Bo Overton brings a wide array of coaching experience into his second season as Oklahoma City University women’s basketball head coach.
Overton returned to his home state after spending the past few years coaching for teams abroad.
• In 2015-16, guided the Stars to a 20-9 record, Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament championship game appearance and the first round of the NAIA Division I Tournament. Daniela Wallen became the SAC player of the year and a first-team WBCA all-American.
• Served as an assistant coach for the Chinese national team in the 2012 Olympics.
• Overton has head-coaching experience on the college and professional levels, leading Dynamo Kursk in Russia, Guangdong and Liaoning of the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association, the Chicago Sky of the WNBA in 2007 and Missouri-Kansas City from 2004-06. He also served as assistant for the Bahama national team.
• From 1998-2004, served as assistant for Oklahoma, which went 143-54 with five NCAA Tournament bids, three NCAA Sweet 16 appearances, the 2002 NCAA runner-up finish and Final Four berth, a 1999 WNIT appearance, three Big 12 regular-season titles and two conference tournament crowns. The Sooners had five all-Americans and three Big 12 players of the year during that time.
• Overton was head men’s basketball coach and athletic director at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Okla. Coaching men, Overton has been an assistant at Oral Roberts, Texas State and Louisiana Tech.
• Overton became a 1983 draft pick of the Phoenix Suns. Played and coached professionally for Pensacola of the Continental Basketball Association.
• Set Oklahoma records for minutes, assists and free-throw percentage playing from 1979-83 for Billy Tubbs and Dave Bliss.
• Became the 1979 Oklahoma Coaches Association, The Oklahoman and Tulsa World high school player of the year playing for Ada, Okla. He was also the Jim Thorpe Award winner presented to the top athlete in each sport at the Oklahoma state high school championships. A four-year letter winner, Overton earned McDonald’s all-American honors.
