Joe Golding (basketball)
{{short description|American basketball coach (born 1975)}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Joe Golding
| image =
| alt =
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| current_title = Head coach
| current_team = UTEP
| current_conference = CUSA
| current_record = {{winpct|70|63|record=y}}
| contract =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|10|15}}
| birth_place = Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1994–1998
| player_team1 = Abilene Christian
| player_positions = Guard
| coach_years1 = 2000–2001
| coach_team1 = South Garland HS (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 2001–2002
| coach_team2 = Seminole JC (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 2002–2004
| coach_team3 = Sachse HS
| coach_years4 = 2004–2005
| coach_team4 = Collin County CC (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 2005–2008
| coach_team5 = Abilene Christian (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 2008–2011
| coach_team6 = Arkansas–Little Rock (assistant)
| coach_years7 = 2011–2021
| coach_team7 = Abilene Christian
| coach_years8 = 2021–present
| coach_team8 = UTEP
| overall_record = {{winpct|228|207|record=y}} (college)
{{winpct|33|24|record=y}} (high school)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record = 1–2 (NCAA Division I)
0–1 (CIT)
1–1 (TBC)
| championships = 2× Southland tournament (2019, 2021)
| awards = Southland Coach of the Year (2019)
| coaching_records =
}}
Joseph Charles Golding (born October 15, 1975) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at El Paso, having previously served in the same capacity at Abilene Christian University, where he played point guard from 1994 to 1998.
Early years
Golding grew up in Midland, Texas, before relocating with his family as a teenager to Wichita Falls, Texas, where he graduated from Wichita Falls High School.{{cite news |url=https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2019/03/20/abilene-christian-university-basketball-coach-joe-golding/3225610002/ |title=ACU coach Joe Golding is living his dream and continuing family's winning tradition |date=February 8, 2019|work=Wichita Falls Times-Record}} He then played varsity basketball at Abilene Christian, earning four letters from 1994 to 1998, and graduated from ACU in 1999.{{cite news |url=https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/sports/its-official-joe-golding-leaving-acu-to-take-job-at-utep/ |title=It’s official: Joe Golding leaving ACU to take job at UTEP |date=April 13, 2021 |work=Big Country Homepage}}
Coaching career
The beginning of Golding's career was spent at the high school and junior college levels, with assistant coaching positions at South Garland High School, Seminole State College and Collin College. His first head coaching job came in 2002 when, at age 27, he was hired to lead the program at Sachse High School.
In 2005, he was hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Abilene Christian, spending three seasons with the Wildcats before joining the coaching staff under Steve Shields at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2008. During his final season in Little Rock, Golding helped lead the Trojans to a championship in the Sun Belt Conference tournament and a berth in the 2011 NCAA tournament.{{cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=310670249 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102184801/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=310670249 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2022 |title=Solomon Bozeman's late 3-pointer helps Arkansas-Little Rock edge North Texas |date=March 8, 2011|work=ESPN}}
=Abilene Christian=
Golding's first head coaching job was at his alma mater, when he was hired to lead the program at Abilene Christian in 2011 at age 36. The difficulty of his first two losing seasons with the Wildcats in the Division II Lone Star Conference was compounded when ACU accepted an invitation to join the Southland Conference and make the transition to playing NCAA Division I basketball.{{cite news |url=https://acusports.com/news/2013/6/28/GEN_0628132226.aspx?path=baseball |title=ACU begins new era as move to Division I, Southland Conference becomes official |date=July 1, 2013|work=ACUSports.com}}
After the transition to Division I, Golding and the Wildcats endured four more losing seasons before making their first postseason appearance with a berth in the CIT following the 2017–2018 season.{{cite news |url=https://www.reporternews.com/story/sports/college/acu/basketball-men/2018/03/11/acu-mens-basketball-team-draws-drake-cit-opener/415313002/ |title=ACU men's basketball team draws Drake in CIT opener |date=March 11, 2018|work=Abilene Reporter-News}} The next year, the Wildcats won 27 games, captured the title at the Southland Conference tournament and earned the school's first-ever invitation to the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Kentucky in the first round.{{cite news |url=https://www.reporternews.com/story/sports/college/acu/basketball-men/2019/03/21/ncaa-tournament-historic-abilene-christian-mens-basketball-season-ends-against-kentucky/3219583002/ |title=NCAA Tournament: Historic Abilene Christian men's basketball season ends against Kentucky |date=March 21, 2019|work=Abilene Reporter-News}}
