Bruce Pearl
Head Coach 419-121 (18th yr.) • 102-37 (5th yr. at UT)
Tennessee under Bruce Pearl is the first program in the storied, 76-year history of the SEC to finish ahead of Kentucky in the league standings for four straight seasons.
Collecting Championships In 17 full seasons as a college head coach, Bruce Pearl has led his teams to 15 championships (including four at UT): 2009 SEC Eastern Division Championship, 2008 SEC Championship; 2008 SEC Eastern Division Championship, 2006 SEC Eastern Division Championship, 2005 Horizon League Tournament Championship, 2005 Horizon League Championship, 2004 Horizon League Championship, 2003 Horizon League Tournament Championship, 2001 Great Lakes Valley Championship, 1997 Great Lakes Valley Championship, 1996 Greaat Lakes Valley Championship, 1995 NCAA Division II National Championship, 1995 NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Championship, 1994 NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Championship, 1994 Great Lakes Valley Championship ... This past summer, he added an international championship when he led the Maccabi USA Open Men’s Basketball Team to the gold medal at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel. SEC Success Tennessee’s 46 SEC wins over the last four seasons are the most in the conference over that period ... The Vols finished with the second-best record in the SEC in both of Pearl’s first two years and captured the SEC title outright last season with a 14-2 record ... In 200506, the Vols won the SEC East with a 12-4 conference mark and then posted a 10-6 league mark in 2006-07 that tied for second in the East and in the overall league standings ... 2006 and 2007 NCAA champion Florida has won 40 league games over the last four seasons to rank second behind UT, and under Pearl, the Vols are 7-1 vs. the Gators.
We Are Family Being part of the Tennessee family is important to Pearl as he works tirelessly to promote all sports at Tennessee ... He asks his players to support the other teams at UT as those teams support basketball ... At a Lady Vols basketball game two seasons ago, he joined five of his players as they painted their chests and cheered from the student section ... After Lady Vols’ coach Pat Summitt returned the favor by leading cheers at a men’s game later in the season Pearl said, “It’s a pretty strong family here. How can you lose when you’ve got that kind of family support?” Classroom Commitment Tennessee’s success on the court hasn’t come at the expense of academics ... The Vols have produced 22 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections in Pearl’s four full seasons ... Nine members of the basketball team (more than half the squad) earned Academic All-SEC recognition in 2006-07 ... Six different Vols earned the right to wear the VOLScholar patch on their jersey this semester (3.0 GPA or better during the spring semester). Style Points Tennessee has been one of the highest-scoring teams in the nation the last three years, finishing the 2006-07 season ranked ninth nationally with 80.9 points per game, ranking sixth in the country in 2007-08 with 81.8 ppg and ranking 16th last season ... Pearl’s teams have led their conference in scoring 16 of the 17 years he has been a head coach ... Tennesseehas led the Southeastern Conference in scoring in each of Pearl’s four seasons ... Defense has also been a key ingredient to UT’s success, as the Vols have led the league in steals in three of the last four years, including a school record 336 pilfers in 2006-07. Winningest Active Division I Coaches (Min. 3 years experience) No. Coach 1. Roy Williams 2. Mark Few 3. Jamie Dixon 4. Bruce Pearl
Team North Carolina Gonzaga Pittsburgh Tennessee
Yrs. 22 11 7 18
W-L 595-138 265-66 164-45 419-121
Pct. .811 .800 .784 .776
Fastest Active Coaches To 400 Wins No. Coach 1. Roy Williams 2. Bruce Pearl
Team Games North Carolina 496 Tennessee 509
Season 15th 17th
Record 400-96 400-109
