Ray McCallum - Men's Basketball Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Ray McCallum

Title:
Assistant Coach

Ray McCallum returned to his home roots in the state of Indiana and begins his second year as an assistant coach on the Hoosiers' staff. The Ball State graduate has more than 20 years of coaching experience, including two stints as a head coach at the Division I level. Additionally, McCallum is in his fourth year alongside Kelvin Sampson, after spending two years as an assistant coach at Oklahoma.

Alongside Sampson, McCallum has helped IU and OU to a combined 66-28 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances and has helped land top-10 recruiting classes at both schools. Prior to going to OU, McCallum was the head coach at Houston from 2000-04.

In 2001-02, he led the Cougars to an 18-15 mark and a berth in the NIT, Houston's first postseason tournament appearance since the 1992-93 season. Houston finished 9-7 in Conference USA's National Division that year, and advanced to the league's tournament semifinal for the first time.

During his stay in UH, McCallum played an integral role in the development of Andre Owens, who is currently with the Indiana Pacers. Overall, he has coached eight NBA players during their collegiate career.

McCallum made his head coaching debut at Ball State, where the Cardinals posted a 126-76 record from 1993-00. McCallum directed Ball State to two NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT berth and became the first coach in Ball State history to post seven consecutive winning seasons.

In 1999-2000, McCallum directed the Cardinals to a 22-9 record and the Mid-American Conference's (MAC) Western Division championship. Ball State captured the MAC Tournament title that year to earn an automatic NCAA Tournament bid. When he left BSU, his .624 winning percentage rated as fourth-best in the 53-year history of the MAC.

During his head coaching career at Ball State, McCallum recruited and coached Bonzi Wells, who has had a long NBA career. McCallum briefly joined the coaching staff at Michigan in 1993 before accepting the Ball State head coaching job.

McCallum started his full-time coaching career as an assistant at Wisconsin in 1984. The Badgers had won only 63 games the six seasons before McCallum joined the program. He helped reverse the trend when the Badgers were selected to play in the 1989 NIT – Wisconsin's first postseason tournament showing since the 1947 NCAA Tournament.

One of the most illustrious players in Ball State history, McCallum graduated as the MAC's all-time scoring leader and became the first BSU athlete to have his jersey retired in any sport. McCallum led his team in scoring all four years. In 1979-80, he garnered MAC Freshman of the Year recognition and earned second-team all-conference honors. He picked up All-MAC First Team and MAC All-Tournament Team accolades in each of the 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons, and was tabbed the 1981 MAC Tournament MVP and the 1982-83 MAC Player of the Year.

McCallum also earned the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's most outstanding collegiate senior 6-feet or under in 1983. Later that year, he was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Draft.

Born in West Memphis, Ark., and raised in Muncie, Ind., McCallum won Indiana state titles at Muncie Central High School in 1978 and '79 before earning his Ball State degree in industrial technology, and his wife, Wendy, are the parents of a daughter, Brittany, and a son, Ray Michael.