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Tim Floyd (born February 25, 1954) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California men's college basketball team. Floyd is also a former head coach of several teams in both the NCAA and the NBA. Floyd is best known as the coach of the Bulls after Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Scottie Pippen left the team.

Personal life

Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States, Floyd is a 1977 graduate of Louisiana Tech University. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in health and physical education from Louisiana Tech. He originally was a walk on player at the University of Southern Mississippi, but he transferred to Louisiana Tech and was a scholarship player there.

Floyd and wife Beverly have one daughter, Shannon.

University of Texas at El Paso coaching career

Floyd's first coaching job was as an assistant at UTEP under Hall of Famer Don Haskins from 1977 to 1986. While Floyd was at UTEP, the Miners went to three straight NCAA Tournaments (from 1984 to 1986). They also went to the NIT three times (in 1980, 1981, and 1983), and UTEP won four Western Athletic Conference championships in those years.

University of Idaho coaching career

Floyd's first assignment as a head coach came at the University of Idaho. Between 1986 and April 27, 1988, Floyd coached the Vandals. In his first season, the Vandals posted their first winning record in four seasons. This came after three straight last-place finishes in the Big Sky Conference. In his second year, the team was the winningest Idaho team in five seasons. The Vandals posted their best league finish in six seasons.

University of New Orleans coaching career

At the University of New Orleans, Floyd tallied a 127-58 mark in six seasons as head coach. During his tenure, UNO 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. Floyd 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.

Iowa State University coaching career

Floyd was hired at Iowa State University in May of 1994 as the fifth basketball coach in ISU history. In his four years at ISU, Floyd posted an 81-49 record. He is the only coach in Iowa State history to post three consecutive 20-win seasons. 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. The Cyclones returned to the Big Eight Conference Tournament championship for the first time since 1986. In that year, 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 Big Eight Conference Tournament with a win over Kansas University, then ranked the number five team in the nation. The Cyclones received the highest NCAA Tournament seed in school history. As the number five seed, the Cyclones defeated California but lost to Utah, then coached by Rick Majerus (who, in 2004, accepted and immediately resigned from the USC head coaching job that 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 the 1996-1997 season, 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 Illinois State University in the first round and the University of Cincinnati before losing to UCLA in overtime.

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

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