Jim Harrick was the head men’s basketball coach at UCLA, Pepperdine University, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia over a combined total of 23 seasons. During the 1994–1995 season, he led UCLA to the school's eleventh national championship, its first since the 1974–75 season.

Harrick's coaching career began at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California where he served as an assistant coach from 1964 to 1969 and as head coach from 1970 to 1973. He was then hired as an assistant coach at Utah State University from 1974 to 1977. Next, Harrick spent two seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA from 1978 to 1979. His first collegiate head coaching job was at Pepperdine University in 1979, where he led the school to four NCAA tournament appearances and was named conference coach of the year four times.

In 1988, he returned to UCLA as head coach where won the 1995 National Championship with the Bruins. His time at UCLA was followed by head coaching stints at Rhode Island from 1997-1999 and Georgia from 199-2003.

Harrick returned to the bench as an assistant coach at California State University, Northridge from 2018-2021.

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