Tim Wise
Head Coach
Phone: (601) 974-1188
Email:
wiseta@millsaps.edu
Tim Wise enters his seventh season as the head men's basketball coach at Millsaps College after guiding the Majors to an 83-77 overall record the previous six seasons at the helm. He's also served as Millsaps' athletic director since July 2006.
Millsaps' roster is very young, but talented, with SCAC experience. Wise and the Majors welcome back six lettermen, which includes three starters from last year's team, and add 16 freshmen and a junior college transfer.
Wise's past successes include five trips to the SCAC Tournament and a trip to the NCAA Tournament (Elite Eight) in 2007-08 in which the Majors posted a school record 28-4 mark and were ranked No. 6 in the final D3hoops.com poll of the season. He also made the NCAA Tournament as an assistant coach during the 2000-01 season.
Wise won just 14 games against 36 losses as head coach during his first two seasons after taking over for Millsaps' all-time winningest coach John Stroud, but has guided the Majors to a 69-41 (.627) record over the previous four seasons to become the fourth winningest coach in school history dating back to 1911.
A native of Memphis, Tenn., Wise played both basketball and golf for Millsaps from 1985-89, earning four letters each under head coach Don Holcomb and the late Mary Ann Edge. Wise graduated from Millsaps in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He holds the Millsaps career record for assists with 552.
A 1985 graduate of Memphis University School, Wise coached at three Memphis area high schools from 1989-98. He started his coaching and teaching career in 1989 at St. Benedict Catholic School in Cordova, Tenn. In 1992, Wise returned to Memphis University School where he coached the junior varsity until 1997.
In the fall of 1997, Wise moved to newly opened Cordova High School as the men's head basketball coach and head golf coach.
Wise is married to the former Rachel Cook of Memphis, who is also a Millsaps grad. They have three children, Luke, Anna and Allie.
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