Tim Floyd

Tim Floyd (born February 25, 1954) is a former American college basketball coach, most recently the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

He was formerly the head coach of several teams in the NCAA and the NBA.

Floyd is also known as the coach of the Chicago Bulls for four seasons.

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 in Hattiesburg, but he transferred to Louisiana Tech in Ruston 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.

Floyd's first coaching job was as an assistant at UTEP under Hall of Famer Don Haskins from 1977 to 1986.

They also went to the NIT three times (1980, 1981, 1983) and won four Western Athletic Conference championships in those years.

The next season, they were the regular season runner-up, their best result since 1982.

Floyd coached the Vandals for two years; in his first season, the Vandals posted their first winning record since alumnus Don Monson left for Oregon after the 20–9 1983 season.

While Floyd was at UTEP, the Miners went to three straight NCAA Tournaments (from 1984 to 1986).

Floyd's first assignment as a head coach came at the University of Idaho in Moscow; hired in March 1986, he succeeded Bill Trumbo, who finished last in the Big Sky conference in each of his three seasons.

The Cyclones returned to the Big Eight Conference tournament championship for the first time since 1986.

(After Floyd's 1988 departure, assistant Kermit Davis was promoted to head coach and Idaho won the conference title in 1989 and 1990.)

At the University of New Orleans, Floyd tallied a .680 mark in six seasons as head coach.

During his tenure, the Privateers advanced to postseason play five times, including two NCAA Tournament appearances in 1991 and 1993 and the NIT three times.

At UNO, Floyd averaged 21 wins a season; he is one of only four Division I coaches who have won four conference championships in the first five years at their school.

In his final season at New Orleans in 1994, the team finished 20–10.

Floyd reached the 20-win plateau for the sixth time in eight seasons, and UNO made its seventh postseason appearance in eight years.

Floyd was hired at Iowa State University in May 1994 as the 15th basketball coach in ISU history.

In his four years at ISU, Floyd posted an .620 record.

He is one of two coaches in Iowa State history to post three consecutive 20-win seasons along with his former player and former ISU basketball coach Fred Hoiberg.

He also led the team to three straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament and three straight first-round victories.

In his first season with the Cyclones, Floyd guided the team to a then-school-record 23 victories and the second round of the NCAA tournament.

During that season, the Cyclones were ranked in the AP Top 25 poll for 11 consecutive weeks, peaking at number eleven.

Four of the eleven ISU losses were to 1995 NCAA Final Four teams.

In addition, during the 1995 season, Fred Hoiberg became the first Cyclone to earn All-American honors since Jeff Grayer in 1988.

Picked in preseason polls to finish last in the Big Eight, the 1995–96 Cyclones finished second in the league with a 9–5 mark and won the Big Eight Conference tournament with a win over the Kansas Jayhawks, then ranked the number five team in the nation.

The Cyclones received the highest NCAA Tournament seed in school history up to that time.

In the 1996–1997 season, with high expectations and a national ranking as high as number four, Floyd and the Cyclones posted a 22–9 mark and advanced to their first NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance in 11 years.

In the NCAA Tournament, the sixth-seeded Cyclones defeated the Illinois State Redbirds in the first round and the Cincinnati Bearcats before losing to the UCLA Bruins in overtime in a game they led by double digits most of the game.

Floyd was also responsible for landing would-be recruits, including Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich, who would later withdraw their verbal commitments upon Floyd's departure from Iowa State.

While at Iowa State, Floyd coached future pros Dedric Willoughby, Fred Hoiberg, Kelvin Cato, Marcus Fizer and Paul Shirley.

As the number five seed, the Cyclones defeated the California Bears but lost to the Utah Utes, then coached by Rick Majerus (who, in 2004, accepted and immediately resigned from the USC head coaching job that later went to Floyd).

Iowa State's 24 victories that season was a school record.

For his coaching efforts, Floyd was named Big Eight Coach of the Year and runner-up to Gene Keady of Purdue University for AP National Coach of the Year.

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.

He announced his retirement from coaching after the UTEP game on November 27, 2017.