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  • Won 2013 C-USA’s Gene Bartow Coach of the Year
  • Led the Tigers to a 75-29 record, with the 75 victories the most wins by a Memphis head coach in his first three years
  • Directed the Tigers to a sweep of the 2011-12 Conference USA regular season and tournament crowns, the fifth time the Tigers did so in the last seven seasons
  • The 2011-12 conference championship title sweep made Memphis the only program from a top-10 rated conference in the nation to win the regular-season crown outright and also claim the tournament championship
  • Led the Tigers to back-to-back appearances in the “Big Dance,” earning the program’s 23rd and 24th bids to the NCAA Tournament (2011, 2012)
  • Guided Memphis to the 2011 Conference USA Tournament title, the program’s first league tournament championship won outside the Bluff City since 1987
  • One of four head coaches in Memphis history to post 20-win campaigns in each of his first three seasons (joins Wayne Yates, Larry Finch and John Calipari in that group)
  • One of three head coaches in school history to lead the Tigers to postseason appearances in each of his first three years (2012, 2011 NCAA; 2010 NIT); Wayne Yates and John Calipari were the other two head coaches to do so
  • Led Memphis to double-digit wins in league play in all three seasons (13 in 2009-10 and 2011-12; 10 in 2010-11)
  • Won more conference titles (regular season and tournament combined) in his first three seasons than any previous coach in Tigers history
  • Signed three-straight, nationally-ranked recruiting classes, including the nation’s No. 1 class in 2010
  • Rallied Tiger Nation to attend the three-consecutive, “close-the-doors” Memphis Madnesses in school history in the fall of 2009, 2010 and 2011, as record overflow crowds packed FedEx Forum to watch the Tigers tip off preseason drills