Ole Miss Basketball Coach Chris Beard Agrees To A New Contract – News18

OXFORD, Miss.: Mississippi coach Chris Beard has agreed to a brand new contract amid a debut season when he received his first 13 video games.

Keith Carter, the Ole Miss vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics, introduced the brand new deal on Wednesday, the one-12 months anniversary of Beard’s hiring. The faculty didn’t launch particulars of the contract.

Beard obtained a 4-12 months take care of the Rebels and was scheduled to make $3.35 million subsequent season. State regulation limits contracts to a most of 4 years.

The tenth-seeded Rebels are 20-11 getting into the Southeastern Conference Tournament, their first 20-win season in 5 years. They’ll face No. 7 seed Texas A&M on Thursday evening in Nashville, Tennessee.

“We are just getting started,” Beard stated in a press release.

Ole Miss matched this system document with a 13-0 begin and entered SEC play with a No. 19 rating. The Rebels completed 7-11 in common-season league video games.

“The future of Ole Miss Basketball could not be brighter under Coach Beard’s leadership,” Carter stated in a press release. “His impact on every facet of our program was immediately apparent, and it has translated to a new standard of success and a culture that is building every day.

“He has galvanized Rebel Nation, and particularly our student body, and created a newfound passion for men’s basketball that is felt throughout the entire Ole Miss community.”

Beard is a 4-time convention coach of the 12 months and was AP’s nationwide coach of the 12 months in 2019.

His two-12 months tenure at alma mater Texas ended abruptly in January 2023 following a home violence arrest. Felony home costs had been in the end dismissed and a prosecutor stated his workplace decided that the cost of assault by strangulation/suffocation-household violence couldn’t be confirmed past an inexpensive doubt.

Beard was arrested when his fiancée, Randi Trew, known as 911 and advised officers that Beard strangled, bit and hit her throughout a confrontation in his dwelling. She later stated that Beard didn’t choke her, and was defending himself, and that she by no means meant for Beard to be arrested and prosecuted.

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