2012-13 BULLDOG BASKETBALL
ISAAC BROWN Assistant Coach
Isaac Brown enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs after being added by new head coach Michael White to the coaching staff. Brown’s responsibility for the Bulldogs mainly involved coaching the wings and guards, which consisted almost entirely of underclassmen. With his assistance, LA Tech featured two guards on the all-WAC team, one of which also made the all-WAC defensive team and the other was honored as WAC Freshman of the Year. The 2011-12 team finished the regular season winning five of their last six games and rode that momentum into the WAC Tournament as they upset Utah State in the quarterfinals and top-seeded Nevada in the semifinals in route to the program’s first-ever WAC Tournament final. After coming up just 40 minutes short of the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1991, the Bulldogs finished with an overall record of 18-16, a six win improvement from the year before. Prior to joining White’s staff, Brown served as associate head coach at Arkansas State. In the 2010-11 season, Brown helped the Red Wolves to a 17-14 overall record including a 13-0 mark at home while serving under head coach John Brady. ASU won the Sun Belt Conference West Division title with an 11-5 record. Prior to ASU, Brown spent three years at the University of Arkansas (2007-10) under head coach John Pelphrey, assisting with recruiting and on-the-floor coaching. During his time with the Razorbacks, Brown helped lead the squad to a 52-45 record, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2008 when the team advanced to the second round. Prior to his stint at Arkansas, Brown served on the coaching staff for Pelphrey at South Alabama for five seasons. During his time at USA, Brown helped direct the Jaguars to the best turnaround in the nation in 2006 when the team improved its record to 24-7 after two losing seasons, captured the SBC West Division title and tournament championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998. Following their success in 2007, the Jaguars posted a 20-12 record in 2007, won the SBC regular-season title and earned a berth in the NIT, where it dropped a 79-73 decision to Syracuse. The 2007 team led the Sun Belt in turnover margin (+2.53), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.12) and three-point defense (.325), and it was second in steals (7.22) and scoring defense (67.3). The Jaguars also made 272-of-749 three-pointers, an average of 8.5 per game. Brown began his coaching career at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Miss., in 1997. After two years, he went to his hometown school as an assistant at Pascagoula (Miss.) High School. Following one season, he moved back into the junior college ranks at Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Niceville, Fla. At OWCC, he recruited and coached Kedric Brown, who in 2001 became the first junior college player selected as an NBA lottery pick (No. 11 by Boston). He also coached guard Donell Taylor, who played two seasons with the NBA’s Washington Wizards. Fifteen OWCC players signed Division I scholarships while Brown was on the staff. Brown earned his bachelor’s in health and physical education from Louisiana-Monroe in 1995. He played two years at Mississippi Gulf Coast CC (1989-90), spent one season at Texas A&M (1991), transferred to Louisiana Monroe and sat out the 1992 season before helping his team win the 1993 Southland Conference title with a 17-1 conference mark, finished 27-4 overall and earned a NCAA tournament bid.
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