Mick Cronin is an American

United States

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 college basketball

College basketball

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 coach and the current head coach

Head coach

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 of the Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team

Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball

The Cincinnati Bearcats basketball team is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently compete in the Big East Conference and are coached by Mick Cronin. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in...

. Previously an assistant at Cincinnati under Bob Huggins

Bob Huggins

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 and at Louisville under Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996...

, Cronin's first head coaching job was at Murray State

Murray State University

Murray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is a four-year public university with approximately 10,400 students. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S.News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 20 consecutive years...

. In three seasons at Murray, Cronin led the team to the tournament

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

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 twice and was named the 2006 Ohio Valley Conference

Ohio Valley Conference

The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...

 coach of the year. After the 2006 season, he was hired as Cincinnati's coach, replacing interim coach Andy Kennedy

Andy Kennedy (basketball coach)

Andy Kennedy is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Mississippi . Kennedy was a player in high school at both Winston Academy and Louisville High School...

. In April 2009, Cronin partnered with children's book publisher Mascot Books

Mascot Books

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 to release his first kid's book, Hello, Bearcat! In five seasons at Cincinnati, Cronin has amassed a 86-76 record.

Head coaching record