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Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Director for Player Development
- Email:
- hprice@central.uh.edu
| ABOUT HOLLIS PRICE | |
| Hometown | New Orleans, La. |
| College | Oklahoma '11 |
| Family | Wife, Michel Son, Hollis II Stepson, Kalil Thomas |
| COACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| Year | Team, Position |
| 2023 – | Houston, Special Assistant to the Head Coach/Assistant Coach |
| 2022-23 | Houston, Assistant Coach |
| 2021-22 | Houston, Special Assistant to the Head Coach |
| 2014-21 | Houston, Director of Player Development |
| 2013-14 | Texas Legends, Assistant Coach (NBA Developmental League) |
| CHAMPIONSHIPS | |
| 2024-25 | • Big 12 Champions • Big 12 Tournament Champions |
| 2023-24 | Big 12 Champions |
| 2022-23 | American Athletic Tournament Champions |
| 2021-22 | • American Athletic Champions • American Athletic Tournament Champions |
| 2020-21 | • NCAA Final Four • American Athletic Tournament Champions |
| 2019-20 | American Athletic Champions |
| 2018-19 | American Athletic Champions |
| NBA DRAFT SELECTIONS | |
| Year | Experience |
| 2024 | Jamal Shead (Toronto Raptors) | Second Round | #45 pick |
| 2023 | Jarace Walker (Indiana Pacers) | First Round | #8 pick Marcus Sasser (Detroit Pistons) | First Round | #25 pick |
| 2022 | Quentin Grimes (New York Knicks) | First Round | #25 pick |
| 2017 | Damyean Dotson (New York Knicks | Second Round | #44 pick |
| PROFESSIONAL PLAYING EXPERIENCE | |
| 2010-11 | Alba Berlin |
| 2010 | Artland Dragos |
| 2009 | Olympia Milano |
| 2008-09 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 2007-08 | Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius |
| 2006-07 | Cajasol Sevilla |
| 2005-06 | Alba Berlin |
| 2003-05 | Le Mans France |
| COLLEGIATE PLAYING EXPERIENCE | |
| 1999-03 | Oklahoma |
| School record 110 wins | |
| 2003 All-America Second Team (AP) | |
| 2002 All-America Third Team (Sporting News) | |
| 2003, 2002 All-Big 12 First Team | |
| 2003, 2002, USBWA All-District VI Team | |
| 2003, 202 NABC All-District 12 First Team | |
| 2003, 2002, John R. Wooden Award Finalist | |
| 2002 NCAA Tournament West Regional Most Outstanding Player | |
| 2002 Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player | |
| 2001 Big 12 All-Tournament Team | |
| 2000 Big 12 All-Freshman Team | |
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Former Oklahoma All-American Hollis Price joined the University of Houston Men’s Basketball program in May 2014 as its director of player development.
He was elevated to special assistant to Head Coach Kelvin Sampson in May 2021 and has served as an assistant coach since the 2022-23 season.
During his time at Houston, Price has been a part of the resurgence of the Houston Basketball program.
The Cougars have won 20+ games in 10 consecutive seasons (a first in program history), captured four American Athletic Conference regular-season championships in a five-year stretch, won the 2022 and 2021 American Athletic Conference Championship crowns with the Big 12 Confererence regular-season title in 2023-24 and a sweep of the Big 12 regular-season and tournament championships in 2024-25.
The Cougars have enjoyed seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including an NCAA National Championship Game appearance in 2025, Sweet 16 berths in 2024 and 2023, an Elite Eight appearance in 2022, a Final Four appearance in 2021 and another Sweet 16 berth in 2019.
The program has also reached national prominence by being ranked in the Top 25 in the final Associated Press and USA TODAY Sports Coaches polls for eight consecutive years, including each of the last five seasons among the Top 10.
at HOUSTON
In 2024-25, Price helped led the Cougars to one of the greatest seasons in program history.
The Cougars – who finished #2 in both national polls – set a school single-season record with 35 wins and advanced to the NCAA Tournament National Championship Game before falling to Florida inside Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Houston won 31 of its final 33 games to end the season and advanced to the NCAA Final Four for the seventh time in program history with a resounding 69-50 win over #6/6 (2) Tennessee during the Elite Eight in Indianapolis on March 30.
The Cougars swept the Big 12 regular-season and tournament championships in their second year in the league and set school and league records with a 19-1 mark in conference games. Houston became the first school to join a major conference and win the regular-season title in each of its first two years in the league in more than 100 years.
In 2023-24, Houston advanced to the program’s fifth straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, a school record.
The Cougars posted a 32-5 overall record and captured the Big 12 regular-season championship by two games over its closest competitor in its first year in the league, despite starting 1-2 in conference play.
Although several student-athletes were lost with season-ending injuries throughout the year, Houston recorded its third straight 30-win season – a school record – and was ranked in the Top 10 of both national polls for the entire campaign.
Point guard Jamal Shead was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year to become the first player in league history to win both honors in the same season. Shead was a unanimous consensus First-Team All-American and was recognized as National Defensive Player of the Year by the Naismith Awards, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Field of 68 and Andy Katz.
In his first season as a UH assistant coach in 2022-23, Price helped lead the Cougars to a 33-4 overall record and a 17-1 record in American Athletic Conference play.
The Cougars ranked among the nation’s Top-Six leaders in both national polls for the entire season and spent eight weeks at No. 1 for the first time since 1984.
Houston captured the American Athletic Conference regular-season title for the fourth time in a five-year stretch and swept the league’s postseason individual awards
The Cougars competed as the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1983 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 or farther for the fourth straight season.
PRE-HOUSTON
Price, who is a native of New Orleans, joined the Cougars after serving as an assistant coach with the Texas Legends in the NBA Developmental League during the 2013-14 season. He served under head coach Eduardo Najera, who also competed for Sampson at Oklahoma from 1996 to 2000.
Price entered the coaching ranks with the Legends after a nine-year professional career overseas. He was honored as the Most Valuable Player of the Lithuania Basketball League and competed in several international competitions, including the France Cup and the Germany Cup.
PLAYING CAREER
Price was a decorated student-athlete during his playing career at Oklahoma from 1999 to 2003. As a senior during the 2002-03 campaign, he was named to the Associated Press All-America Second Team after averaging 18.0 points, 2.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.6 steals per game while leading the Sooners to the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight.
By the time that his collegiate career was done, Price racked up 110 victories, setting a Sooner record.
As a junior in 2001-02, he led the Sooners to the NCAA Tournament Final Four after averaging 16.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.7 steals per game. With numbers like that, he was named to the All-Big 12 First Team by the league’s coaches and media and was an All-America Third-Team honoree by The Sporting News.
As a prep star at New Orleans’ St. Augustine High, Price was recognized as one of the nation’s top-50 seniors and led the team to the Class 5A state crown while being named the state tournament’s Most Valuable Player.
Price received his bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies from Oklahoma in 2011 and was named to the Dean’s List in 1999.
PERSONAL
He and his wife, Michel, have a son, Hollis Price II, and a stepson, Kalil Thomas.
