Head coaches Tim Carter of South Carolina State University and Mark Gottfried of the University of Alabama have been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
“We are very pleased and fortunate to have Tim Carter and Mark Gottfried join our board of directors,” said NABC President Tubby Smith of the University of Minnesota. “Both have been strong advocates for our game and I’m looking forward to working with them.”
“I am honored and humbled to be able to serve my fellow coaches,” said Carter when informed of his election. “It’s not often that you get an opportunity to serve on a national board that makes decisions about basketball.”
Carter is set to begin his second season at South Carolina State. He previously was an assistant coach at Florida State for one season after an 11-year tenure as the head coach at the University of Texas-San Antonio, where became the Roadrunners all-time winningest coach with 160 victories. UTSA reached the NCAA tournament for the second time in school history in 1999 and gained a berth again in 2004.
Carter, a University of Kansas graduate, was the Southland Conference Coach of the Year in 1999. He was the head coach at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for one season and also served as an assistant at Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Houston and Northwestern in his 26 seasons.
Gottfried is beginning his 11th season as head coach at his alma mater, where his teams have a 198-124 won-lost record, including a Southeastern Conference championship. The Crimson Tide has reached the NCAA tournament five times under Gottfried and advanced to the Elite Eight in 2003-04. Alabama has also played three times in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) three times in the last 10 seasons and Gottfried was the AP and SEC Coaches’ Coach of the Year in 2002.
He began his career as an assistant at Alabama for three seasons before moving on to UCLA for seven seasons. The Bruins reached the NCAA tournament in each of those seasons and won the NCAA championship in 1995. He was also the head coach at Murray State for three seasons with a 68-24 won-lost record.