Chris Crutchfield

Chris DeShawn Crutchfield (born December 20, 1968)

Playing career Crutchfield was a two-sport athlete at Omaha, where he was a member of the basketball and football teams. Crutchfield would then join Lou Henson's staff at New Mexico State from 2001 to 2005 before assistant coaching stops at TCU and Oral Roberts.

In 2011, Crutchfield landed on Lon Kruger's coaching staff at Oklahoma where he was a part of six NCAA Tournament appearances, including the Sooners' 2016 Final Four team. In 2019, Crutchfield would join Eric Musselman at Arkansas for a single season before taking the head coaching position at East Central, a Division II institution. In his lone season at the helm of East Central, Crutchfield guided the team to a 10–9 mark before heading back to the Division I ranks as an assistant under Dana Altman at Oregon.

On March 18, 2022, Crutchfield was named the 22nd head coach in Omaha men's basketball history, replacing Derrin Hansen.

Head coaching record