Terrence Rencher Position: Assistant Coach Experience: First Year

Former University of Texas standout Terrence Rencher was named an assistant basketball coach at The University of Tulsa in May 2011.

Rencher spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach at Texas State University, helping the Bobcats compile 31 overall wins and 19 victories in the Southland Conference. Texas State posted a 16-16 record last season along with a 10-6 league mark. In the 2009-10 campaign, TSU registered an overall 15-16 mark and 9-7 conference record.

Rencher went to Texas State after serving as a graduate assistant coach at Saint Louis under Rick Majerus in the 2008-09 season.

Before that, he was the head coach and basketball program director for the boy's varsity team at Regents School of Austin in 2007-08. In addition to his coaching duties, Rencher served as an academic mentor for the University of Texas men's basketball team from 2006-08.

Rencher is the all-time scoring leader at Texas, where he scored 2,306 points in his career, and ranks sixth among the school's career assists leaders with 440. A four-year starter at Texas, Rencher helped lead the Longhorns to three NCAA Tournament appearances, three Southwest Conference championships, one SWC Tournament title and a combined record of 83-44 from 1992-95. As a freshman, Rencher was named Dick Vitale's National Freshman of the Year and the Southwest Conference Freshman of the Year in 1992. He completed his collegiate career as an all-conference selection as a senior in 1995.

Following his collegiate career, Rencher was the 32nd overall selection in the 1995 NBA Draft by the Washington Bullets and played one season in the NBA with Miami and Phoenix. In 36 games, he averaged 2.9 points and 1.1 rebounds.

Rencher also played in the CBA for one year before playing nine years overseas in Israel, Croatia, Italy, Greece and Germany before beginning his coaching career. While playing for Telekom Baskets Bonn in Germany from 2001-03, Rencher averaged 15.0 and 16.1 points in subsequent years.

A native of The Bronx, New York, Rencher played his prep basketball at St. Raymond High School in New York City. He was named New York's Mr. Basketball as a high school senior in 1991.

Rencher earned his bachelor's degree in Education with an emphasis in Youth and Community Studies from the University of Texas. He and his wife, Faye, have two daughters Siena and Savannah.