role in the school’s athletic department
After working for several years on BYUtv Sports, became a LDS mission president in Indianapolis, IN

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only