Tim Floyd
Floyd gives the USC "V-for-victory" sign during a practice before the 2009 NCAA Tournament
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UTEP |
| Conference | Conference USA |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 25, 1954 Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
| Playing career | |
| ? | Southern Mississippi |
| ? | Louisiana Tech |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–1977 | Louisiana Tech (asst.) |
| 1977–1986 | UTEP (asst.) |
| 1986–1988 | Idaho |
| 1988–1994 | New Orleans |
| 1994–1998 | Iowa State |
| 1998–2001 | Chicago Bulls |
| 2003–2004 | New Orleans Hornets |
| 2005–2009 | USC |
| 2010–present | UTEP |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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Pac-10 Tournament championship (2009) Big Eight Tournament championship (1996) Sun Belt regular season championship (1993) American South Tournament championship (1990) 3× American South regular season championship (1989, 1990, 1991) |
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Timothy Fitzpatrick Floyd (born February 25, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Miners men's basketball team. He is also a former head coach of several teams in both the NCAA and the NBA, most recently the University of Southern California men's college basketball team. Floyd is also known as the coach of the Chicago Bulls.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Floyd is a 1977 graduate of Louisiana Tech University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health and physical education. He originally was a walk-on player at the University of Southern Mississippi, but he transferred to Louisiana Tech and was a scholarship player there. His father, who was also a coach, died when Floyd was 18.
Floyd and wife Beverly have one daughter, Shannon.
In November 2009, a video surfaced on YouTube depicting Floyd breaking up a fight in the food court of a casino in Palm Desert, California. Floyd confirmed the video's accuracy, telling ESPN.com that "I was leaving and then this thing happened in the food court", referring to the fight. "It looks like a bar but it's a food court. All I can say is that it was more physical than anything I'd seen in the Pac-10 and decided somebody needed to break it up.
Floyd's first coaching job was as an assistant at UTEP under Hall of Famer Don Haskins from 1977 to 1986. While Floyd was at UTEP, the Miners went to three straight NCAA Tournaments (from 1984 to 1986). They also went to the NIT three times (in 1980, 1981, and 1983), and UTEP won four Western Athletic Conference championships in those years.
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