Mark Gottfried

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Mark Gottfried

Title Head Coach
College Alabama
Sport Basketball
Born January 20, 1964 (age 43)
Place of birth Flag of United States Crestline, Ohio
Career Highlights
Overall 230-119[1]
Awards
2002 SEC Coach of the Year
Coaching positions
1987-1995
1995-1998
1998-present		 UCLA (asst.)
Murray State
Alabama

Mark Frederick Gottfried (born January 20, 1964 in Crestline, Ohio)[2] is a men's college basketball coach. Gottfried is the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.[2]

His father, Joe Gottfried, was also a basketball coach and currently serves as Director of Athletics at the University of South Alabama.[2] His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts. Mark played 3 seasons of basketball at Alabama, and the Crimson Tide advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in each of those seasons.

He was hired by Alabama in March 25, 1998 after three seasons coaching at Murray State.[2] Alabama's finest years during his tenure have been the 2001-2002 season, when the Tide won the SEC regular season championship, and the 2003-2004 season, when the squad advanced to the Elite Eight. For his efforts he was named SEC coach of the year by the AP and his fellow coaches.

He has led the Tide to 5 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, as of the 2005-2006 season.

Gottfried and his wife, Elizabeth, are married with five children.

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Gottfried graduated with a Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Communications from the University of Alabama in 1987. He attended Oral Roberts on a basketball scholarship his freshman season, 1982-83, before transferring to Alabama. He attended UCLA graduate school for two years.[2]

Gottfried served as an assistant coach for 8 seasons (1987-95) at UCLA under Jim Harrick. Also members of the staff were 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 & 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 McMurray, Pooh Richardson, Trevor Wilson, Darrick Martin and Mitchell Butler.[2] 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 2nd Round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

Gottfried was Head Coach from 1995-97 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 was first Ohio Valley Conference coach to win three OVC titles in only three seasons; Gottfried coached Racers to three Ohio Valley Conference Championships, all three years he coached there.[2]

  1. ^ Division I Coaching Records. NCAA.org (2006-08-06). Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Mark Gottfried. Rolltide.com (2002-05-02). Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
Current Head Men's Basketball Coaches of the Southeastern Conference

John Brady (LSU) | Billy Donovan (Florida) | Dennis Felton (Georgia) | Billy Gillispie (Kentucky) |
Mark Gottfried (Alabama) | Andy Kennedy (Ole Miss) | Jeff Lebo (Auburn) | Dave Odom (South Carolina) |
Bruce Pearl (Tennessee) | John Pelphrey (Arkansas) | Kevin Stallings (Vanderbilt) | Rick Stansbury (Mississippi State)


Cutchin • Mountjoy • Miller • Hodges • Alexander • Luther • Overton • Greene • Newton • Edgar • Gottfried • Anderson • Cronin • Kennedy

Graves • Harsh • Kelly • Noojin • Goodall • Moore • Bernier • Crisp • Laney • Crisp • Burdette • Dee • Lambert • Riley • Newton • Sanderson • Hobbs • Gottfried

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