Logan Quinn enters his second stint as head coach of the Southern Arkansas Mulerider Men’s Basketball program.
Quinn makes his return to Magnolia after having been on staff with the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets' G-League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Gold. While he was an assistant with the Gold, the organization saw two NBA G-League Performers of the Week in Jalen Pickett and Trey Alexander. Alexander went on to be named the G-League Rookie of the Year, as well as being on the All-NBA G-League Third Team and NBA G-League All-Rookie Team. As the Gold's offensive coordinator, Quinn assisted in developing notable players to the NBA, such as Spencer Jones and Jalen Pickett with the Denver Nuggets, and Jahmir Young with the Miami Heat.
Coach Quinn is set to resume his role as the Mulerider Men's Basketball Head Coach, as he served as the program's tenth head coach since 1950 and the sixth head coach in the program's 32 years with the NCAA (2022-23 | 2023-24).
During his two seasons as head coach for the Muleriders, Quinn led the program to a 33-28 record, two Great American Conference Tournament appearances, a GAC Tournament Championship, and a berth in the NCAA Division II National Tournament.
Also, during his tenure, Quinn coached three All-GAC honorees, highlighted by Gregory Hammond Jr., who earned the 2022-23 GAC Newcomer of the Year plaudit, First Team All-GAC recognition in 2022-23, and Second Team All-GAC honors in 2023-24. He also coached 2022-23 All-GAC Honorable Mention LaTreavin Black and 2023-24 All-GAC Second Team member Carel Ray Jr.
In his historic first campaign as head coach, the native of Los Angeles, California, recorded an NCAA Era single-season program record for wins with 22; the most by a first-year Mulerider head coach and the most overall since the 1989-90 season; an NCAA Era single-season program record for conference wins with 15 and the program's highest regular season Great American Conference finish at tied for second. To cap GAC competition in that 2022-23 season, Quinn and his Muleriders claimed the title of Great American Conference Tournament Champions. Nationally, the Muleriders finished in the top 40 in the country in offensive rebounds per game (12.62 | 26th), rebound margin (4.7 | 33rd), three-point attempts per game (25.8 | 39th) and three-pointers made per game (9.3 | 40th).
In his first three years at SAU, Quinn aided the Muleriders as the Associate Head Men's Basketball Coach and helped account for 46 wins, including 35 in Great American Conference play, a GAC Eastern Division Championship, three Great American Conference Tournament appearances with three wins and the program's first-ever appearance in the tournament title game, and the program's first NCAA Tournament berth.
In those three campaigns as the Associate Head Men's Basketball Coach, he helped coach and mentor three All-GAC selections in Devante and Jalen Brooks and the league's 2020-21 Player and Defensive Player of the Year in Aaron Lucas; the program's first All-America honoree in the department's NCAA Era.
A native of Los Angeles, California, Quinn coached for three season as the program's top assistant while serving the 2021-22 campaign as associate head coach under longtime program builder Andy Sharpe. When hired prior to the 2019-20 season, Sharpe remarked that "adding Logan to our staff was a big win for us [Mulerider Men's Basketball]" and since then it has certainly proven so.
In his first three years on the SAU bench, Quinn aided the Muleriders to 46 wins, including 35 in Great American Conference play, a GAC Eastern Division Championship, three Great American Conference Tournament appearances with three wins and the program's first-ever appearance in the tournament title game, and the program's first NCAA Tournament berth.
Much like his predecessor (Coach Andy Sharpe), Quinn's a firm believer that success on the hardwood comes by executing on the defensive end of the floor, specifically on the perimeter, and by controlling the glass. While assisting Sharpe, the Muleriders ranked in the top 45 nationally each year in three-point field goal defense and scoring defense, while owning top 30 marks nationally in rebounding margin in each of his first three seasons as well. Southern Arkansas ranked in the top three of each of those statistics in the GAC each season and since 2019-20, opponents are averaging no more than 68.5 points per game, while shooting under 33% from three-point range.
More so, Quinn's offensive expertise greatly benefited the Muleriders in his three seasons as an assistant. In his first campaign on the SAU bench, the Muleriders owned per game averages of just under 69 points, 10.1 assists, and 5.9 three-point makes. With an emphasis on ball movement and improved perimeter play, Southern Arkansas improved its points per game average to 74.8 ppg in 2021-22 (3
rd GAC), made nearly three more trifectas per game at 8.3 (3
rd GAC) and averaged three more assists per game.
In addition to his duties with the men's basketball program, Quinn has transformed the department's community service initiative "Muleriders in Magnolia." Under Quinn's leadership, 99% of the department's student-athletes have combined to log over 5,400 hours of community service totaling over $171,500 in economic impact since July 1, 2020. To date, twenty-eight local community organizations have benefited from the on-going initiative since the fall of 2020.
Prior to Magnolia, Quinn got his start in collegiate coaching at Tulsa where during his time on staff he helped the Golden Hurricanes to a 37-26 record in his two seasons which included wins over Oklahoma State, Memphis, SMU, Dayton, UCONN, and Kansas State. Quinn assisted in video edits for scouting reports, on-the-floor coaching, and skill development, as well as day-to-day administrative, practice, and game day responsibilities.
Additionally, Quinn is hailed as a veteran player development coach as he was an assistant for and worked alongside Mike Penberthy, former NBA Player Development Coach of the New Orleans Pelicans and Minnesota Timberwolves, former assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, and current Dallas Mavericks assistant coach, in the skill development of NBA players such as Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis, Paul George, Reggie Jackson, Jrue, Justin, and Aaron Holiday, Frank Jackson, Solomon Hill, Kyle Korver, Joakim Noah, Ben McLemore, Jeff Adrien, Devin Harris, PJ Dozier, and Nigel Hayes.
Quinn began his collegiate playing career at Little Rock in 2010-11 and helped the Trojans to a Sun Belt Conference Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament appearance as a walk-on. After transferring to The Master's University to finish out his playing career, Quinn graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and physical education.
