Bringing 15 years of Division I coaching experience to the Island, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men’s basketball team announced the hiring of Terrence Rencher as an assistant coach in July 2024.
A former NBA guard and the all-time leading scorer in Texas Longhorn history, Terrence Rencher joins the Islanders ahead of the 2024-25 season as an Assistant Coach after spending three years at Oklahoma State recently serving as the Associate Head Coach.
In 15 years as a Division I assistant, Rencher has proven himself as an excellence teacher, developer, evaluator and recruiter.
He took on recruiting coordinator responsibilities at OSU prior to the 2022-23 season and, in his first full cycle, helped the Cowboys ink a top-10 signing class. In his first season (2021-22), Rencher helped the Cowboys to a 15-15 record and a fifth-place finish in the Big 12. As a team, the Pokes posted the fourth-best adjusted efficiency defense in the country that year, alongside the seventh-best block percentage and held teams to the ninth-lowest two-point shooting percentage, according to KenPom.
Prior to OSU, Rencher was an assistant at Creighton (2019-21), San Diego (2017-19), New Mexico (2015-17), Texas State (2013-15 and 2009-11), Sam Houston State (2012-13) and Tulsa (2011-12).
In two seasons at Creighton under head coach Greg McDermott, Rencher helped the Bluejays to a combined 46-16 record, highlighted by the program’s first Big East regular season title in 2020 and a Sweet 16 appearance in 2021. Along the way he helped groom four all-conference selections in Ty-Shon Alexander, Marcus Zegarowski, Damien Jefferson and Denzel Mahoney.
Rencher was part of back-to-back 20-win seasons at San Diego, which won a pair of CIT games during the 2018 postseason and earned a bid to the 2019 NIT.
Prior to USF, he was on staff at New Mexico for two seasons under Craig Neal (2015-17). The Lobos posted double-digit Mountain West Conference wins in both years and led the nation in free throw rate in 2017.
Rencher worked with two different head coaches in two separate stints at Texas State. Under Doug Davalos (2009-11), the Bobcats twice ranked among the nation’s top-five in tempo and won a share of the Southland’s 2011 West Division title. Under defensive-minded Danny Kaspar (2013-15), TSU led the Sun Belt in scoring defense in back-to-back years.
In between, Rencher spent a year each at Tulsa (2011-12) and Sam Houston State (2012-13) working with Doug Wojcik and Jason Hooten respectively. Sparked by Jordan Clarkson, a first team All-Conference USA performer and eventual NBA Draft pick, the 2012 Golden Hurricane overcame a slow start to finish tied for third in the CUSA race. The 2013 Bearkats posted a 17-17 record and made the Southland tournament semifinals.
Rencher’s coaching career began at Regents School of Austin where he served as head coach during the 2007-08 season. He moved into the college ranks a year later as graduate assistant under hall of famer Rick Majerus at Saint Louis.
A Bronx native, Rencher was New York’s Mr. Basketball in 1991 while leading St. Raymonds High School to a city championship. He went on to play at the University of Texas where he finished as the program’s all-time leader in both points (2,306) and steals (255). The two-time All-Southwest Conference selection and 1992 Dick Vitale National Freshman of the Year helped guide the Longhorns to three NCAA tournaments and three conference titles.
Rencher was selected in the second round, No. 32 overall, by the Washington Bullets in the 1995 NBA Draft and later spent time with the Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns. Rencher’s 12-year professional journey eventually took him to the CBA and overseas. He was a league MVP in Italy and Germany and an all-star in Israel in Croatia.
After retiring, Rencher returned to the University of Texas where he completed his bachelor’s degree in education with a focus on youth and community studies in 2007.
He and his wife, Faye, have two daughters: Siena and Savannah.
