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Apr 23, 2024
5:53:20pm
md7Coug All-American
RE: Why is Doug Stewart a potential assistant head coach?
Doug Stewart was named associate head coach for Tulane men’s basketball on April 27, 2016.

Prior to his arrival in New Orleans, Stewart spent the 2015-16 campaign as an assistant coach at Nevada under head coach Eric Musselman. Stewart was a key part of the Wolf Pack's 15-win turnaround from one season prior, finishing the year with a 24-14 record and winning the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) championship.

While at Nevada, Stewart led recruiting efforts and signed the 35th-best class in the nation in 2015, according to Rivals.com. The class proved to be one of the best in Mountain West Conference history, comprising a trio of future all-league players: Cam Oliver (First Team), Marcus Marshal (First Team), and Jordan Caroline (Second Team). The Wolf Pack became the first team in MWC and school history to win a national postseason tournament. Oliver received a multi-year NBA contract from the Houston Rockets in the summer of 2017.

Previous to his stint at Nevada, Stewart spent time on the professional circuit as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers’ NBA Developmental League team, the Delaware 86ers.

Stewart worked six seasons in the Pac-12 Conference as the associate head coach at Oregon State from 2008-14, and briefly served as interim head coach in 2014. Among his accomplishments, he spearheaded the Beavers' recruiting efforts and helped them to the CBI crown in 2009. Stewart played an integral part in recruiting three future NBA players (Gary Payton II, Jared Cunningham and Eric Moreland), as well as Pac-12 scoring leader Roberto Nelson. Doug Stewart enters his sixth year with the Oregon State men’s basketball program as associate head coach.

In his first five seasons at Oregon State, Stewart has helped lead a remarkable turnaround that has seen the Beavers win 78 games, including a 21-15 mark in 2011-12 for the Beavers first 20-win season in more than two decades and just their second winning season since 1989-90 when All-American Gary Payton was a senior.

Stewart was instrumental in helping Oregon State raise money to build a 34,500-square-foot, $15 million, state-of-the-art basketball practice facility that was completed in June 2013. In his sixth season as associate head coach, the Beavers will wear new uniforms as part of a recent brand and identity evolution program through a partnership with Nike.

Stewart’s fourth year in Corvallis saw immediate results with a full roster of players that were recruited by the current coaching staff as the Beavers led the Pac-12 in scoring for the first time ever with a school record 78.9 points per game and led the conference in steals for the third consecutive year. Oregon State also pulled off the biggest upset in Pac-12 Tournament history with a win over No. 1-seed Washington and advanced to postseason play for the third time in four years where the Beavers won two games in the CBI.

In the third year as the associate head coach, Stewart helped lead the Beavers to their first win over a Top 25 team since 2006 and its first win in the Pac-10 Tournament since that same year. Oregon State also had its second-ever player make the Pac-10 All-Tournament Team and finished fifth in the nation in steals at 9.45 per game, the most for a Beavers’ team since 1990.

During his second season, Stewart helped lead Oregon State to a tie for fifth-place in the Pacific-10 Conference, the highest finish for the Beavers since 2004-05. The defense ranked among the nation’s leaders in points allowed (61.1, No. 28), three-point percentage defense (30.8 percent, No. 33) and steals per game (8.1, No. 37).

In his first year at Oregon State, Stewart helped lead one of the most-improved teams in the nation as the Beavers captured the College Basketball Invitational championship for the first postseason men's basketball title in school history. Oregon State won 12 more games than the previous season and the turnaround ranked No. 3 in the nation and was the fifth biggest turnaround in Pac-10 history.

Under Stewart's guidance, Oregon State has brought in five highly-decorated recruiting classes that have included 10 top-150 players. The 2009 class was ranked 10th in the nation by hoopscooponline.com and 21st in the nation by Rivals.com, while the 2010 class was ranked 28th in the nation by hoopscooponline.com.

In 2009, he orchestrated the recruitment of the 10th-ranked class in the country according to Rivals.com, while Hoopscooponline.com tabbed the crop No. 22 overall.

Stewart was the top assistant at Brown University from 2006-08, where he was the recruiting coordinator in addition to his scouting and on-court responsibilities He helped the Bears to a school-record 19 wins during the 2007-08 season.

He also spent two seasons as the head coach at Casper College where he was in charge of all aspects of the Division I junior college program. The team was in contention for the Central Sub-Region title each season he coached the squad.

In 2003, Stewart worked as an assistant coach at Columbia University for current Los Angeles Clippers assistant coach Armond Hill. He also coached at Washington and Lee University in 2002.

From 1994-99 Stewart was a player and coach with the Washington Generals. The Generals are the longtime opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters.

A four-year letterwinner and team captain at Brown, Stewart graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He was the recipient of the 1994 Thomas Hoagland Award, presented annually to the member of the varsity team who exemplifies true unselfishness through commitment and hard work, both on the court and in the community.

A native of Haddonfield, New Jersey, he was inducted into the Haddonfield Memorial High School Hall of Fame in 2009.

Stewart and his wife, Lindsay, have three sons, Sullivan, Griffin and Macklin.
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