Steve Lavin
Steve Lavin (born September 4, 1964)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: San Diego Toreros
Current conference: West Coast Conference (WCC)
UCLA record: 145-78 (.650)
St. John’s record: 92-72 (.561)
San Diego record: 29-35 (.453)
Overall record: 266-184 (.593)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 8 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2011, 2015)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 5 (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2013, 2014)
- WCC Regular Season Champion: 0
- Pac-12 Regular Season Champion: 1 (1997)
- WCC Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Pac-12 Coach of the Year: 1 (2001)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | San Diego |
| 2010-2015 | St. John’s |
| 1996-2003 | UCLA |
| 1991-1996 | UCLA (asst) |
| 1988-1991 | Purdue (asst) |
Steve Lavin Facts
- Stephen Michael Lavin
- Born September 4, 1964
- Hometown: San Francisco, California
- Alma Mater: Chapman University (BA, 1988)
- Grew up in Marin County, California and won a state championship in 1982 at Sir Francis Drake High School (San Anselmo, CA)
- Started his college career at D-II San Francisco State, playing for head coaches Morris Hodges and Kevin Wilson
- Transferred to D-II Chapman (CA) after two years and again played for Kevin Wilson; graduated in 1988
- First coaching job was an assistant to Hall of Famer Gene Keady at Purdue, a position he held for three years
- Spent five seasons as an assistant to UCLA head coach Jim Harrick; was part of the Bruins’ 1995 National Championship team
- Took over as UCLA head coach in 1996, going 145-78 in seven seasons at the helm
- Went to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first six seasons, but after finishing 10-19 in year seven he was removed from the position
- After UCLA, Lavin started his broadcasting career; he called college basketball games for seven years on ESPN and ABC, in addition to appearing on ESPN College GameNight
- Got back into coaching in 2010 by accepting the position of head coach at St. John’s
- His St. John’s career was interrupted in 2011 as he underwent cancer treatment
- While at SJU, he hired his former mentor Gene Keady to be a special assistant coach
- Parted ways with SJU in 2015 after going 81-53 in 4+ years and leading the Red Storm to two NCAA Tournament appearances
- Resumed his broadcasting career, working college basketball games for Fox Sports and the Pac-12 Network for the next seven years (2015-22)
- Made his return to coaching in April 2022 when he was hired to be the new head coach at San Diego
Steve Lavin Coaching Tree
- Cameron Dollar (Seattle)
- Mike Dunlap (Loyola Marymount)
- Michael Holton (Portland)
- Jim Saia (CSU-Los Angeles, CSU-San Marcos, Fresno Pacific, USC)
- Earl Watson (Phoenix Suns)
- Jim Whitesell (Buffalo)
