Jim Littell | |
Current Title: | Assistant coach |
Current Team: | Wichita State |
Current Conference: | The American |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1955 |
Birth Place: | Wichita, Kansas |
Alma Mater: | Southwestern College (Kansas) |
Coach Years1: | 1978–1983 |
Coach Team1: | Oxford High School |
Coach Years2: | 1983–1988 |
Coach Team2: | Friends |
Coach Years3: | 1990–1991 |
Coach Team3: | Garden Plain High School (Girls Head) |
Coach Years4: | 1991–2005 |
Coach Team4: | Seward County CC |
Coach Years5: | 2005–2011 |
Coach Team5: | Oklahoma State (assoc. HC) |
Coach Years6: | 2011–2022 |
Coach Team6: | Oklahoma State |
Coach Years7: | 2022–present |
Coach Team7: | Wichita State (assistant) |
Tournament Record: | (NCAA Division I) (Big 12) |
James Alan Littell (born September 28, 1955) is a former head coach of the Oklahoma State University women's basketball team.[1] He is currently an assistant coach for the Wichita State.
Littell spent 14 seasons as the head coach at Seward County Community College, where he had a record of 418–61 and recorded nine conference titles. In 2005 he became an assistant coach at Oklahoma State under new coach Kurt Budke.
After Budke's death in a plane crash on November 17, 2011, Littell was promoted to head coach, and led the team to the 2012 Women's National Invitation Tournament championship.
On March 7, 2022, it was announced that Littell and Oklahoma State agreed to part ways after 11 years as head coach.