Jeremy Cox returned for his second stint in the Sun City under head coach Joe Golding in May 2025.
Cox, who was a member of Golding’s staff his first three years in El Paso, spent last season at Oklahoma State. The Cowboys piled up 17 wins and advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 NIT.
Cox has more than 30 years of coaching experience, including nine seasons as a head coach (224-66). He won the 2006 NJCAA national championship and was the NJCAA National Coach of the Year as well while leading Arkansas Fort-Smith. He was recently inducted into the school’s hall of fame.
The Miners posted a 20-win season in 2021-22 while securing their first postseason victory since 2009. In 2023-24 UTEP made a run to the CUSA Championship contest for the first time since 2011.
Cox was an associate head coach at SFA from 2016-21, helping it record 119 wins and compete in the 2018 NCAA Tournament (lost to eventual runner-up, Texas Tech). The Lumberjacks were 28-3 in 2019-20, including winning at No. 1 Duke. He was named the 2017 TABC Division I Assistant Coach of the Year.
He was with former UTEP head coach Doc Sadler at Southern Miss (2014-16). Cox led College of Southern Idaho to the conference crown and second place in the Region 18 Tournament in 2013-14. He was the region Coach of the Year.
He served under another former UTEP basketball coach as he was on Billy Gillispie’s staff at Texas Tech during the 2012-13 campaign. Prior to his time in Lubbock, Cox was on Sadler’s staff at Nebraska during the 2011-12 season.
Cox spent two seasons (2009-11) as an assistant coach at South Florida. In his first year, the Bulls posted the program’s third 20-win season and made their first postseason appearance (NIT) since 2002.
Prior to working with Gillispie at Texas Tech, Cox was on his staff at Kentucky from 2007-2009. The Wildcats advanced to the 2008 NCAA Tournament and the 2009 NIT. Under Gillispie in 2006-07 at Texas A&M, the No. 3 seed Aggies defeated No. 14 Penn and No. 6 Louisville to punch their ticket to the Sweet 16.
Cox won 20+ games in all three years as head coach at Arkansas-Fort Smith (85-15 record), including defeating Monroe College (N.Y.), 73-61, to claim the 2006 NJCAA National Championship. He was the NJCAA National Coach of the Year and District II Coach of the Year.
Cox had the best winning percentage in school history (93-36, 72 percent) in four seasons at Garden City Community College (1998-02).
Cox’s first head coaching position came at North Dakota State College of Science during the 1997-98 campaign. NDSCS was crowned the 1998 NJCAA Region XIII Champions, while Cox was named the Region XIII Coach of the Year.
Cox was also an assistant coach at UTSA from 1993-97. Prior to that, he was an assistant at Paris College (Texas) during the 1992-93 season. Cox broke into the college basketball coaching ranks at Wyoming in 1991-92 as a graduate assistant under head coach Benny Dees.
Cox graduated cum laude in 1991 from Mesa State College (Colo.) and received his master’s degree in sports management from the United State Sports Academy (Ala.) in 1999.
He and his wife, Cindy, have two children -- Austin and Kaili.
