Kyle Smith (basketball)

In his final season at Columbia, he led the team to a CIT Championship over UC Irvine.

His coaching style has been dubbed “Nerdball”, which is a system that utilizes analytics to track and make decisions on many aspects about the team.

[1] Smith was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised on the Fort Bliss Army base.

While at Saint Mary's, he played a role in building the Gaels program into a perennial contender in the West Coast Conference.

Kyle Smith was named as the head coach of University of San Francisco, on March 30, 2016.

At the conclusion of the 2018–2019 season, Smith left USF to take the head coaching job at Washington State.

On March 27, 2019, Smith was named as the 19th head coach of Washington State, agreeing to a six-year contract worth $1.4 million annually.

The Cougars followed up their regular season success with a win in the Pac-12 tournament before losing to eventual runner-up UCLA.

Two days after their loss to Iowa State, Smith was named the head coach at Stanford.