Josh Prock enters his fifth season at the helm of the Lady Buff Basketball program.
The 2024-25 campaign saw the Lady Buffs qualify for the program's 29th NCAA Tournament with an overall record of 19-13, advancing to the South Central Regional Semifinals in Denton, Texas.
The Lady Buffs made the program's 28th appearance in the NCAA Division II Postseason during the 2022-23 campaign as they went 21-11 overall including a 14-8 mark in Lone Star Conference action.
Prock guided WT to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight during his first season in Maroon & White, finishing the campaign with an overall record of 26-11 as WT claimed the LSC Regular Season and Tournament Titles followed by a run to the South Central Regional Championship at the First United Bank Center in Canyon.
Prock was introduced as West Texas A&M's head women’s basketball coach on June, 2, 2021. Prock is no stranger to the Lone Star Conference as he spent eight seasons as the head coach at Eastern New Mexico leading the Greyhounds to their only three NCAA Tournament appearances in program history. Over the past four seasons, he accumulated a record of 77-41 including ENMU’s first LSC Championship in program history in 2016-17 where he was named the league’s Coach of the Year.
The 2019-20 Greyhounds turned in one of the best season’s in program history, earning its third NCAA Tournament bid in four seasons and posting the second-best winning percentage in the ENMU record book with a 22-9 overall record. Under Prock’s leadership, the Hounds advanced to the LSC Championship Semifinals for the first time since the 1992-93 season.
Prock reached a pair of impressive coaching milestones in 2019-20, first by earning his 200th career NCAA victory with a 60-45 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville on Jan. 25 before earning his 100th victory with ENMU with a 70-52 playoff win over Oklahoma Christian on March 3. Prock became just the second ENMU coach to reach the 100-win threshold in program history.
The Greyhounds finished the 2018-19 campaign with a 19-11 overall record and a 14-6 mark in Lone Star Conference play while posting an impressive 12-1 record inside Greyhound Arena, setting the best home record in the program’s 45-year history. Three players from last year’s squad took home All-LSC honors highlighted by D2CCA South Central Second Team honoree Treyanna Clay.
The 2016-17 Lone Star Coach of the Year followed up the program’s most successful season in decades with another quality campaign during the 2017-18 effort. The Hounds posted an overall record of 16-12, including a 12-8 mark in conference play that earned a fourth-seed in the LSC Championship.
Eastern posted a historic season in 2016-17 that saw the program win an LSC Championship and make their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in school history. ENMU recorded its first winning season since 2006-07 and first LSC winning record since 2003-04.
Prior to joining the Division II ranks in 2013, Prock was the head coach at Howard Payne for five seasons posting an impressive record of 108-31 (.770). He was twice named the American Southwest Conference West Division Coach of the Year while coaching two All-Americans, five all-region selections and a pair of ASC Players of the Year. His program was equally impressive in the classroom with 13 Academic All-ASC honorees.
He also spent time at Billy Ryan High School in Denton and was an assistant in Kentucky Wesleyan for two seasons. He began his coaching career in 2001 at the University of Oklahoma as a graduate assistant under head coach Kelvin Sampson.
Prock and his wife Angie are the proud parents of three children: Nolan, Jenna and Colton.
