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UofL announces Chris Mack will be next head coach for men's basketball

Chris Mack is coming to UofL to coach.

LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- UofL officially announced Chris Mack will be coaching the men's basketball team.

Mack previously coached at Xavier University. In nine seasons as the head coach at Xavier, Mack guided the Musketeers to a 215-97 record and eight NCAA Tournament appearances (the last five straight years), including reaching the Sweet 16 on four occasions and the Elite Eight in 2017. His teams won or shared three conference regular season championships while compiling a 105-49 league record over nine seasons in the Big East and Atlantic 10.

His most recent 2017-18 squad achieved a 29-6 record, won Xavier's first Big East Conference regular season championship and earned the school's first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Mack was honored as the 2018 Big East Coach of the Year, NABC District 5 Coach of the Year, and he became the all-time coaching wins leader with the Musketeers. Xavier finished third in the final Associated Press poll – its highest ever ranking -- and this year's team was one short of the school record for victories.

Mack's contract with the Cardinals will be for seven years, extending through the 2024-25 season. He will be just the fourth head coach to guide the Cardinals in the last 48 years. Mack is the 21st head coach in Louisville's 104-year history and the seventh in the past 73 years.

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Mack and his wife, Christi, have two daughters, Lainee (12) and Hailee (11), and a son, Brayden (3). A native of Louisville, the former Christi Hester was the runner-up for Kentucky Miss Basketball as a senior at Holy Cross High School. She played basketball at Dayton, where she scored 1,268 career points and was later inducted into the university's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014. She served as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Xavier women's basketball team (2001-03) and more recently as the head girls basketball coach at Cincinnati's Colerain High School Cardinals.

Mack and his wife created the Mack Family Foundation in 2016, a family-centered foundation whose mission is to serve, inspire and aid less fortunate children.

For more information on Mack's history, click here.

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