University of Texas Arlington Athletics

Boasting more than 100 career wins and four NCAA Division II South Central Regional Tournament appearances as a collegiate head coach at Angelo State over the prior seven years, Cinco Boone joined the UT Arlington men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach for the 2022-23 season. Boone's first official day with the Mavericks was April 11, 2022.

UTA went 11-21 overall and 6-12 in the Western Athletic Conference in 2022-23, and went through a head coaching change with six regular-season games remaining. Despite that, the Mavs finished the year ranked 18th nationally in offensive rebounds per game at 12.7. Individually, Shemar Wilson was 9th in the country with 3.6 offensive boards per contest.

Chendall Weaver was named Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year – UTA’s first league Freshman of the Year since Roge’r Guignard claimed the Southland Conference’s award in 2007. Weaver averaged 9.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2 assists over 32 games, starting the last 25 contests of the year.
 
The Mavs had two NET Quad 2 victories to tie a single-year program record. UTA also had two road wins over NCAA Tournament teams from 2021-22: 66-55 at New Mexico State on Jan. 14 and 68-63 at San Francisco on Dec. 19.
 
During his time at Angelo State, Boone amassed an overall record of 129-67, qualified for the Lone Star Conference Tournament each of his seven years at the helm and made the aforementioned four trips to the D-II NCAA Regional Tournament, reaching the 2016 Final.
 
Boone won at least 20 games four times as ASU’s head coach, averaging better than 18 wins per season, including the COVID-19 impacted 2020-21 campaign in which the Rams played just a conference schedule and 18 total games.
 
Boone guided the Rams to 70 Lone Star Conference victories – an average of 10 per year – during his time in charge. With the league success, Boone developed an incredible 20 all-conference players in the past seven years.
 
Before becoming ASU’s head coach, Boone helped guide the Rams to a 47-15 record during two seasons as the associate head coach from 2013-15. He became the sixth head coach in ASU’s history after now-Texas coach Chris Beard left for the same position at Little Rock.
 
Boone arrived at ASU with prior coaching experience at the D-I, D-II, junior college and high school levels, including working as Beard’s assistant coach at McMurry during the 2012-13 season which followed two years as an assistant at Stephen F. Austin. He also had prior head-coaching experience at Jacksonville College and was a graduate assistant at Hardin-Simmons and an assistant at Portales High School (New Mexico).
 
A Portales, N.M., native, Boone earned his bachelor’s degree from Eastern New Mexico in 2002 in Mathematics after graduating from Portales HS. His first coaching position came at his high school alma mater where he was the assistant varsity coach from 2003-06. Boone began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at Hardin-Simmons during the 2006-07 season, earning his graduate degree in Sports Recreation and Management in 2008.