Ray Lopes

Raymond Lopes (born December 8, 1962) is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach at Washington State University. He was the head men's basketball coach at Fresno State from 2002 to 2005, before resigning due to his involvement in the recruiting violations the program committed during his time there.[1]

Ray Lopes
Personal information
Born (1962-12-08) December 8, 1962
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Career information
High schoolMoreau Catholic
(Hayward, California)
College
Coaching career1987–2014
Career history
As coach:
1987–1988West Valley CC (assistant)
1988–1989Weber State (assistant)
1989–1993UC Santa Barbara (assistant)
1993–1994Washington State (assistant)
1994–2002Oklahoma (assistant)
2002–2005Fresno State
2006–2008Idaho Stampede (associate HC)
2008–2009Idaho (assistant)
2009–2012Idaho (associate HC)
2012–2014Washington State (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As coach:
  • WAC regular season (2003)
  • WAC Coach of the Year (2003)
Career coaching record
NCAA:50–37 (.575)

Coaching career

Lopes began his coaching career at West Valley Community College as an assistant coach, later going on to coach at Weber State, UC Santa Barbara, Washington State, and Oklahoma.

Fresno State

Lopes was named the head coach at Fresno State on April 3, 2002, replacing Jerry Tarkanian.[2] In his first season at the helm, he led the Bulldogs to their first outright regular season conference title since 1965 en route to earning conference Coach of the Year honors.[3]

Lopes resigned from Fresno State after the 2004–05 season after it was revealed that he had violated the telephone contact recruiting rule, something that he had also done while as an assistant at Oklahoma.[1] He received a three-year show-cause penalty as a punishment, beginning from his departure from Fresno State.[4]

Post–Fresno State

Lopes spent one season as a scout with the San Antonio Spurs before joining the Idaho Stampede of the NBA D-League as the associate head coach.[5] He was also an assistant coach at Idaho before returning for another stint at Washington State as an assistant.[6][7]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Fresno State (Western Athletic Conference) (2002–2005)
2002–03 Fresno State 20–8 [n 1]13–5 [n 1]1st [n 1]
2003–04 Fresno State 14–1510–86th
2004–05 Fresno State 16–149–9T–4th
Fresno State: 50–37 (.575)32–22 (.593)
Total:50–37 (.575)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Notes
  1. Fresno State was not eligible for the NCAA tournament as they were under probation for academic violations and as a result, was not eligible for the WAC tournament.[8]

References
  1. "Lopes Resigns as Fresno State Men's Basketball Coach". Fresno State Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. "Lopes takes over at Fresno State". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. "Four Bulldogs Earn Men's Basketball All-WAC Honors". Fresno State Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  4. "Fired Lopes treated differently than IU's Sampson". ESPN. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  5. "Former WAC Coach of the Year joins Stampede coaching staff". OurSportsCentral. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  6. "Ray Lopes joins Vandal basketball program". NBC Right Now. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  7. "Ray Lopes Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coach". Washington State University Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  8. "NCAA gives Fresno State athletics four years probation". ESPN. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
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