Overton at OCU
2015-16 20-9
2016-17 34-2 NAIA Champions, SAC Tournament & Regular Season Champions
Total: 54-11
Bo Overton brings a wide array of coaching experience into his third 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 2016-17, OCU won its fourth NAIA Division I crown in six years. OCU (34-2) ended the season on a 20-game winning streak, becoming the fifth team in program history to win as many as 34 games. The Stars swept the Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles.
• Garnered the 2016-17 NAIA and SAC coach of the year awards.
• In 2015-16, the Stars posted a 20-9 record, advanced to the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament championship game and the first round of the NAIA Division I Tournament.
• Has coached three all-Americans while at OCU, including 2017 NAIA Division I player of the year Daniela Wallen.
• Has mentored six all-Sooner Athletic Conference performers with the Stars, including Wallen, the two-time SAC player of the year, 2017 SAC defensive player of the year and 2016 newcomer of the year. Also guided the 2017 league newcomer of the year (Daniela Galindo) and 2017 SAC freshman of the year (NaShyla Hammons).
• Served as an assistant coach for the Chinese national team in the 2012 Olympics.
• 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 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.
• 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.
