Alan Major

Alan Major

Major in 2009 with Ohio State.
Biographical details
Born	(1968-06-21) June 21, 1968 Indianapolis, Indiana
Head coaching record
Overall	67–70
Tournaments	0–1 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
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)

Alan M. Major (born June 21, 1968) is an American basketball coach who was most recently 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.

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.

Having taken a medical leave of absence following the 2013-2014 season, Coach Major would take another such leave during the second half of the 2014-2015 season. Assistant Head Coach Ryan Odom would coach the team for the remainder of the season. Following the conclusion of the 2014-2015 season it was announced that Major would step down as head coach. His record as 49ers head coach was 67 wins to 70 loses with the program attaining an overall record during his tenure of 75 to 81. Significant milestones included winning the 2012 Great Alaska Shootout and 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-off tournaments and victories over the #7 ranked Tenessesse, #10 ranked Butler, and previous National Championship runner-ups, #14 ranked Michigan.

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–present)
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).