While the Wildcats' second consecutive 20-win season in 2019–20 did not produce a postseason appearance because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they returned to the Big Dance in 2021 by winning their second Southland Conference tournament title.{{cite news |url=https://www.southland.org/news/2021/3/14/mens-basketball-no-2-abilene-christian-dominates-no-1-nicholls-in-successful-title-defense.aspx |title=Abilene Christian dominates Nicholls in successful title defense |date=March 14, 2021|work=Southland Conference}} As the 14th seed in the East Regional, ACU entered the 2021 NCAA tournament as a heavy underdog in the first round against 3rd-seeded Texas, who had just won the Big 12 Conference tournament. Utilizing a stifling defense that forced 23 turnovers, the Wildcats shocked the Longhorns, 53–52. It was the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory and the first win for a 14-seed since 2016.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/no-14-abilene-christian-upsets-no-3-texas-concluding-round-of-ncaa-tournament-shockers/ |title=No. 14 Abilene Christian upsets No. 3 Texas, concluding round of NCAA Tournament shockers |date=March 21, 2021|work=CBS Sports}} The Wildcats' season concluded two days later, when they were defeated by eventual Final Four participant UCLA in the second round.{{cite news |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2021/03/22/ncaa-tournament-run-ends-for-abilene-christian-against-ucla/4793394001/ |title=Abilene Christian's wild run ends in second round at hands of UCLA |date=March 22, 2021|work=Indianapolis Star}}
=UTEP=
On April 14, 2021, Golding was officially introduced as the 20th head men's basketball coach at UTEP in a press conference held at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso.{{cite news |url=https://krod.com/joe-golding-introduced-as-20th-coach-in-utep-basketball-history/ |title=Joe Golding Introduced as 20th Coach in UTEP Basketball History | date=April 14, 2021|work=ESPN Radio El Paso}}{{Cite web|url=https://krod.com/joe-golding-introduced-as-20th-coach-in-utep-basketball-history/|title=Joe Golding Introduced as 20th Coach in UTEP Basketball History|first=Adrian|last=Broaddus|website=KROD}}
Family
Golding's grandfather and great-uncle were brothers, both named Joe Golding,{{cite news |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5626497/the-golding-family-has-a-lot-of-joes |title=Another Joe Golding making news, this time with ripped pants |date=March 21, 2019|work=The Oklahoman}} who each left their own athletic legacy. His grandfather, Joseph Lester Golding, was a longtime high school football coach who led Wichita Falls High to four state championships. The field at Wichita Falls' Memorial Stadium was named in his honor and he was posthumously elected to the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in 1988.{{cite news |url=https://www.texasfootball.com/hof-joe-golding?ref=search |title=Texas High School Football Hall of Fame Inductees: Joe Golding |work=Dave Campbell's Texas Football}} His great-uncle, Joseph Griffith Golding, was an All-American halfback at Oklahoma in 1946 before playing for five seasons in the NFL. His sister, Kate, is married to current TCU football coach Sonny Dykes.{{cite news |url=https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article256686772.html#storylink=mainstage_card2 |title=TCU football’s Sonny Dykes comes from a coaching family, and he married into one, too |date=January 2, 2022|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram}} He and his wife, Amanda, have two sons named Chase and Cason Golding.
Head coaching record
{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Abilene Christian Wildcats
| conference = Lone Star Conference
| startyear = 2011
| endyear = 2013
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2011–12
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 12–16
| conference = 4–14
| confstanding =
| championship =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2012–13
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 12–14
| conference = 6–12
| confstanding =
| championship =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Abilene Christian Wildcats
| conference = Southland Conference
| startyear = 2013
| endyear = 2021
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2013–14
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 11–20
| conference = 2–12
| confstanding = 13th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2014–15
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 10–21
| conference = 4–14
| confstanding = 12th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2015–16
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 13–18
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = 7th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2016–17
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 13–16
| conference = 7–11
| confstanding = T–8th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2017–18
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 16–16
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = T–8th
| postseason = CIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 2018–19
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 27–7
| conference = 14–4
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2019–20
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 15–5
| confstanding = T–2nd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 2020–21
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = 24–5
| conference = 13–2
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 32
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Abilene Christian
| overall = {{winpct|158|144|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winpct|71|68|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = UTEP Miners
| conference = Conference USA
| startyear = 2021
| endyear =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2021–22
| name = UTEP
| overall = 20–14
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = 4th (West)
| postseason = TBC Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2022–23
| name = UTEP
| overall = 14–18
| conference = 7–13
| confstanding = T–9th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2023–24
| name = UTEP
| overall = 18–16
| conference = 7–9
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2024–25
| name = UTEP
| overall = 18–15
| conference = 7–11
| confstanding = 8th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = UTEP
| overall = {{winpct|70|63|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winpct|32|40|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{winpct|228|207|record=y}}
| legend = no
}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.acusports.com/coaches.aspx?rc=315&path=mbball Abilene Christian profile]
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