BIOGRAPHY

Check out the impressive list of players, coached by Alvin Brooks, that went on to play professional basketball

 

Former Texas A&M assistant coach and University of Houston head coach Alvin Brooks is in his first season with the Kentucky basketball program.

Brooks, a three-year assistant at Texas A&M under coach Billy Gillispie, was also on Gillispie s staff at UTEP in 2003-04. Brooks has helped Gillispie engineer two of the best single-season turnarounds in college basketball history.

The Miners went 24-8 in 2003-04, won a share of the Western Athletic Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 12 years.

Brooks, 48, served as head coach at Houston from 1993-1998. The Cougars went 17-10 and 13-3 in conference, finishing second in the Southwest Conference in 1996. Houston posted wins over No. 3-ranked Memphis and No. 19 Tulsa in his tenure.

Brooks has 26 years of college coaching experience and has been affiliated with 15 postseason tournament teams as a coach and player. He has tutored 16 players who went on to play in the NBA.

A 1982 graduate of Lamar, he was a twoyear letterwinner for the Cardinals (1979-81), averaging 10.4 points and 6.9 assists per game in his career.

He earned second-team All-Southland Conference honors in 1981 and was the starting point guard on the 1980 team that reached the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. He was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in 1981.

In the late 1970s, Brooks was a standout player at powerful Wheatley High School in Houston, where he averaged 25.9 points and nine assists per game and earned all-city recognition.