Overton's year-by-year record
Year, school W-L Pct.
2015-16, Oklahoma City …...…................. 20-9 .690
2016-17, Oklahoma City …....................... 34-2 .944 NAIA DIVISION I CHAMPION, SAC regular-season
champion, SAC Tournament champion
2017-18, Oklahoma City …...…................. 28-6 .824 SAC regular-season champion, SAC Tournament champion
2018-19, Oklahoma City …...…................. 33-5 .868 NAIA Division I runner-up, SAC regular-season champion
Totals 115-23 .833
• In 2017-18, Oklahoma City took the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament championship, regular-season SAC co-championship and advanced to the NAIA Division I Tournament while going 28-6. The Stars reached the NAIA Tournament for the 21st consecutive year and for the 24th time overall. OCU won or shared the league regular-season crown for the third year in a row, eighth time in nine years and 18th overall time.
• 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 SAC regular-season and tournament titles.
• 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 four all-Americans while at OCU, including 2017 NAIA Division I player of the year Daniela Wallen and 2018 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association NAIA player of the year Daniela Galindo.
• Has mentored nine 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, and Galindo, 2018 SAC player of the year and 2017 newcomer of the year. Also guided the 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.
