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 Tic
Price has lifted the McNeese State basketball
program back into national and conference prominence
in the four years he has been head coach of the
Cowboys.
His 2001-02 team won the league title and played in
the NCAA tournament, the 2002-03 squad posted a
first round upset victory in the Southland
Conference tourney and carried eventual champion Sam
Houston State down to the wire in a semifinal
matchup and the 2004-05 team won six games in a row
down the stretch to make the post season tournament.
To characterize the man, one would have to use words
and phrases like - driven, disciplinarian,
passionate, tireless worker, focused, strong craving
for family and basketball.
His 2001-02 Cowboy team posted a 21-9 overall record
and won the SLC regular season and tournament
championships, a first in school history. His first
two teams won a record 27 straight home games at
Burton Coliseum.
Price just completed his 24th year of coaching and
has also served head stints at the University of New
Orleans and at the University of Memphis, his teams
there posting a combined 93-54 record, winning three
league titles and playing in both the NCAA and NIT
tournaments.
His head coaching record is 153-108 for a .586
winning percentage and he is 60-54 after four years
at McNeese.
In nine seasons as a head coach he has won 10
different coaching honors including Southland
Conference coach of the year, Louisiana collegiate
coach of the year and NABC District 8 coach of the
year.
During the 2000-01 season he was the associate head
coach at McNeese for a team that went 22-9, produced
the best turnaround in the NCAA and a nation leading
17 game conference winning streak, won the SLC title
and played in the NIT.
Price is a native of Danville, VA and played
collegiately at Virginia Commonwealth and Virginia
Tech. He is married to the former Jamie Lynn Simms
of Baton Rouge and the couple has two children, a
son Ryan who is a member of the McNeese basketball
team and a daughter, Chanel.
Tic and Jamie form the only husband-wife basketball
television show anchors in the nation. Price is the
past president of the LABC (La. Association of
Basketball Coaches). |
