Chris Mack
	Position: Head Coach Birthdate: 12/30/1969 Experience: Third Season Alma Mater: Xavier '92

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Chris Mack, 41, was named 2010-11 Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year by his fellow A-10 coaches in just his second year at the helm of his alma mater. Mack was also named the recipient of the 2010-11 Skip Prosser Award, an annual national award given to the coach who not only has success on the court but displays integrity off it. "Chris Mack is a winner on and off the floor," said ESPN's Jay Bilas.

Mack, who earlier this year signed a contract extension that runs through the 2017-18 season, led Xavier to a 24-8 record in the 2010-11 season and a second Atlantic 10 Regular Season Championship in two years at the helm with a 15-1 record. XU made its second straight NCAA Tournament with Mack in charge, earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament Second Round.

Impressive First Two Years Under Mack

Xavier third-year head coach Chris Mack is 50-17 (.746) overall and 29-3 (.906) in Atlantic 10 regular season play in his career so far. Mack's two-year A-10 record of 29-3 (15-1 in the 2010-11 season and 14-2 in the 2009-10 season) equals the best two-year A-10 run in Xavier history. XU was a combined 29-3 in David West's junior and senior years (15-1 in 2003 and 14-2 in 2002). Mack has already led Xavier to the 2011 A-10 Regular Season Championship, the 2011 NCAA Tournament Second Round, the 2010 A-10 Co-Regular Season Championship and the 2010 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.

Great Rookie Season

Mack, the 2009-10 Basketball Times Rookie Coach of the Year, was 26-9 in his first season as Xavier's head coach. He was the winningest first-year head coach in Division I for the 2009-10 season. He was the only rookie head coach to lead his team into the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Mack became the first Xavier head coach to guide XU to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in either his first or second season as head coach. Mack led Xavier to a 20-win season, the first time in school history that a coach has led a team to 20 wins without at least two seniors on the roster. He also accomplished that feat with no returning double-figure scorers from the 2008-09 season. In fact, Mack won 26 games, tying him for the best total ever for a Xavier rookie head coach.

Xavier Coaching History

Mack is the 17th head coach in program history. Prior to being named Xavier's head coach on April 15, 2009, Mack spent five seasons as an assistant on Sean Miller's Xavier staff. Prior to that he was on the staff of the late Skip Prosser both at Xavier and at Wake Forest.

Xavier Player And Graduate

Mack is a 1992 Xavier University graduate with a degree in communication arts. Mack is the fifth Xavier alumnus out of 17 all-time head coaches to take over the Xavier men's basketball program. Mack was a two-time team captain as a player at Xavier under then-head coach Pete Gillen. He won an MCC Regular Season Championship at 12-2 and reached the second round of the 1993 NCAA Tournament. Mack was the 1987-88 Cincinnati Post Metro Player of the Year at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati before going on to start for two seasons at Evansville, winning an MCC Regular Season Championship and a trip to the second round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament as a UE freshman. He transferred to Xavier after his sophomore season.

Under Miller And Prosser

Mack was XU's Director of Basketball Operations from 1999-2001 under Prosser. Mack spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Wake Forest under Prosser from 2001-04. He returned to Xavier from 2004-09 as an assistant coach under Miller. During those 10 years on the Prosser and Miller staffs at Xavier and Wake, Mack coached on nine teams that made postseason play, including eight teams that made the NCAA Tournament field. Those eight NCAA teams at Xavier and Wake made the NCAA Second Round three times (2002, 2003 and 2007), the NCAA Sweet 16 twice (2004 and 2009) and the NCAA Elite Eight once (2008).

Basketball Family Man

Mack and wife, Christi, have two daughters, Hailee (5) and Lainee (6). Christi has a basketball background as a collegiate standout at the University of Dayton, the Director of Basketball Operations for XU's women's basketball team (2001-03) and more recently as the former head girls basketball coach at Cincinnati's Colerain High School.

Mack was born December 30, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in Cincinnati and is an avid Reds and Bengals fan.

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