{"id":206379,"date":"2026-03-26T03:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206379\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:32:14","slug":"south-florida-hires-chris-mack-as-coach-after-hodgsons-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206379\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida hires Chris Mack as coach after Hodgson’s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 25, 2026, 10:44 PM ET<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. — South Florida hired Chris Mack as its men’s basketball coach Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Mack leaves the College of Charleston, where he went 45-20 over the past two seasons. He has a career record of 323-153 over 15 seasons, including a dozen 20-win seasons and nine NCAA tournament appearances.<\/p>\n

Mack replaces Bryan Hodgson, who led USF to the NCAA tournament this season. The Bulls lost 83-79 to Louisville — one of Mack’s former stops — in the first round before Hodgson took took the job at Providence.<\/p>\n

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“I am truly excited for the opportunity to lead a South Florida basketball program that’s on an exceptional trajectory and to join a university and athletic department defined by strong leadership, shared aspirations, and tremendous alignment,” Mack said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mack coached Xavier from 2009 to 2018 and made four trips to the Sweet 16 and one Elite Eight appearance. He was runner-up for AP Coach of the Year in 2016 behind Kansas’ Bill Self.<\/p>\n

He coached Louisville from 2018 to 2022, with an NCAA tournament appearance in 2019. The Cardinals reached No. 1 in the AP poll for two weeks during the 2019-20 season, which was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mack was fired midway through the 2022 season after a 6-8 start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 25, 2026, 10:44 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — South Florida hired Chris Mack as its men’s basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-206379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}