Men's Basketball
Rupp, Kerry
Kerry Rupp
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- Kerry.Rupp@oregonstate.edu
- Phone:
- 541-737-2076
.Kerry Rupp enters his eighth year with the Oregon State men’s basketball program as the associate head coach.
Rupp followed Wayne Tinkle from Montana to Oregon State and they have found success during their time in Corvallis with several milestones, records and highlights.
In 2020-21, Oregon State won the Pac-12 Conference Tournament championship for the first time in program history and won three games in the NCAA Tournament to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1982. The Beavers had five wins over Top 25 teams, including the program’s first true road win over a ranked team since 1985 and the first neutral-site win over a ranked team since 1992.
Oregon State finished the season with a 20-13 record, marking just the second time since 1990 the program reached 20 wins. The Beavers were No. 20 in the final coaches poll; it’s the first time they were ranked in any poll since March 13, 1990 when they were No. 22 by the Associated Press.
In 2019-20, he helped Oregon State to wins over two Top 25 teams (82-65 vs. No. 24 Arizona; 63-53 vs. No. 14 Oregon), the program’s first season sweep over Stanford since 2008-09 and a 10-2 start to the season, the school’s best since 1984-85. The Beavers had a three-game winning streak, including a 71-69 win over Utah in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament, before the campaign was unexpectedly ended due to COVID-19.
In 2018-19, he helped lead the Beavers to their best conference record (10-8) and best conference finish (tie for fourth) since 1990. Oregon State also had its first conference road sweep (at Colorado, at Utah) since 2009, and swept the season series from rival Oregon and USC.
In 2016-17, he helped Oregon State garner its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1990 after winning 19 games, including nine in the competitive Pac-12 Conference.
In 2015-16, he helped lead a team that was picked to finish last in the Pac-12 to a 17-14 record, including a program-record 15 home wins highlighted by an upset over No. 7 Arizona.
The veteran Rupp has instilled a tenacious defensive philosophy that has helped the Beavers set school records for scoring defense, field-goal percentage defense and 3-point field goal percentage defense, while leading the Pac-12 in steals and turnover margin.
Rupp, who was hired at Oregon State on June 4, 2014, has nearly 20 years of coaching experience at six universities and has been a part of six NCAA Tournament teams.
He joined the collegiate ranks in 2000 after a successful 24-year high school coaching career. From 2000-04 he was an assistant coach at Utah and also served as the interim head coach there for part of the 2004 season. He was the associate head coach at Indiana from 2004-06 and an assistant coach at UAB in 2006-07. Rupp was the head coach at Louisiana Tech from 2007-11, the director of basketball operations at Hawai’i in 2011-12 and an assistant coach under Tinkle at Montana from 2012-14.
Rupp joined Tinkle’s staff at Montana in 2012 and helped the Grizzlies set a Big Sky Conference record with 19 league wins and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four years. He spent one season as the director of basketball operations at the University of Hawai’i in 2011-12 before moving to Missoula.
A native of Magna, Utah, Rupp got his first college head coaching job in 2007 when he was hired to turn around the Louisiana Tech Bulldog men’s basketball program. During his four years there, he led the team to new heights highlighted by a 24-11 record during the 2009-10 season when the team received votes in the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 19 years and advanced to the second round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
Rupp was named the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches and Louisiana Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year in 2010 after leading the Bulldogs to their best record since 1985.
Rupp posted an overall record of 66-77 at Louisiana Tech, including a nine-win improvement between his first and second seasons (6-24 to 15-18) and another nine-win improvement during that historic 2009-10 campaign (24-11). The team went 12-20 in his final year with the Bulldogs.
He was the associate head coach under Mike Davis at Indiana University for two seasons when the Hoosiers made the NIT in 2005 and the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Rupp followed Davis to UAB where he was an assistant coach for one season in 2006-07.
From 2000-04, he coached under Rick Majerus at the University of Utah and helped the Utes amass a record of 70-26 in four years, while receiving bids to the NCAA Tournament three times and the NIT once. Rupp was responsible for the recruiting of Andrew Bogut, who would become the Naismith College Player of the Year and the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft.
Rupp served as the interim head coach at Utah for part of the 2004 season, accumulating a 10-4 record and winning the Mountain West Tournament Championship for the first time in school history.
Prior to joining the collegiate ranks, Rupp enjoyed a 24-year career in the high school circuit, beginning at Unitah (1978-79) and Murray (1979-82) high schools as the head boys’ basketball coach. He served as an assistant coach (1986-90) and head coach (1990-2000) at Salt Lake’s City East High School where he led the Leopards to four region titles and two state title game appearances. Rupp also served as the school’s athletic director from 1992-2000.
He was named the Coach of the Year by the Utah High School Activities Association in 1999.
Rupp was an All-American in basketball and an all-state performer in football and hoops at Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah where he graduated in 1972. He played basketball for two years at Utah State before transferring to Southern Utah where he was named the Thunderbirds’ MVP and earned all-district and all-conference honors as a senior in 1977.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University in physical education in 1977.
