Steven Michael Henson (born February 2, 1968) is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player who is an assistant for Baylor University. He previously served as the head coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round (44th pick overall) of the 1990 NBA draft. He was an assistant basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma under his former college coach Lon Kruger.
College career
Henson played collegiately at Kansas State University, where he was named to the All-Big Eight Conference first team in 1989. He is Kansas State's all-time leader in assists, and remains in the top ten on the all-time
NCAA career
free throw percentage list, with a .900 mark. He was also a track and field
decathlete at Kansas State.
Professional career
In six seasons in the
NBA, Henson played for the Bucks,
Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, and
Detroit Pistons. During his NBA career, Henson appeared in 238 games and averaged 3.1 points per game.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
|-
| align="left" | 1990–91
| align="left" | Milwaukee
|
68 || 0 || 10.1 || .418 || .333 || .905 || 0.8 || 1.9 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 3.1
|-
| align="left" | 1991–92
| align="left" | Milwaukee
| 50 || 1 || 7.7 || .361 || .479 || .793 || 0.8 || 1.6 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 3.0
|-
| align="left" | 1992–93
| align="left" | Atlanta
| 53 ||
2 ||
13.6 || .390 || .463 || .850 ||
1.0 ||
2.9 ||
0.6 || 0.0 ||
4.0
|-
| align="left" | 1993–94
| align="left" | Charlotte
| 3 || 0 || 5.7 ||
.500 ||
1.000 || .000 || 0.3 || 1.7 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.0
|-
| align="left" | 1994–95
| align="left" | Portland
| 37 || 0 || 10.3 || .430 || .442 || .880 || 0.7 || 2.3 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 3.2
|-
| align="left" | 1997–98
| align="left" | Detroit
| 23 || 0 || 2.8 ||
.500 || .375 ||
1.000 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.6
|-
| align="left" | 1998–99
| align="left" | Detroit
| 4 || 0 || 6.3 ||
.500 || .000 ||
1.000 || 0.0 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 1.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 238 || 3 || 9.6 || .403 || .432 || .869 || 0.7 || 2.0 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 3.1
|}
Playoffs
|-
| align="left" | 1990–91
| align="left" | Milwaukee
|
3 || 0 || 13.3 ||
.500 ||
.667 ||
.750 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 ||
5.7
|-
| align="left" | 1992–93
| align="left" | Atlanta
|
3 || 0 ||
15.7 || .333 || .400 || .000 ||
1.3 ||
1.7 ||
1.3 || 0.0 || 2.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 6 || 0 || 14.5 || .429 || .500 || .750 || 1.2 || 1.3 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 4.2
|}
Coaching career
Since retiring from playing basketball, Henson has turned to coaching. He has been an assistant at Illinois, with the Atlanta Hawks, at South Florida, at UNLV and at Oklahoma.
After a successful 2015–16 season with the Oklahoma Sooners to the 2016 Final Four in Houston, Henson was announced to succeed
Brooks Thompson as the new head coach for UTSA.
UTSA (2016–2024)
On April 1, 2016, Henson was hired as the head coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and assumed his new position after the Sooners' exit from the NCAA tournament the following day. In his first year of coaching, Henson engaged in a major rebuilding effort after succeeding Thompson as head coach. In his first year, UTSA posted a nine-win improvement in the overall record, going to 14–19 and a five-win improvement in
Conference USA (C-USA) games to 8–10. In his second season, Henson posted a winning record for the first time since 2011–12, going 20–15 for the season and 11–7 in conference play, and being named the conference coach of the year. The UTSA Roadrunners lost in the quarterfinals of the 2018 C-USA tournament, but secured an invite into the 2018 CIT tournament. After three straight seasons with 20 or more losses, Henson was fired from UTSA on March 14, 2024.
Head coaching record
College
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