Bob Hoffman (basketball)

Bob Hoffman
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Mercer
Conference SoCon
Record 152–99 (.606)
Biographical details
Born (1957-07-18) July 18, 1957[1]
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Playing career
1975–1979 Oklahoma Baptist
Position(s) Guard / Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1987–1990 Southern Nazarene (women)
1990–1999 Oklahoma Baptist
1999–2004 Texas-Pan American
2004–2006 Oklahoma (asst.)
2006–2007 Arkansas Aeros
2007–2008 Rio Grande Valley Vipers
2008–present Mercer
Head coaching record
Overall 462–255 (.642)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
CIT championship (2012)
2× A-Sun regular season championship (2013, 2014)
A-Sun Tournament championship (2014)

Bob Hoffman (born July 18, 1957) is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.[2] He is a graduate of Putnam City High School in Warr Acres, Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee to play basketball. He met his wife there and after graduation he was hired at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, Oklahoma just northwest of Oklahoma City. He was then hired as the head women's basketball coach at Southern Nazarene University, where his team won the NAIA national championship in 1989. From there he returned to his alma mater as men's coach for the following ten years.

From OBU he was the coach at University of Texas-Pan American then back to Oklahoma where he served as an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at the University of Oklahoma until Sampson and Hoffman were found to have committed numerous NCAA violations.[3] Hoffman was not retained by new head coach Jeff Capel and went on to coach in the American Basketball League and the Developmental NBA. He was hired on March 27, 2008 to replace Mark Slonaker. He led Mercer to the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship as well as the University's first NCAA Tournament victory in an upset of No. 6 Duke on March 21, 2014.

Hoffman won his 400th game as a men's college coach when Mercer defeated Lipscomb University on January 26, 2013.[4][5] With the victory, Hoffman is 488-239 as a men's and women's college coach. In addition, he previously served as head coach of the Arkansas Aeros in the American Basketball Association and of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Developmental League. Coach Hoffman holds the distinction of being the first coach in NCAA Division 1 Men's basketball history to post a victory in each of the collegiate post season basketball tournaments.

Hoffman is a Christian.[6] Hoffman and Mercer President William D. Underwood are both graduates of Oklahoma Baptist University.

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Oklahoma Baptist Bison (Sooner Athletic Conference) (1990–1999)
Oklahoma Baptist: 242–79 (.754)
Texas–Pan American Broncs (Independent) (1999–2004)
1999–00 Texas-Pan American 12–16
2000–01 Texas-Pan American 12–17
2001–02 Texas-Pan American 20–10
2002–03 Texas-Pan American 10–20
2003–04 Texas-Pan American 14–14
Texas-Pan American: 68–77 (.469)
Mercer Bears (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2008–2014)
2008–09 Mercer 17–15 11–9 5th
2009–10 Mercer 16–17 10–10 6th
2010–11 Mercer 15–18 11–9 5th
2011–12 Mercer 27–11 13–5 2nd CIT Champions
2012–13 Mercer 24–12 14–4 1st NIT Second Round
2013–14 Mercer 27–9 14–4 T–1st NCAA Round of 32
Mercer Bears (Southern Conference) (2014–present)
2014–15 Mercer 19–16 12–6 3rd CBI Quarterfinals
2015–16 Mercer 19–15 8–10 7th CIT First Round
2016–17 Mercer 0–0 0–0
Mercer: 164–113 (.592) 93–57 (.620)
Total: 474–269 (.638)

      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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NCAA® Career Statistics". ncaa.org.
  2. ↑ AP. "Mercer hires Hoffman to replace Slonaker as coach". ESPN. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Mercer Bears coach Bob Hoffman took the long, winding road to NCAA stage. Alexander, Chip. The News & Observer (Raleigh), 22 March 2014
  4. ↑ "News from Macon and Warner Robins, GA, and beyond - The Telegraph". macon.com.
  5. ↑ "News from Macon and Warner Robins, GA, and beyond - The Telegraph". macon.com.
  6. ↑ "Bob Hoffman, Mercer University".


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