Men's Basketball Head Coach, Jeff Guiot

Jeff Guiot enters his 4th season as SBU's head coach with hopes that the
2007-08 season will take on the shape of SBU's 'breakout' season of
2005-06. That year, Guiot orchestrated one of the biggest turnarounds in
Division II basketball.
Guiot pushed his 2005-06 team to new heights. That year, he led
the Bearcats to a 14-0 start, an achievement no other team had received
in the program's history, helping him earn D2 Bulletin Coach of the
Month for the month of January. Guiot took Bearcat basketball to an
entirely new level of success, leading the Bearcats to their first MIAA regular season and tournament championships since 1991. SBU finished the 2005-06 campaign with a 27-5 record and went 12-4 in the conference. At the end of the season, SBU was ranked #6 in the nation and was the #1 seed in the South Central Region. As the #1 seed in the region, SBU was rewarded with hosting the NCAA Division II South Central Regional
Tournament for the first time in the program's history. It was also only the third time in school history for the Bearcats to be in the NCAA Tournament. Over his 13 seasons as a collegiate coach, Guiot has had eight 20-win seasons. He has led every team he has coached to a winning
record. He has won a conference title six out of his twelve years
coaching. Guiot spent three seasons at NCAA Division II Bemidji State
University before coming to SBU. At BSU, he turned around a struggling program in the NSIC. In his three years, he produced a 54-33 record, the most successful three-year run in school history, and won the NSIC (Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) regular season title in his
final season. Guiot was also NSIC Coach of the Year in 2003-04.
In his final year at BSU, Guiot had his most talented and
recognized team at Bemidji State. They had their first 20-win season in the history of the University and won the NSIC regular season title, a first since 1966-67. Senior Charles Hanks was named to the North Central Region First Team and was the NSIC Player of the Year. Hanks' All-Region
award was the first All-Region award given to a Beaver in the history of the program. BSU also had the NSIC Newcomer of the Year in James Roberson. In the NSIC, Hanks, Roberson, and Adam Daley were named to the All-NSIC First-Team. The Beavers also led the nation in three-pointers per game at 11.7 and finished with the sixth-highest total of three-pointers made in NCAA Divsion II at 338. In that season, 24 records were broken from Bemidji State, the NSIC, and the NSIC Tournament combined. Guiot helped to turn around a struggling BSU program in three

seasons. In his first season at Bemidji (2001-02), he guided the Beavers
to a 17-11 record and their first NSIC tournament appearance. The 13
NSIC wins were a school best which put them at a third seed in the NSIC
Tournament. The following season (2002-03) he led BSU to 17 wins again
and to their first-ever NSIC Tournament semifinal game.
Prior to taking the job at Bemidji State, Guiot spent one season
assisting at NCAA Division I Southern Utah University. In that one
season, SUU had their best season ever in the history of the men's
basketball program as they won the regular season and tournament
championships in the Mid-Continent Conference. Because of their success,
SUU was awarded their first ever bid to the NCAA Tournament.
From 1993 through 2000, Guiot served as the head coach at Neosho
County Community College in Chanute, Kansas. In those seven years, he
had three all-Americans and six Academic all-Americans and posted the
2000 NJCAA National Academic Team of the Year. He never had a losing
season and won four conference championships while making seven
consecutive playoff appearances. With a 164-60 record, he posted the
highest winning percentage ever at NCCC. He also had the most
consecutive 20-win seasons, most wins at the school, and most postseason wins.

Guiot got his start at the high school level, where he was the head coach at two different high schools. He had a 48-18 record at Inman (KS) High School and in one season at Schell City (MO) High School he had a 15-8 record. He was also an assistant coach at Chanute (KS) High School where they were 20-4. Receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Pittsburg State (KS), Guiot was an all-American and all-conference player for the Gorillas. He led the nation in free throw percentage in the 1986 season. Before transferring to PSU, he played three years of basketball at the University of Kansas. In his final year at KU, he was coached by Larry Brown. At Chanute (KS) High School, he was a Converse all-American, a McDonald's all-American honorable mention pick, and the Most Valuable Player in the Kansas Basketball Classic. Guiot is married to the former Tina Clark, who is a 1988
graduate of Southwest Baptist University. They have three children: Crystal, Preston, and Payton.