Chris Kreider

Biography

Chris Kreider begins his second stint on South Main and his sixth season working with Head Coach Rob Lanier, including the last two years as an assistant coach at SMU and three seasons at Georgia State. This past season at SMU, he helped lead the Mustangs to a 20-13 record, including an 11-7 in the American Athletic Conference and berth in the NIT. SMU saw a nine-game improvement in its overall record and more than doubled its win total in the conference this past season. Under his tutelage, SMU led the AAC in field goal percentage defense (.413), assists (15.7), rebounding margin (+5.1), offensive rebounds (14.5), and assist/turnover ratio (1.4), ranked second in rebounding (39.8), steals (8.4), and scoring margin (+8.0), and third in three-point field goal percentage defense (.317) and blocks (4.8). Following his first season on the Hilltop, which included a runner-up finish at the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, Kreider helped bring in a transfer class ranked as high as No. 42 nationally and No. 2 in The American. In August of 2023, the Mustangs went on a 10-day trip to Spain, going 3-0 with games in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. Kreider was selected to the Top Connect Basketball Symposium in 2022 and 2023. The networking and leadership event that includes athletics directors and some of the top assistant coaches in the country. He was also invited to the 2023 Jay Bilas Coaches Leadership Program, which is intended to help experienced Division I assistant coaches