USD Men's Basketball 2007-2008

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Head Coach First-Season San Francisco, 1987

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ill Carr is in his first year as Associate Head Coach on Bill Grier's staff.

Carr comes to USD from nearby UC San Diego where he was the head coach the past three seasons. Carr compiled a 38-45 record for the Tritons, and his 15-14 mark of 2005-06 was the first winning season since the Tritons moved to NCAA Division II in 2000- 01 .This past season UCSD went 12- 15 overall and 10-12 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Carr returns to the West Coast Conference where he was a player and assistant coach at the University of San Francisco.Carr played two years (1985-87) at USF for former USD coach Jim Brovelli. The first year was the "Back to Basketball" group that marked the restart of the program after a th ree-year hiatus. Carr earned a degree in account– ing and went on to spend nine years as an assistant at USF for Brovelli (5 years) and Phil Mathews (4 years). He helped land 10 first team AII-WCC performers, including the 1998 and 2000 WCC Freshmen of the Year. USF advanced to the NCAA Tour– nament in 1998 after winning the WCC Tournament title.

Before getting the head position at UCSD, Carr served two seasons as the associat e head coach at Long Beach State, and th ree as the head coach at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama . A native of Glendale, Calif., Carr accu– mulated a ca reer mark of 84-23 (.785) at Spring Hill, leading the Badgers to th ree appearances in the NAIA National Tournament . In 2000 and 2001, Spring Hill advanced to the NAIA "Elite Eight''. In his first season (1999-00) Carr led Spring Hill to a 29-8 mark, a Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) championship and a trip to the NAIA Tournament, , where it advanced to the final eight. Carr was named GCAC Coach of the Year that season and was a fi na list for the NAIA Nationa I Coach of the Year.

The Carr Family: Bill, Pam and their children {l-r) Paul, Madison and Allie

Bill and his wife, Pam, have three children - Allie, Mad i– son and Paul.