Chris Gerlufsen (born September 16, 1976) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the

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team. He served as the acting head coach for Hawaii during their 2019–20 season while head coach

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took a leave of medical absence, compiling an 8–5 record during that period.

Early life and college

Gerlufsen is a native of

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, and the son of former

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head coach Ron Gerlufsen. Gerlufsen played at

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where he was a

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and a captain on teams that made the NCAA Division III tournament twice. Gerlufsen graduated from Randolph–Macon with a degree in business and economics in 1998.

Coaching career

Early coaching career

Gerlufsen began his coaching career at

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in Maryland as a graduate assistant in 1998, before spending a season at Southwestern. He joined

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in 2000, where he was a graduate assistant for a year before joining the staff full-time in 2001. He was promoted to lead assistant before the start of the 2003–04 season. He left after the 2005–06 season to join the coaching staff at

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Hartford

Gerlufsen spent seven years as an assistant coach at Hartford before being promoted to associate head coach at the start of the 2013–14 season. He also served as the team's recruiting coordinator during his tenure there.

San Diego

On April 28, 2015, it was announced that Gerlufsen would be joining the University of San Diego's men's basketball program as an assistant coach. He spent four seasons there, three as an assistant on Lamont Smith's staff, and one year as an assistant on

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's staff, where he was instrumental in turning a 9 win team into a 21 win team. Gerlufsen left after the 2018–19 season to join the coaching staff at

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Hawaii

Gerlufsen was introduced as the new assistant coach for Hawaii on September 3, 2019, serving as the team's lead assistant and de facto

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. On November 6, he was named acting head coach after head coach

took a medical leave of absence. He compiled an 8–5 record as acting head coach, relinquishing head coaching duties on December 28 when Ganot returned from medical leave.

San Francisco

Gerlufsen joined

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in 2021 as their associate head coach. After

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's departure to take the head coaching position at

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, Gerlufsen was elevated to head coach.

Head coaching record

Notes

References

External links

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San Francisco profile

San Diego profile
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