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Chris Mack, who is the 17th head coach in program history. He was announced as head coach on April 15. He succeeds Sean Miller, who recently took over as Arizona's head coach. Mack spent the past five seasons as an assistant on Miller's staff here at Xavier. Mack has logged seven years on the basketball staff at Xavier, including five years under Miller and two under Prosser, helping XU make five NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT. In 2007, Mack was named to the Rivals.com "Top 25 Assistant Coaches" list. The site referred to Mack as a "solid recruiter and an excellent teacher." The College Bound Hoops 2008 rankings (recruitingrumors.com) ranked Mack 19th in the nation among assistant coaches. He started his coaching career as the head coach at Mount Notre Dame from 1995-1999 and was named the 1996 Cincinnati Post Coach of the Year.
Mack was the 1987-88 Cincinnati Post Metro Player of the Year and Greater Cincinnati League Player of the Year at St. Xavier High School after averaging 25.0 points, 11.0 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 3.0 steals as a senior. He scored 35 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and had four blocks to lead the Bombers past Lexington (Ky.) Henry Clay in the Blue Chip City Basketball Invitational. He also played in the Ohio All-Star Game and the Ohio-Michigan all-star series. He played at Xavier and was a two-time team captain under coach Pete Gillan.
Mack was born December 30, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife, Christi, live in Kentucky with their two-year-old daughter, Hailee, and their three-year-old daughter Lainee. Christi, the Director of Basketball Operations for Xavier University's women's basketball team from 2001-03, is now the head girls basketball coach at Colerain High School in Cincinnati.