Wes Flanigan

Wes Flanigan is an American college basketball coach and current assistant coach for the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team. He is the former head coach for the Little Rock Trojans men's basketball team.^[1][2]

Wes Flanigan

Flanigan with Auburn in 2019
Current position
Title	Assistant coach
Team	Ole Miss
Conference	SEC
Biographical details
Born	(1974-04-19) April 19, 1974 (age 49) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Playing career
1993–1997	Auburn
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000–2004	NW Mississippi CC (asst.)
2004–2008	Little Rock (asst.)
2008–2010	UAB (asst.)
2010–2012	Nebraska (asst.)
2012–2015	Mississippi State (asst.)
2015–2016	Little Rock (asst.)
2016–2018	Little Rock
2018–2023	Auburn (asst.)
2023–present	Ole Miss (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall	23–42 (.354)

Playing career

Flanigan played at Auburn under Cliff Ellis, where he was an all-SEC selection his junior season. Flanigan finished his career second all-time in assists with 573, and scored 1,228 points, good for 22nd all-time.^[3]

Coaching career

Flanigan began his coaching career with a four-year stint at Northwest Mississippi Community College as an assistant coach, before joining Little Rock as an assistant for his first go-around. He followed that up with assistant coaching stops at UAB, Nebraska, and Mississippi St. before returning to Little Rock as an assistant under Chris Beard, where he was part of the Trojans' 2016 NCAA tournament team which defeated Purdue in the first round.^[4][5]

When Beard left for the head coaching position at Texas Tech, Flanigan was elevated to the head coaching position.

In March 2018, the Trojans fired Flanigan after his second season with the team.^[6] A month later, on April 16, he was hired by Bruce Pearl to be assistant at his alma mater, Auburn.^[7]

Head coaching record

NCAA Division I

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Little Rock Trojans (Sun Belt) (2016–2018)
2016–17	Little Rock	15–17	6–12	10th
2017–18	Little Rock	7–25	4–14	12th
Little Rock:		22–42 (.344)	10–26 (.278)
Total:		22–42 (.344)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

References

1. "Little Rock Athletics - 2016-17 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff".
2. "Wes Flanigan Coaching Record - College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com".
3. "Wes Flanigan College Stats - College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com".
4. "Wes Flanigan Bio - UAB Athletics Official Athletic Site".
5. "Wes Flanigan bio".
6. "Arkansas-Little Rock fires Wes Flanigan after team loses school-record 25 games". ESPN.com. Associated Press. March 9, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
7. Crepea, James (April 16, 2018). "Former Auburn guard Wes Flanigan hired to Bruce Pearl's coaching staff". AL.com. Retrieved April 16, 2018.