In his 16 seasons as an assistant at the collegiate level, programs at which he has coached have won one NIT Championship, advanced the NCAA Sweet Sixteen three times, reached one Elite Eight and one Final Four.

He has recruited six McDonald's All-American's including Rodney Rodgers (Wake Forest, 1990), Jerald Brown (Texas A&M, 1995), Brad Buckman (Texas, 2002), LaMarcus Alridge (Texas, 2004), Daniel Gibson (Texas, 2004) and Michael Williams (Texas, 2004), and has coached six players that are in the NBA including T.J. Ford (Milwaukee Bucks), Joshua Howard (Dallas Mavericks), Chris Owens (Memphis Grizzlies), Darius Songaila (Sacramento Kings), Calvin Booth (Seattle Sonics) and Rodney Rogers (New Jersey Nets).

Haith spent the last three seasons at the University of Texas under head coach Rick Barnes, and was promoted to Associate Head Coach in April 2003. In his three seasons in Austin, Haith helped guide Texas to its winningest three-year period in school-history.

During his tenure with the Longhorns they recorded a 73-27 (.730) record while advancing to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2002 and 2004, and the Final Four in 2003. The 2002-03 season marked UT's first appearance in the Final Four since 1947.

Texas is one of only five school's to reach the Sweet Sixteen in each of the last three seasons joining Connecticut, Duke, Kansas and Pittsburgh. Prior to Haith joining the Texas staff the Longhorns had never made consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearances.

Haith was also responsible for recruiting the No. 1 recruiting class in the country this year including commitments from McDonald's All-Americans Alridge, Gibson and Williams.

Haith also has experience coaching in the Atlantic Coast Conference. One month prior to coming to Texas, Haith had joined Dave Odom's staff at the University of South Carolina after spending the previous four seasons under Odom at Wake Forest.

While at Wake Forest, Haith was instrumental in helping lead the Demon Deacons to four consecutive postseason tournament appearances, including an NCAA first round showing in 2000-01. He also helped Wake Forest secure one of the nation's Top 10 recruiting classes during the 1999-2000 campaign.

The Deacons registered a 74-53 (.583) mark during Haith's four seasons in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest advanced to the Postseason NIT second round in both 1997-98 and 1998-99, before its youthful squad in 1999-00 posted a 22-14 mark en route to capturing the Postseason NIT championship.

Prior to joining the staff at Wake Forest, Haith served one year as the associate head coach at Texas A&M (1996-97). He spent one season (1995-96) as an assistant coach at Penn State, helping the Nittany Lions to a 21-7 record. Penn State was ranked as high as No. 9 in the national polls before placing second in the Big Ten Conference regular-season standings and earning the school's first NCAA Tournament bid in 31 years.

Haith worked three years (1992-93 to 1994-95) as an assistant coach at Texas A&M and helped the Aggies secure back-to-back recruiting classes that were ranked in the Top 30 in the country during his final two seasons in College Station. In 1993-94, Texas A&M posted a 19-11 mark, finished second in the Southwest Conference regular-season standings and reached postseason play (NIT first round) for the first time in seven years.

He started his full-time coaching career by serving two years as an assistant at UNC-Wilmington (1990-91 to 1991-92). He also worked as a graduate assistant coach at Wake Forest for one season (1989-90) during Odom's first year in Winston-Salem.

Haith graduated from Elon College in North Carolina in 1988 with a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education. A Dean's List student, he served as a student assistant coach for two years. Following graduation, Haith worked as a part-time member of the Elon coaching staff while teaching in the public schools at nearby Western Middle School. During his three-year association with the Elon coaching staff, the Fighting Christians (now called the Phoenix) enjoyed two 20-win seasons.

Born November 3, 1965, Haith is a native of Queens, N.Y. but grew up and went to high school (Western Alamance) in Burlington, N.C. He and his wife, Pam, have a son, Corey, and a daughter Brianna. Pam serves as program coordinator for the Center for African and African-American Studies at The University of Texas.