Mark Gottfried

Mark Gottfried
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head men's basketball coach
Team	NC State
Biographical details
Born	January 20, 1964(1964-01-20)
Place of birth	Crestline, Ohio, USA
Playing career
1983–1984 1984–1987	Oral Roberts Alabama
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1987–1995 1995–1998 1998–2009 2011–present	UCLA (asst.) Murray State Alabama NC State
Head coaching record
Overall	282–154 (.647)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As Player 1 MCC Regular Season (1984) 1 MCC Tournament (1984) 1 SEC Regular Season (1987) 1 SEC Tournament (1987) As Assistant Coach 2 Pac–10 Regular Season (1992, 1995) 1 NCAA Tournament (1995) As Head Coach 3 OVC Regular Season (1996, 1997, 1998) 2 OVC Tournament (1997, 1998) 2 SEC West Division (2002, 2005) 1 SEC Regular Season (2002)
Awards
OVC Coach of the Year (1998) SEC Coach of the Year (2002)

Mark Frederick Gottfried (born January 20, 1964)^[1] is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He was named head coach of NC State on April 5, 2011.^[2]

Gottfried played one season at Oral Roberts and three seasons at Alabama, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in each of his seasons with the Crimson Tide. He spent eight seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA, including the team's 1995 NCAA championship season, three years as head coach at Murray State, and eleven years as head coach at Alabama.

Gottfried is currently an honorary board of trustees member of the Athletes in Action sports ministry.^[3]

Early years

Gottfried was born in Crestline, Ohio. He played varsity basketball at Carterville High School in Carterville, Illinois and Carbondale High School in Carbondale, Illinois. He then played for UMS Prep (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School) in Mobile, Alabama during his senior year, averaging 21.6 ppg/11.2 rpg before graduating in 1982. As a student, he was selected to the National Honor Society. Gottfried was inducted into UMS-Wright's Hall of Fame and in 2004 was the UMS Alumnus of the .

College career

Gottfried attended Oral Roberts on a basketball scholarship. After playing there for one season, where he was a Freshman All-American, he transferred to Alabama. There, he started 98 consecutive games, and Alabama advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in all three seasons he played. He holds the school records for most 3-point shots made in a single game with eight in a 1987 game against Vanderbilt, and for career 3-point field goal percentage (.485, 81–167).^[1] Gottfried graduated with a Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Communications from the University of Alabama in 1987, after winning both the school's Hayden Riley Top Scholar Award and the Bryant Award as the school's top scholar-athlete during his senior year.^[4] He was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the seventh round of the 1987 NBA Draft,^[5] though he never played professionally. Instead, he spent three years touring with Athletes in Action, then attended UCLA graduate school for two years.^[1]

Coaching career

UCLA

Gottfried served as an assistant coach for eight seasons (1987–95) at UCLA under Jim Harrick. Also members of the staff were current St. John's (and former UCLA) head coach Steve Lavin and current Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar. The Bruins were the 1995 NCAA champions with Gottfried as an assistant coach and recruiter. The Bruins were ranked 1st nationally for their recruiting class in 1994 and produced future NBA players Ed O'Bannon, George Zidek, Tyus Edney, Don MacLean, Tracy Murray, Trevor Wilson, Darrick Martin and Mitchell Butler.^[1] He has faced his former school twice as head coach at Alabama, losing 79–57 in the 2001 John Wooden Classic and losing 62–59 in the second round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

Murray State

Gottfried was head coach from 1995 to 1998 at Murray State University and compiled a 68–24 overall record. Murray State advanced to the NCAA tournament in 1997 and again in 1998 and made the NIT in his first season there in 1996. He coached the Racers to Ohio Valley Conference Championships in each of his seasons as head coach, becoming the first head coach to win three OVC titles in only three seasons.^[1] In his last season, the Racers finished 25th in the final AP Poll—the last time to date an OVC team has appeared in a final major basketball poll.

Alabama

Gottfried was hired by the University of Alabama on March 25, 1998.^[1] He led the Tide to the SEC regular season championship in the 2001–02 season. The following year, his team became the first in Crimson Tide history to be ranked No. 1 in the AP poll.^[6] The team held the ranking for two weeks before losing 51–49 to Utah shortly before conference play.^[7] During the end of the following season, his team upset top-ranked and top-seeded Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The squad then defeated reigning national champion Syracuse to advance to the Elite Eight, achieving another program first. The Tide ultimately lost to eventual national champion UConn. For his efforts he was named SEC coach of the year by the AP and his fellow coaches. The next season, Alabama entered the NCAA tournament as a fifth seed before suffering a first-round loss to UW–Milwaukee.

