Alan Major

Alan Major

Major in 2009 with Ohio State.
Personal information
Born	(1968-06-21) June 21, 1968 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Position	Head coach
Coaching career	1992–present
Career history
As coach:
1992–1995	Cal Lutheran (assistant)
1995–1998	Pacific (assistant)
1998–1999	Southern Illinois (assistant)
1999–2000	Pacific (assistant)
2001–2004	Xavier (assistant)
2004–2010	Ohio State (assistant)
2010–2015	Charlotte
2021	Patriots
2021	Nigeria (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As assistant coach: 3× Big Ten regular season (2006–2007, 2010) 2× Big Ten tournament (2007, 2010) 2× Atlantic 10 tournament (2002, 2004) 2× Atlantic 10 regular season (2002–2003) Big West tournament (1997) 2× Big West regular season (1997–1998) SCIAC playoffs (1994) 2× SCIAC regular season (1993–1994)

Biographical details
Alma mater	Purdue ('92)
Head coaching record
Overall	67–70
Tournaments	0–1 (NIT)

Alan M. Major (born June 21, 1968) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of Patriots BBC of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). He was the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2010 to 2015. Before being named coach of the Charlotte 49ers, Major spent nine years working with Thad Matta at Ohio State and Xavier universities. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he is a 1992 graduate of Purdue. Major took an indefinite medical leave of absence due to multiple health issues in January 2015, and was replaced on an interim basis by his associate head coach, Ryan Odom. As of mid-2016, Major has a clean bill of health. He returned to the sidelines in 2016 as Director of Player Development back at Ohio State from 2016-2017. During his time away from coaching, Major traveled the U.S. to visit dozens of successful College and NBA teams. He also assisted several overseas tour teams to China, Israel and the Philippines.

Major served as a student manager under Gene Keady during his undergraduate tenure at Purdue. After graduating in 1992, Major became an assistant coach at Cal Lutheran, a Div. III school, and then spent three years working under all-time Big West Conference wins leader Bob Thomason at University of the Pacific. He spent one season, 1998–1999, on the staff of fellow Purdue alumnus Bruce Weber before returning to Pacific. In 2001, he became an assistant coach at Xavier under Thad Matta. He followed Matta to Ohio State in 2004 where he worked as an assistant coach for six seasons. On April 12, 2010, he was named the head coach of Charlotte.

Major coached two No. 1 overall picks in the NBA draft during his time as an assistant. At Pacific, Major worked with Michael Olowokandi who was the top pick in the 1998 draft. At Ohio State, Major was the big men coach when Greg Oden came to the school. Oden was the number one pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.

Following the conclusion of the 2014–15 season it was announced that Major would step down as head coach in order to fully recover and re-energize himself. His record as 49ers head coach was 67 wins and 70 losses with the program attaining an overall record during his tenure of 75–81. Significant milestones included winning the 2012 Great Alaska Shootout and 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-off tournaments and victories over #7 ranked Tenessesse, #10 ranked Butler, and previous National Championship runners-up, #14 ranked Michigan.

In April 2021, Major signed as head coach of the Rwandan club Patriots BBC to coach the team in the first-ever Basketball Africa League (BAL) season. He was also an assistant coach on the Nigeria national basketball team during AfroBasket 2021.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Charlotte (Atlantic 10 Conference) (2010–2013)
2010–11	Charlotte	10–20	2–14	13th
2011–12	Charlotte	13–17	5–11	11th
2012–13	Charlotte	21–12	8–8	T-8th	NIT First Round
Charlotte (Conference USA) (2013–2015)
2013–14	Charlotte	17–14	7–9	T-5th
2014–15*	Charlotte*	6–7*	0–1*	11th*
Charlotte:		67–70	22–43
Total:		67–70
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

*Alan Major took an indefinite leave of absence due to medical reasons on January 6, 2015. Charlotte's record at the time was 6–7 (0–1 C-USA).