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Utah Valley’s Mark Madsen, a former Stanford star, agrees to coach at Cal
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OREM — Utah Valley’s historic males’s basketball season led to the subsequent profession step for the person main this system.
Mark Madsen has agreed to a deal to turn out to be the subsequent head coach at California, as first reported Wednesday by Stadium’s Jeff Goodman, CBS’ Matt Norlander and a bunch of different nationwide faculty basketball reporters. The 47-year-old native of Walnut Creek, California, replaces Mark Fox, who was fired by the Golden Bears after capping a four-year, 38-87 run with a 3-29 document in 2022-23 that included simply two wins in convention play.
The Golden Bears have not completed above .500 since 2017, and posted simply two double-digit win totals up to now six years.
Utah Valley confirmed the transfer Wednesday afternoon, after Madsen had informed his gamers in a closed-door assembly. Related head coach Todd Phillips will lead this system whereas a nationwide seek for Madsen’s substitute is performed.
“Mark Madsen has taken our program to unprecedented never-seen-before heights,” Utah Valley athletic director Jared Sumsion stated. “I recognize how a lot he cared about our student-athletes and we thank him for his service to our program. We want him and his household the easiest in his new position at Cal.”
Madsen, who prepped at San Ramon Valley Excessive College — situated simply 19 miles from the Berkeley campus that serves because the flagship establishment of the College of California system — was additionally a collegiate star at Stanford. A two-time All-American who led the Cardinal to 4 NCAA Event appearances and a Closing 4 berth in 1998.
Many had pegged Madsen to take a brand new job at his alma mater. However when Stanford opted to retain Jarod Haase after a seventh-straight season with out an NCAA Event look, the Bears moved shortly to herald the one-time Bay Space rival.
The No. 29 total decide by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000, Madsen spent 9 seasons within the NBA, gained two championships, earned the respect of the late Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, and captivated all of Los Angeles together with his dance strikes and fluency in Spanish discovered from a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Spain.
After retiring from the NBA, Madsen served as an assistant coach for the Utah Flash within the NBA Improvement League and head coach of the Los Angeles D-Fenders earlier than being promoted to a Lakers assistant beneath Byron Scott and Luke Walton previous to the latter’s dismissal in 2016. That is the place Madsen obtained his begin within the collegiate ranks, succeeding BYU coach Mark Pope at Utah Valley in 2019.
Madsen signed a four-year extension with the college that pushed his base wage over $200,000 yearly in 2021, in keeping with public data obtained by KSL.com on the time, after the Wolverines’ first Western Athletic Convention title in his four-year tenure (the Wolverines shared the WAC regular-season title with Grand Canyon in 2021 resulting from scheduling irregularities and cancelled video games ensuing from the COVID-19 pandemic).
Although a first-time faculty head coach, Madsen completed at or above .500 in three of his 4 seasons in Orem, capped by a program-record 28 wins in 2022-23 that included a WAC regular-season title and this system’s first-ever berth within the NIT semifinals, an 88-86 time beyond regulation loss to UAB at Orleans Area in Las Vegas.
The 2023 WAC Coach of the Yr departs Orem with a 70-51 document, together with a 39-25 mark in WAC play.
Madsen is the third faculty basketball head coach from the state of Utah to maneuver to a brand new job, after Utah State’s Ryan Odom reportedly accepted a suggestion to affix Virginia Commonwealth and Southern Utah’s Todd Simon moved to Bowling Inexperienced.