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2024–25 UIC Flames Men's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 UIC Flames men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois Chicago during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Flames, led by first-year head coach Rob Ehsan, played their home games at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, Illinois as members of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The finished the season 17–14, 10–10 in MVC play to finish in a tie for fifth place. As the No. 6 seed in the MVC tournament, they were upset by Valparaiso. Previous season The Flames finished the 2023–24 season 12–21, 4–16 in MVC play, to finish in 11th place. They defeated Southern Illinois before losing to Bradley in the quarterfinals of the MVC tournament. On March 10, 2024, the school announced the firing of head coach Luke Yaklich, ending his four-year tenure at the helm. On April 1, the school announced that Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Ehsan
Robert Hassan Ehsan ( ; born May 3, 1982) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach for the UIC Flames. From 2016–2020, he was the head men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). A native of Sacramento, California, Ehsan was a four-year player at UC Davis. He was a team captain as a senior in 2005. Ehsan served as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland from 2008 to 2011. When Gary Williams resigned, Ehsan was named interim head coach. He spent a season as an assistant at Virginia Tech before becoming an assistant coach at UAB in 2012. Ehsan was hired as UAB head coach on April 4, 2016, replacing Jerod Haase Jerod Albert Haase (born April 1, 1974) is an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach for Stanford Cardinal men's team of the Pac-12 Conference from 2016 to 2024. Haase played college basketball at the University of Californi .... Ehsan took over a team that went 26–7 the year be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |