.jpg) Pearl in 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| Current position | |||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Auburn | ||||||||||||||
| Conference | SEC | ||||||||||||||
| Record | 216–119 (.645) | ||||||||||||||
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||||
| Born | March 18, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Boston College ('82) | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
| 1982–1986 | Stanford (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Iowa (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–2001 | Southern Indiana | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | Milwaukee | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2011 | Tennessee | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–present | Auburn | ||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
| Overall | 678–264 (.720) | ||||||||||||||
| Tournaments | 17–13 (NCAA Division I) 1–1 (NIT) 13–10 (SEC) 5–2 (Horizon League) 8–4 (GLVC) | ||||||||||||||
| Accomplishments and honors | |||||||||||||||
| Championships | |||||||||||||||
| NCAA Division I Regional – Final Four (2019) NCAA Division II tournament (1995) 4 GLVC regular season (1994, 1996, 1997, 2001) 2 Horizon League tournament (2003, 2005) 2 Horizon League regular season (2004, 2005) 3 SEC regular season (2008, 2018, 2022) 2 SEC tournament (2019, 2024) | |||||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||||
| NABC Division II Coach of the Year (1995) Sporting News Coach of the Year (2006) Adolph Rupp Cup (2008) 2× GLVC Coach of the Year (1993, 1994) 3× Horizon League Coach of the Year (2002, 2003, 2005) 3× SEC Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2022) | |||||||||||||||
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Bruce Alan Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men's basketball team. He previously served in the same position for Tennessee, Milwaukee, and Southern Indiana. Pearl led Southern Indiana to a Division II national championship in 1995, during which he was named Division II Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
In Division I, his teams have won four conference championships and four conference tournament championships, and qualified for eleven NCAA tournament appearances and one Final Four. Pearl is the second-fastest NCAA coach to reach 300 victories, needing only 382 games to reach this mark (Roy Williams needed 370 games at Kansas to reach this milestone).
Pearl was named Coach of the Year by Sporting News in 2006 and was awarded the Adolph Rupp Cup in 2008. He also served as the head coach for the Maccabi USA men's basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.