Rick Croy
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San Diego County, California, U.S.
 Croy in 2025 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Associate head coach |
| Team | Arizona State |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 19, 1977 San Diego County, California, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–1999 | San Francisco State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1999–2001 | UC Riverside (Asst.) |
| 2001–2002 | Concordia Irvine (Asst.) |
| 2002–2005 | UC Riverside (Asst.) |
| 2005–2010 | Citrus College |
| 2010–2013 | St. Mary's (Assoc. HC) |
| 2013–2026 | California Baptist |
| 2026–present | Arizona State (Assoc. HC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 130–35 (.788) (junior college) 275–137 (.667) (college) |
| Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA Division I) 7–4 (NCAA Division II) 0–2 (CBI) |
Richard K. Croy (born July 19, 1977) is an American college basketball coach who is the current associate head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball team. Croy has been a basketball coach since 1999 and has held his current position at Arizona State since 2026.
Croy grew up in Walnut Creek, California and played college basketball at San Francisco State. He began his basketball coaching career as an assistant at UC Riverside and Concordia University Irvine. His first head coaching position was at the junior college level at Citrus College from 2005 to 2010. Under Croy, Citrus won 130 games, three conference titles, and a California state championship.
At California Baptist, Croy led the Lancers to five straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances from 2014 to 2018 and two Pacific West Conference titles. In 2018, California Baptist moved to Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference; Croy led California Baptist to an appearance in the 2019 College Basketball Invitational, and in 2019-20 went 21-10 culminating with the record for most wins in the first two years of the Division I transition, and led California Baptist to winning records in its first five Division I seasons.
Croy attended Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, California where he was a part of the 1995 CIF State Championship team.[1] In college, Croy holds the school record for three-point field goals, is second all-time in games played, and eighth all-time in scoring at San Francisco State where he graduated in 1999.[2]