Steve McClain
Steve McClain (born August 15, 1962)
Current position: Special assistant to the head coach
Current team: Texas Longhorns (Head coach: Rodney Terry)
Current conference: Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Teams coached: Wyoming Cowboys, UIC Flames
Wyoming record: 157-115 (.577)
UIC record: 76-93 (.450)
Overall record^: 233-208 (.528)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2002)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 3 (1999, 2001, 2003)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2017)
- CIT Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2018)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2018)
- Mountain West Regular Season Champion: 2 (2001, 2002)
Awards:
- Mountain West Coach of the Year: 1 (2002)
- NJCAA Coach of the Year: 1 (1994)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Texas (asst) |
| 2022-2023 | Texas (special asst) |
| 2020-2022 | Georgia (asst) |
| 2015-2020 | UIC |
| 2012-2015 | Indiana (assoc. HC) |
| 2010-2012 | Indiana (asst) |
| 2007-2010 | Colorado (asst) |
| 1998-2007 | Wyoming |
| 1994-1998 | TCU (asst) |
| 1991-1994 | Hutchinson CC |
| 1986-1991 | Hutchinson CC (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | Independence CC (asst) |
| 1984-1985 | Sioux Empire JC |
| 1982-1984 | Chadron State (asst) |
Steve McClain Facts
- Steve McClain
- Born August 15, 1962
- Hometown: Orient, Iowa
- Alma Mater: Chadron State College (BA, 1982)
- First coaching job was at his alma mater, Chadron State College in Nebraska, as an assistant for two seasons
- Spent one year as head coach at Sioux Empire JC (IA) before working as an assistant at Independence CC (KS) and Hutchinson CC (KS)
- Took over as head coach at Hutchinson in 1991, going 91-16 (.850) in three seasons and winning the National Junior College Championship in 1994 – he was honored as National Junior College Coach of the Year that same season
- Joined the D-I ranks as an assistant to Billy Tubbs at TCU for four seasons before getting the head coaching job at Wyoming in 1998
- Won 157 games in nine seasons at Wyoming, going to three NITs and one NCAA Tournament (2002); his Cowboys teams won two Mountain West regular season titles
- Spent time as an assistant to Jeff Bzdelik at Colorado and an assistant turned associate head coach to Tom Crean at Indiana
- Hired in April 2015 as the new head coach of the UIC Flames
- After winning just 5 games in his first season, reached the CBI semifinals in year two and were CIT runner-up in year three
- Fired in March 2020 after five seasons, during which time he went 76-93 overall
- Reunited with Crean in April 2020, spending the next two seasons on his staff at Georgia as an assistant coach
- Joined the coaching staff at Texas in 2022 as special assistant to head coach Chris Beard and later as an assistant under Rodney Terry
Steve McClain Coaching Tree
- Tony Barbee (Central Michigan, Auburn, UTEP)
- Dee Brown (Roosevelt)
- Joe Dooley (East Carolina, Florida Gulf Coast)
- Steve Roccaforte (Lamar)
- Heath Schroyer (McNeese State, UT Martin, Wyoming)
- Shaun Vandiver (Emporia State)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only