Rupp was born on Feb. 24, 1954 in Magna, Utah. He and his wife, Lori, have five daughters (Alie, Lindsey, Shelby, Billie and Randie) and seven grandchildren.
Rupp followed Wayne Tinkle from Montana to Oregon State and they have found success during their time in Corvallis with several milestones, records and highlights.
In 2020-21, Oregon State won the Pac-12 Conference Tournament championship for the first time in program history and won three games in the NCAA Tournament to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1982. The Beavers had five wins over Top 25 teams, including the program’s first true road win over a ranked team since 1985 and the first neutral-site win over a ranked team since 1992.
Oregon State finished the season with a 20-13 record, marking just the second time since 1990 the program reached 20 wins. The Beavers were No. 20 in the final coaches poll; it’s the first time they were ranked in any poll since March 13, 1990 when they were No. 22 by the Associated Press.
In 2019-20, he helped Oregon State to wins over two Top 25 teams (82-65 vs. No. 24 Arizona; 63-53 vs. No. 14 Oregon), the program’s first season sweep over Stanford since 2008-09 and a 10-2 start to the season, the school’s best since 1984-85. The Beavers had a three-game winning streak, including a 71-69 win over Utah in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament, before the campaign was unexpectedly ended due to COVID-19.
In 2018-19, he helped lead the Beavers to their best conference record (10-8) and best conference finish (tie for fourth) since 1990. Oregon State also had its first conference road sweep (at Colorado, at Utah) since 2009, and swept the season series from rival Oregon and USC.
In 2016-17, he helped Oregon State garner its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1990 after winning 19 games, including nine in the competitive Pac-12 Conference.
In 2015-16, he helped lead a team that was picked to finish last in the Pac-12 to a 17-14 record, including a program-record 15 home wins highlighted by an upset over No. 7 Arizona.
The veteran Rupp has instilled a tenacious defensive philosophy that has helped the Beavers set school records for scoring defense, field-goal percentage defense and 3-point field goal percentage defense, while leading the Pac-12 in steals and turnover margin.
Rupp, who was hired at Oregon State on June 4, 2014, has nearly 20 years of coaching experience at six universities and has been a part of six NCAA Tournament teams.
He joined the collegiate ranks in 2000 after a successful 24-year high school coaching career. From 2000-04 he was an assistant coach at Utah and also served as the interim head coach there for part of the 2004 season. He was the associate head coach at Indiana from 2004-06 and an assistant coach at UAB in 2006-07. Rupp was the head coach at Louisiana Tech from 2007-11, the director of basketball operations at Hawai’i in 2011-12 and an assistant coach under Tinkle at Montana from 2012-14.
Rupp joined Tinkle’s staff at Montana in 2012 and helped the Grizzlies set a Big Sky Conference record with 19 league wins and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four years. He spent one season as the director of basketball operations at the University of Hawai’i in 2011-12 before moving to Missoula.
A native of Magna, Utah, Rupp got his first college head coaching job in 2007 when he was hired to turn around the Louisiana Tech Bulldog men’s basketball program. During his four years there, he led the team to new heights highlighted by a 24-11 record during the 2009-10 season when the team received votes in the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 19 years and advanced to the second round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
Rupp was named the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches and Louisiana Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year in 2010 after leading the Bulldogs to their best record since 1985.
Rupp posted an overall record of 66-77 at Louisiana Tech, including a nine-win improvement between his first and second seasons (6-24 to 15-18) and another nine-win improvement during that historic 2009-10 campaign (24-11). The team went 12-20 in his final year with the Bulldogs.
He was the associate head coach under Mike Davis at Indiana University for two seasons when the Hoosiers made the NIT in 2005 and the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Rupp followed Davis to UAB where he was an assistant coach for one season in 2006-07.
From 2000-04, he coached under Rick Majerus at the University of Utah and helped the Utes amass a record of 70-26 in four years, while receiving bids to the NCAA Tournament three times and the NIT once. Rupp was responsible for the recruiting of Andrew Bogut, who would become the Naismith College Player of the Year and the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft.
Rupp served as the interim head coach at Utah for part of the 2004 season, accumulating a 10-4 record and winning the Mountain West Tournament Championship for the first time in school history.
Prior to joining the collegiate ranks, Rupp enjoyed a 24-year career in the high school circuit, beginning at Unitah (1978-79) and Murray (1979-82) high schools as the head boys’ basketball coach. He served as an assistant coach (1986-90) and head coach (1990-2000) at Salt Lake’s City East High School where he led the Leopards to four region titles and two state title game appearances. Rupp also served as the school’s athletic director from 1992-2000.
He was named the Coach of the Year by the Utah High School Activities Association in 1999.
Rupp was an All-American in basketball and an all-state performer in football and hoops at Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah where he graduated in 1972. He played basketball for two years at Utah State before transferring to Southern Utah where he was named the Thunderbirds’ MVP and earned all-district and all-conference honors as a senior in 1977.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University in physical education in 1977.
Rupp was born on Feb. 24, 1954 in Magna, Utah. He and his wife, Lori, have five daughters (Alie, Lindsey, Shelby, Billie and Randie) and seven grandchildren.
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