Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | California Baptist |
Conference | WAC |
Record | 233–113 (.673) |
Biographical details | |
Born | San Diego County, California, U.S. | July 19, 1977
Playing career | |
1996–1999 | San Francisco State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1999–2001 | UC Riverside (asst.) |
2001–2002 | Concordia Irvine (asst.) |
2002–2005 | UC Riverside (asst.) |
2005–2010 | Citrus College |
2010–2013 | St. Mary's (asst.) |
2013–present | California Baptist |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 130–35 (.788) (junior college) 233–113 (.673) (college) |
Tournaments | 7–4 (NCAA Division II) 0–2 (CBI) |
Richard K. Croy (born July 19, 1977) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the California Baptist Lancers men's basketball team. Croy has been a basketball coach since 1999 and has held his current position at California Baptist since 2013.
Croy grew up in Walnut Creek, California and played college basketball at San Francisco State. He began his basketball coaching career as an assistant at UC Riverside and Concordia University Irvine. His first head coaching position was at the junior college level at Citrus College from 2005 to 2010. Under Croy, Citrus won 130 games, three conference titles, and a California state championship.
At California Baptist, Croy led the Lancers to five straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances from 2014 to 2018 and two Pacific West Conference titles. In 2018, California Baptist moved to Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; Croy led California Baptist to an appearance in the 2019 College Basketball Invitational, and California Baptist had winning records in its first three Division I seasons.