Rick Stansbury

Rick Stansbury
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Retired
Team	Retired
Record	293-164 (.641)
Biographical details
Born	(1959-12-23) December 23, 1959 (age 52) Battletown, Kentucky
Playing career
1977–1981	Campbellsville
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1981–1982 1983–1984 1984–1990 1990–1998 1998–2012	Campbellsville (asst.) Cumberland (KY) (asst.) Austin Peay (asst.) Mississippi State (asst.) Mississippi State
Head coaching record
Overall	293-164 (.641)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships SEC Regular Season Championship (2004,2009) SEC Tournament Championship (2002) SEC Western Division Championship (2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010)
Awards 2004 SEC Coach of the Year

Rick Stansbury (born December 23, 1959 in Battletown, Kentucky) was the head men's basketball coach at Mississippi State University (MSU) in Starkville, Mississippi, until March 15, 2012.

On March 13, 1998, Stansbury became the Bulldogs' 18th head basketball coach, replacing his mentor, Richard Williams, who was then Mississippi State's all-time winningest basketball coach. [1][2] During the 2007-2008 season, Stansbury passed Williams as the all-time winningest basketball coach at Mississippi State.

Stansbury played high school basketball for Meade County High School in Brandenburg, Kentucky, graduating in 1977. From 1977-81, he played college ball at Campbellsville College (now Campbellsville University) in Campbellsville, Kentucky, leading the team to the NAIA Tournament in his senior season.

Stansbury began his coaching career at his alma mater as a student assistant (1982–83). Following his stint at Campbellsville, he served as a graduate assistant at Cumberland College (now University of the Cumberlands) in Williamsburg, Kentucky (1983–84), helping lead the team to a 31-5 mark and a second-round appearance in the NAIA Tournament.

In 1984, Stansbury moved to Austin Peay State University, where he served a six-year term as an assistant, helping guide them to three consecutive winning seasons, beginning with a conference tournament championship and a subsequent NCAA Tournament second-round berth during the 1986-87 season, while the APSU Governors posted a mark of 20-12. [3]

After APSU, Stansbury served as an assistant coach at MSU under Williams from 1990–94, becoming Williams' associate head coach and top recruiter in 1994 until 1998. During those eight seasons, the Bulldogs: won the overall Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season championship (1991); twice won the SEC West crown (1995 and 1996); won the SEC tournament championship (1996); advanced to the "Sweet 16" in back to back years (1995 and 1996) and reached the "Final Four" in 1996.[4]

Taking over the helm as the Bulldogs head coach in 1998, Stansbury led his team to post-season tournament play nine times in eleven seasons (six NCAA and three NIT tournaments), with five consecutive post-season tournament appearances, the first MSU basketball coach in history to accomplish this feat. His 2001-02 MSU team compiled the most wins in a single season in school history (27), winning the SEC tournament championship. His teams won the SEC West crown in the 2002-03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, and 2009-2010 seasons, with the 2003-04 squad winning the overall SEC regular season championship outright. Stansbury also owns MSU's record for consecutive 20-win seasons with four from 2001–05 and again from 2006-2010.[5]

From his days as an MSU assistant until the current season, Stansbury has been a part of over 400 MSU victories and more than 15 postseason tournament appearances. He is also 21-7 vs conference in-state rival, the Mississippi Rebels.

Head coaching record

References

2006-07 Mississippi State Men's Basketball Media Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2007, from http://www.mstateathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=16&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=8098&change_well_id=2

Rick Stansbury - Head Men's Basketball Coach. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2007, from http://www.mstateathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=16&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=8060&change_well_id=2

2006-07 Mississippi State Men's Basketball Schedule. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2007, from http://www.mstateathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=16&change_well_id=9995

External links

• Mississippi State profile
• Mississippi State University Athletics