Brian Barone

Brian Barone is the head coach of the men's basketball team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), an NCAA Division I program competing in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).

Coaching history Barone began his coaching career as a junior college assistant at Central Florida Community College, then at Garden City Community College in Kansas.

He began his Division I coaching career at Illinois State under head coach Porter Moser, currently the head men's basketball coach at Oklahoma. After five seasons at ISU, he became the coordinator of basketball operations and video coordinator at Marquette under head coach Tom Crean. He followed Crean to Indiana to serve as IU's director of basketball operations/video coordinator. However, in a highly unusual move, all of Harris' staff of assistant coaches Brian Barone, Charles "Bubba" Wells, and Mike Waldo and Director of Operations Casey Wyllie was retained, and Barone was later initially named as interim head coach. The interim tag was removed when Barone was confirmed as head coach by the SIU board of trustees, and his contract was then extended through the 2023–24 season.

Early life and playing career Barone was born December 15, 1977, in Chicago, Illinois shortly before his family moved to Peoria, Illinois where his father Tony Barone Sr. became an assistant coach of the Bradley Braves men's basketball team. He started playing college basketball for his father, then head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies. He earned honorable mention on the All-Big XII team as a sophomore, as well as being named to the Big XII Academic All-Conference team. When his father left A&M to coach in the NBA, Barone transferred to Marquette. After "redshirting" a season under NCAA transfer rules, he played two seasons for Marquette, becoming team captain and a member of the Conference USA All-Academic Team.

Barone earned a bachelor's in communications from Marquette in 2000 and followed that with a master's degree in communications from Marquette in 2002.

Personal life Barone and his wife, Mimi, have a son, Carson, and three daughters, Ava, Gianna and Cecilia.

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