Tony Harvey joined the UIC men's basketball program prior to the start of the 2017-18 season. He possesses more than 16 years of coaching experience, including four seasons as the head coach at Texas Southern University. He led the Tigers to their first 20-win season in 15 years during the 2010-11 campaign. That year Harvey was named the SWAC Coach of the Year while the team earned an NIT bid.
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Prior to arriving in Houston, Harvey spent time as the associate head coach at Missouri. He helped bring in six recruiting classes that were each ranked in the top 10 nationally, while helping the Tigers to reach the NCAA Tournament four consecutive times between 2000-03. Twice those MU teams advanced to the Sweet 16, and in 2002 the team played in the Elite 8.
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Harvey was named one of the top five recruiting assistants in the country and one of the hardest working assistants three times by insiderhoops.com. In both 2001-02 and 2002-03, Lindy’s Magazine pegged Harvey as prepared for a head coaching position.
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In addition to his tenures at Texas Southern and Missouri, Harvey spent time on collegiate staffs at Eastern Michigan (1996-99), McNeese State (1994-96) and Southern University (1993-94). He began his coaching career in the high school ranks at Benton Harbor High School and Martin Luther King High School.
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Harvey received a bachelor’s degree in Health/Physical Education with a minor in Biology from Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma.
