Ray Lopes

Raymond Lopes (born December 8, 1962) is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach at Washington State University. He was the head men's basketball coach at Fresno State from 2002 to 2005, before resigning due to his involvement in the recruiting violations the program committed during his time there.^[1]

Ray Lopes

Personal information
Born	(1962-12-08) December 8, 1962 (age 62) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Career information
High school	Moreau Catholic (Hayward, California)
College	West Valley CC (1983–1985) College of Idaho (1985–1987)
Coaching career	1987–2014
Career history
As a coach:
1987–1988	West Valley CC (assistant)
1988–1989	Weber State (assistant)
1989–1993	UC Santa Barbara (assistant)
1993–1994	Washington State (assistant)
1994–2002	Oklahoma (assistant)
2002–2005	Fresno State
2006–2008	Idaho Stampede (associate HC)
2008–2009	Idaho (assistant)
2009–2012	Idaho (associate HC)
2012–2014	Washington State (assistant)
Career highlights
As coach: WAC regular season (2003) WAC Coach of the Year (2003)
Career coaching record
NCAA:	50–37 (.575)

Coaching career

Lopes began his coaching career at West Valley Community College as an assistant coach, later going on to coach at Weber State, UC Santa Barbara, Washington State, and Oklahoma.

Fresno State

Lopes was named the head coach at Fresno State on April 3, 2002, replacing Jerry Tarkanian.^[2] In his first season at the helm, he led the Bulldogs to their first outright regular season conference title since 1965 en route to earning conference Coach of the Year honors.^[3]

Lopes resigned from Fresno State after the 2004–05 season after it was revealed that he had violated the telephone contact recruiting rule, something that he had also done while as an assistant at Oklahoma.^[1] He received a three-year show-cause penalty as a punishment, beginning from his departure from Fresno State.^[4]

Post–Fresno State

Lopes spent one season as a scout with the San Antonio Spurs before joining the Idaho Stampede of the NBA D-League as the associate head coach.^[5] He was also an assistant coach at Idaho before returning for another stint at Washington State as an assistant.^[6][7]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Fresno State (Western Athletic Conference) (2002–2005)
2002–03	Fresno State	20–8 [n 1]	13–5 [n 1]	1st [n 1]
2003–04	Fresno State	14–15	10–8	6th
2004–05	Fresno State	16–14	9–9	T–4th
Fresno State:		50–37 (.575)	32–22 (.593)
Total:		50–37 (.575)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

Notes

1. Fresno State was not eligible for the NCAA tournament as they were under probation for academic violations and as a result, was not eligible for the WAC tournament.^[8]