Pearls Endow Scholarship In Bradshaw’s Name The Pearl family announced Feb. 27, 2007, a $100,000 donation to endow a scholarship More SEC Success in the name of Dane Bradshaw ... The Dane Bradshaw Athletic Scholarship Endowment The Vols have a record of .500 or better against nine of the 11 Southeastern Conference is awarded to the male or female student-athlete at UT who best epitomizes the characteams since Bruce Pearl was named head coach prior to the 2005-06 season ... Pearl has teristics of the 2006-07 senior captain ... Senior Tyler Smith is the 2009-10 recipient of the won at least 10 conference games each year, and UT has swept four of its five divisional Dane Bradshaw Athletic Scholarship. opponents twice dring Pearl’s tenure (including last season) ... Pearl has the best career winning percentage of any men’s The Pearl File basketball coach in the SEC with at least three years of exHometown: Boston, Mass. Coaching Career: perience. Alma Mater: Boston College, 1982 1978-82 Boston College (Student Assistant) Bachelor’s degree in business 1982-86 Stanford (Assistant & Associate Coach) How Sweet It Is March 18, 1960 1986-92 Iowa (Assistant Coach) Bruce Pearl is one of only nine Division I head coaches who Born: Daughters - Jacqui and Leah 1992-2001 Southern Indiana (Head Coach) has led his teams to three Sweet Sixteen appearances in the Family: Sons - Steven and Michael 2001-05 Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Head Coach) last five seasons. Wife - Brandy 2005-present Tennessee (Head Coach) Can I Get A Witness? Year School Overall Conference Postseason Tennessee has ranked in the top five nationally in attendance 1992-93 Southern Indiana 22-7 .759 14-4 .788 NCAA II Tournament (1-1) in each of Bruce Pearl’s four seasons in Knoxville ... In 2005-06, 1993-94 Southern Indiana 28-4 .875 16-2 .889 NCAA II Tournament (4-1) National Runner-up UT enjoyed the largest increase in attendance in the nation 1994-95 Southern Indiana 29-4 .879 15-3 .833 NCAA II Tournament (6-0) National Champion (5,504 per game) to rank fifth nationally with an average of 1995-96 Southern Indiana 25-4 .862 18-2 .900 NCAA II Tournament (1-1) Sweet 16 17,954 ... Attendance continued to grow in his second season 1996-97 Southern Indiana 23-5 .821 16-4 .800 NCAA II Tournament (0-1) as the Vols ranked fourth nationally with 19,661 per game ... 1997-98 Southern Indiana 27-6 .818 14-5 .736 NCAA II Tournament (1-1) Sweet 16 Last season, the Vols were watched by an average of 20,483 1998-99 Southern Indiana 26-6 .813 18-4 .818 NCAA II Tournament (2-1) Sweet 16 fans each home game, which ranked fourth nationally and 1999-00 Southern Indiana 25-6 .806 17-3 .850 NCAA II Tournament (1-1) Sweet 16 was the second-largest attendance average in school history 2000-01 Southern Indiana 26-4 .867 18-2 .900 NCAA II Tournament (0-1) ... In Pearl’s four full seasons, attendance has grown by more 2001-02 UW-Milwaukee 16-13 .552 11-5 .688 than 8,000 fans per game. 2002-03 UW-Milwaukee 24-8 .750 13-3 .813 NCAA Tournament (0-1) Can I Get A Ticket? For the third straight season, UT has sold more than 15,000 season tickets ... Prior to the 2007-08 campaign, the record for season-ticket sales was 13,929 in 1987, the first year Thompson-Boling Arena was open.
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Totals
UW-Milwaukee UW-Milwaukee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee 18th season
20-11 26-6 22-8 24-11 31-5 21-13 4-0 419-121
at Tennessee: 102-37 (5th year)
.645 13-3 .813 14-2 .733 12-4 .686 10-6 .861 14-2 .618 10-6 1.000 0-0 .776 242-60
.813 .875 .750 .625 .875 .625 .000 .801
National Invitation Tournament (1-1) NCAA Tournament (2-1) Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament (1-1) NCAA Tournament (2-1) Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament (2-1) Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament (0-1) NCAA Tournament (23-13)
at UW-Milwaukee: 86-38 (4 years) at Southern Indiana: 231-46 (9 years)