Brian Barone

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| name = Brian Barone

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| current_title = Head coach

| current_team = SIU Edwardsville

| current_conference = OVC

| current_record = {{winpct|86|103|record=y}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|12|15}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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| player_years1 = 1996–1998

| player_team1 = Texas A&M

| player_years2 = 1998–2000

| player_team2 = Marquette

| player_positions = Guard

| coach_years1 = 2001–2002

| coach_team1 = Central Florida CC (assistant)

| coach_years2 = 2002–2003

| coach_team2 = Garden City CC (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 2003–2007

| coach_team3 = Illinois State (assistant)

| admin_years1 = 2007–2008

| admin_team1 = Marquette (CBO & VC)

| admin_years2 = 2008–2010

| admin_team2 = Indiana (DBO)

| coach_years4 = 2010–2014

| coach_team4 = Green Bay (assistant)

| coach_years5 =2014–2015

| coach_team5 = Green Bay (associate HC)

| coach_years6 = 2015

| coach_team6 = Butler CC

| coach_years7 =2017–2019

| coach_team7 = SIU Edwardsville (assistant)

| coach_years8 =2019–present

| coach_team8 = SIU Edwardsville

| overall_record = {{winpct|86|103|record=y}}

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| tournament_record = 0–1 (NCAA Division I)

| championships =

OVC tournament (2025)

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Brian Barone is the head coach of the men's basketball team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), an NCAA Division I program competing in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).{{cite web |url=https://www.coachesdatabase.com/brian-barone/ |title=Brian Barone |publisher=Coaches Database |accessdate=October 7, 2019 }}

Coaching history

Barone began his coaching career as a junior college assistant at Central Florida Community College, then at Garden City Community College in Kansas.{{cite web |url=https://www.coachesdatabase.com/brian-barone/ |title=Brian Barone (born December 15, 1977) |publisher=coachesdatabase.com |accessdate=January 28, 2020 }}{{cite web |url=https://advantagenews.com/sports/college-basketball-brian-barone-named-siue-interim-head-coac/ |title=COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Brian Barone named SIUE interim head coach |publisher=AdVantage |date=March 13, 2019|accessdate=January 28, 2020 }}

He began his Division I coaching career at Illinois State under head coach Porter Moser, currently the head men's basketball coach at Oklahoma. After five seasons at ISU, he became the coordinator of basketball operations and video coordinator at Marquette under head coach Tom Crean. He followed Crean to Indiana to serve as IU's director of basketball operations/video coordinator.

Barone returned to coaching on the bench as assistant to former Marquette teammate and current Bradley head coach Brian Wardle at Green Bay. Moving up to associate head coach, Barone was expected to succeed Wardle when he left Green Bay. It was a surprise to the college basketball community when Linc Darner was named to the post.

After not getting the Green Bay job, Barone was named the head coach at Butler Community College, replacing his Marquette teammate Mike Bargen.

Barone was out of coaching for most of the next two years. On June 6, 2017, he was named assistant to former Marquette teammate Jon Harris at SIU Edwardsville. On March 11, 2019, SIUE announced that coach Jon Harris' contract had not been renewed after a four-year record of 31 wins and 88 losses.{{cite web |url=https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/COLLEGE-MEN-8217-S-BASKETBALL-Harris-out-as-13679789.php |title=COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL: Harris out as SIUE coach; Simmons interested in job |publisher=The Telegraph/Hearst Newspapers |date=March 11, 2019 |accessdate=January 28, 2020 }} However, in a highly unusual move, all of Harris' staff of assistant coaches Brian Barone, Charles "Bubba" Wells, and Mike Waldo and Director of Operations Casey Wyllie was retained, and Barone was later initially named as interim head coach.{{cite web |url=https://www.siuecougars.com/sports/m-baskbl/2018-19/releases/20190312o7ljb4 |title=Brian Barone Named SIUE Men’s Basketball Interim Head Coach |publisher=Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |date=March 12, 2019 |accessdate=January 28, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411214624/https://www.siuecougars.com/sports/m-baskbl/2018-19/releases/20190312o7ljb4 |url-status=dead }} The interim tag was removed when Barone was confirmed as head coach by the SIU board of trustees, and his contract was then extended through the 2023–24 season.{{cite web |url=https://hoopdirt.com/siue-extends-barone-through-2023-24-season/ |title=SIUE extends Barone through 2023–24 season |publisher=WHoopDirt.com |date=November 13, 2019 |accessdate=January 28, 2020 }}

Early life and playing career

Barone was born December 15, 1977, in Chicago, Illinois shortly before his family moved to Peoria, Illinois where his father Tony Barone Sr. became an assistant coach of the Bradley Braves men's basketball team. He started playing college basketball for his father, then head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies. He earned honorable mention on the All-Big XII team as a sophomore, as well as being named to the Big XII Academic All-Conference team. When his father left A&M to coach in the NBA, Barone transferred to Marquette. After "redshirting" a season under NCAA transfer rules, he played two seasons for Marquette, becoming team captain and a member of the Conference USA All-Academic Team.{{cite web |url=https://iuhoosiers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/brian-barone/1590 |title= Brian Barone |publisher=Indiana University/CBS Sports |accessdate=January 27, 2020 }}

Barone earned a bachelor's in communications from Marquette in 2000 and followed that with a master's degree in communications from Marquette in 2002.

Personal life

Barone and his wife, Mimi, have a son, Carson, and three daughters, Ava, Gianna and Cecilia.{{cite news |url=https://www.bnd.com/sports/college/article227478844.html |title=Barone named SIUE men’s basketball interim head coach |publisher=Belleville News-Democrat |date=March 12, 2019 |accessdate=January 27, 2020 }}