Steve McClain

Steve McClain

Current position
Title	Assistant Coach
Team	Texas
Conference	SEC
Biographical details
Born	(1962-08-15) August 15, 1962 Orient, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	Chadron State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1984	Chadron State (asst.)
1984	Sioux Empire JC (asst.)
1985	Independence CC (asst.)
1986–1991	Hutchinson CC (asst.)
1991–1994	Hutchinson CC
1994–1998	TCU (asst.)
1998–2007	Wyoming
2007–2010	Colorado (asst.)
2010–2015	Indiana (asst.)
2015–2020	UIC
2020–2022	Georgia (asst.)
2022–present	Texas (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall	324–224 (.591)
Tournaments	1–1 (NCAA Division I) 2–3 (NIT) 2–1 (CBI) 3–1 (CIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NJCAA Division I tournament (1994) 2 KJCCC regular season (1993, 1994) 2 MWC regular season (2001, 2002)
Awards
MWC Coach of the Year (2002)

Steven James McClain (born August 15, 1962) is an assistant basketball coach at Texas. He was most recently head coach at the University of Illinois Chicago. Prior to UIC, he had spent five seasons on the staff of Tom Crean at Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team.

Coaching career

Hutchinson Community College

McClain was the head basketball coach at Hutchinson CC from 1991 to 1994. While there, they won a NJCAA national championship during the 1993–94 season. His overall record at Hutchinson was 91–16.

Wyoming

McClain was the head basketball coach at Wyoming from 1998 to 2007. In four out of his 9 seasons, Wyoming had made it to either the NCAA tournament, or the NIT tournament. His overall record at Wyoming was 157–115. However, after a disappointing 2006 campaign where he went 17–15, with no postseason berth, he was fired. In the 2002 NCAA tournament, Wyoming made it to the second round, which was their best finish since 1987. He was named the MWC coach of the year that season.

Steve McClain was known for his very animated and intense coaching style during games.

His teams have won two regular season conference championships. In six out of the 8 seasons he has coached in the MWC, at least one of his players has received First team All MWC honors. From 2000 to 2002, the Cowboys won at least 20 games in all three of their seasons, marking the first time that happened in two decades.

UIC

McClain parted ways with UIC after five seasons on March 13, 2020 after a 18–17 season that fell 1 win short of an NCAA tournament bid.

Assistant coach

As an assistant at Colorado, McClain served as acting head coach during the absence of head coach Jeff Bzdelik for a portion of the 2009–10 season. He helped lead the Buffaloes to a 15–16 record, with seven of those losses coming by six points or less. While at Texas, McClain was a part of the Longhorns Big-12 Tournament Championship as well as an Elite-8 finish in the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

On April 22, 2020, Georgia announced the hiring of McClain as an assistant coach, reuniting him with Tom Crean who was the head coach at Indiana where McClain was the assistant for the 2010–15 seasons.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Hutchinson Blue Dragons (Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference) (1991–1994)
1991–92	Hutchinson CC	27–7	6–6	4th	NJCAA Division I Regional
1992–93	Hutchinson CC	29–5	11–1	T–1st	NJCAA Division I Regional
1993–94	Hutchinson CC	35–4	10–2	T–1st	NJCAA Division I Champion
Hutchinson CC:		91–16 (.850)	27–9 (.750)
Wyoming Cowboys (Western Athletic Conference) (1998–1999)
1998–99	Wyoming	18–10	7–7	T–4th (Mountain)	NIT Second Round
Wyoming Cowboys (Mountain West Conference) (1999–2007)
1999–00	Wyoming	19–12	8–6	T–4th
2000–01	Wyoming	20–10	10–4	T–1st	NIT First Round
2001–02	Wyoming	22–9	11–3	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 32
2002–03	Wyoming	21–11	8–6	T–4th	NIT Second Round
2003–04	Wyoming	11–17	4–10	8th
2004–05	Wyoming	15–13	7–7	T–4th
2005–06	Wyoming	14–18	5–11	7th
2006–07	Wyoming	17–15	7–9	5th
Wyoming:		157–115 (.577)	73–71 (.507)
UIC Flames (Horizon League) (2015–2020)
2015–16	UIC	5–25	3–15	10th
2016–17	UIC	17–19	7–11	6th	CBI Semifinals
2017–18	UIC	20–16	12–6	3rd	CIT Runner-Up
2018–19	UIC	16–16	10–8	5th
2019–20	UIC	18–17	10–8	T-4th
UIC:		76–93 (.450)	42–48 (.467)
Total:		324–224 (.591)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion