Casey Long - Men's Basketball Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Casey Long

At Murray State

Long is in his fith season at Murray State in the 2021-22 season.
He has been a part one of the greatest periods of program history that includes three-straight OVC regular season championships (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20) and two OVC Tournament titles (2017-18, 2018-19).
n the last three seasons, the Racers are a combined 90-33 (.731) overall and 57-17 (.770) in OVC games and at home, they are 53-7 (.883) in the CFSB Center.
In the 2019-20 season, MSU was 23-9 and 15-3 in the OVC.
The Racers were Co-OVC champions, marking the program's 27th regular season title.
MSU had an 11-game winning streak overall and a 21-game home winning streak.
In the 2018-19 Season, MSU had 28 wins, marking the 10th time in 94 seasons that MSU posted 25 or more victories.
MSU was regular season OVC champions for 26th time & made their 17th NCAA appearance.
MSU was No. 12 seed and defeated No. 5 Marquette for the Racers’ fourth all-time win in the tournament.
in the 2017-18 season, the Racers were 26-6 and won the OVC regular season championship at 16-2.
They competed in the NCAA Tournament in San Diego where they faced West Virginia.
He has coached OVC consensus All-America selection Ja Morant and OVC Player of the Year and Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention selection Jonathan Stark and OVC Defensive Player of the Year, Shaq Buchanan and All-OVC selections Tevin Brown and KJ Williams.

Before MSU

Served on staff of Coach Will Wade for two seasons at VCU from 2015-17.
At VCU, he was part of a successful two seasons.
In the 2015-16 season, the Rams shared the Atlantic 10 Conference title.
In the 2016-17 season, VCU finished second.
In two seasons, VCU was 51-20 overall and 18-8 in the A-10 and made back-to-back NCAA appearances.
Was an assistant at his alma mater, Chattanooga from 2012-15.
As a student-athlete at Chattanooga, Long had an amazing career.
He is the only player in program history to finish his career with more than 1000 points, 450 rebounds, and 350 assists.

Personal

His hometown is Leesville, Louisiana.
Long graduated with a degree in political science from Chattanooga in 2007.
He is married to the former Co’chea Rivera. The couple has two daughters, Catalina (5) and Camila (2).