Since then, his tenure at Alabama was marked by key player injuries and disappointment. Alabama posted back-to-back losing seasons in the SEC in 2006–07 and 2007–08. The 2007–08 season marked the first time in nine years (only the second time under Gottfried) that Alabama did not reach either the NIT or NCAA post-season tournament, although the Tide did receive an invitation to the first annual College Basketball Invitational, which it did not accept.

On January 26, 2009, following the controversial departure of player Ronald Steele and a meeting with Alabama Athletics Director Mal Moore, Gottfried resigned mid-season as basketball coach at the University of Alabama.^[8]

North Carolina State

On April 5, 2011, Gottfried accepted the job as head coach of the NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team. To celebrate the upcoming basketball season, Gottfried planned to perform a tandem skydive into Carter Finley Stadium during halftime of a football game. The jump, scheduled for September 17, 2011, was canceled due to weather concerns.^[9]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Murray State (Ohio Valley Conference) (1995–1997)
1995–1996	Murray State	20–9	12–4	1st	NIT 1st Round
1996–1997	Murray State	20–10	12–6	T–1st	NCAA 1st Round
1997–1998	Murray State	29–4	16–2	1st	NCAA 1st Round
Murray State:		69–23	40–12
Alabama (Southeastern Conference) (1998–2009)
1998–1999	Alabama	17–15	6–10	T–5th (West)	NIT 1st Round
1999–2000	Alabama	13–16	6–10	4th (West)
2000–2001	Alabama	25–11	8–8	3rd (West)	NIT Runner-up
2001–2002	Alabama	27–8	12–4	1st (West)	NCAA 2nd Round
2002–2003	Alabama	17–12	7–9	4th (West)	NCAA 1st Round
2003–2004	Alabama	20–13	8–8	T–2nd (West)	NCAA Elite Eight
2004–2005	Alabama	24–8	12–4	T–1st (West)	NCAA 1st Round
2005–2006	Alabama	18–13	10–6	2nd (West)	NCAA 2nd Round
2006–2007	Alabama	20–12	7–9	T–3rd (West)	NIT 1st Round
2007–2008	Alabama	17–16	5–11	5th (West)
2008–2009	Alabama	12–7 †	2–3 †	3rd (West)
Alabama:		210–131	83–82	† Resigned mid–season
NC State (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2011–present)
2011–2012	NC State	3–0	0–0
NC State:		3–0	0–0
Total:		282–154
National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion

^[10][11]

Family

Mark is the father of four sons and one daughter.^[1] His oldest son, Brandon, was a standout athlete at Gulf Shores High School in both football and basketball and is attending Stanford University to play football. His only daughter, Mary Layson, is a star on the Gulf Shores High School Volleyball team and also plays tennis. She will graduate in 2011. His father, Joe Gottfried, was also a basketball coach and recently retired as Director of Athletics at the University of South Alabama.^[1] His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts. Both served as head coaches of their respective programs at Murray State.

See also

• 1994-95 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Mark Gottfried". University of Alabama Athletics Media Relations - Rolltide.com. 2002-05-02. http://www.rolltide.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8000&ATCLID=239593. Retrieved 2007-03-05. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ [1] NC State hires Mark Gottfried as coach
3. ^ "About Athletes in Action". Athletes in Action. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080315020924/http://www.aia.com/about/. Retrieved 2009-04-05. 
4. ^ "Tide honors its student-athletes". The Tuscaloosa News. 2006-04-25. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20060425/NEWS/604250357. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
5. ^ 1987 NBA Draft on Basketballreference.com
6. ^ Jim O'Connell (2002-12-23). "Alabama is Number One in AP Men's Hoops Poll". Associated Press via RollTide.com. http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/122302aaa.html. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 
7. ^ "Alabama Is Upset By Utah". The New York Times. 2002-12-31. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E1D6153FF932A05751C1A9649C8B63. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 
8. ^ Pat Forde (2009-01-26). "Embattled Coach Gottfried Resigns after 11 Years at Alabama". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3862038. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 
9. ^ "Mark Gottfried's jump called off". espn.com. espn.com. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/6979461/weather-cancels-nc-state-wolfpack-basketball-coach-mark-gottfried-jump-carter-finley-stadium. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
10. ^ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/alab/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2010-11-guide.pdf
11. ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/g/gottfma01.html

Persondata
Name	Gottfried, Mark
Alternative names	Gottfried, Mark Frederick; Gottfried, Mark F.
Short description	American college basketball player, college basketball coach
Date of birth	January 20, 1964
Place of birth	Crestline, Ohio, United States
Date of death
Place of death