Chris Lee Mack is an American college basketball coach, who is the head coach at the University of Louisville, and the former head coach at Xavier University.
Chris Mack: Coaching record| Coaching career| Salary| Wife
Coaching record:
| Playing career | |
|---|---|
| 1988–1990 | Evansville |
| 1991–1993 | Xavier |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1993–1994 | McAuley HS (JV) |
| 1995–1999 | Mount Notre Dame HS |
| 1999–2001 | Xavier (assistant) |
| 2001–2004 | Wake Forest (assistant) |
| 2004–2009 | Xavier (assistant) |
| 2009–2018 | Xavier |
| 2018–present | Louisville |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 272–125 (.685) |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 11–9 (.550) |
Mack eventually would lead his 2018 Xavier squad to the school’s first No. 1 seed, becoming the 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region. The team would eventually bow out of the tournament in the second round to Florida State, losing 75-70 to the West Region’s 9-seed. Xavier finished the 2018 season with a 29-6 record.
Coaching Career:
Mack started his coaching career as junior varsity head coach at McAuley High School, an all-girls high school in Cincinnati, in 1993.
In 1995, Mack was named head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading, Ohio, where he received the 1996 Coach of the Year award from the Cincinnati Post.
Salary:
| Rank | Person | Annual salary: 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mack, Christopher | $4.25 million |
| 2 | Satterfield, Scott | $3.25 million |
| 3 | Walz, Jeff | $1.53 million |
His base salary in 2021 was $1.53 million, according to Louisville Business First research, putting him behind only men’s basketball coach Chris Mack and football coach Scott Satterfield in terms of highest-paid UofL employees.
Wife:
Christi Mack
On December 8, 2021, Louisville, KY – University of Louisville Men’s Basketball Head Coach Chris Mack and his wife, Christi, opened their first Food for Thought Pantry at Layne Elementary School this past Wednesday through their Mack Family Foundation.
