Oklahoma State finds its new women’s basketball coach in Kansas City
Jacie Hoyt, who led UMKC to 20-victory seasons in two of the past three years, was hired as the new women’s basketball coach at Oklahoma State on Sunday.
Hoyt finishes her five-year career at Kansas City with a record for 81-65. The Roos finished 23-9 this season, losing in the first round of the Women’s NIT. Her conference record at UMKC is 48-31.
UMKC won its first conference championship in 2020, capturing the WAC title. The conference tournament was canceled after the quarterfinals, and the NCAA Tournament was later canceled, as well.
The Roos’ 13 conference victories that season and their 12 wins in the Summit League this season are the top two league-victory totals in school history.
Hoyt took over at UMKC after serving three seasons as an assistant coach at K-State under head coach Jeff MIttie. The Wildcats went to the NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons during her stay.
Hoyt played at Wichita State, and her mother, Shelly Hoyt, is a Kansas high school coaching legend who led Hoxie to a state-record 107 victories and four straight state championships.
This marks the second time a UMKC coach continued her career at Oklahoma State. In 2012 Candi Whitaker left Kansas City to become an associate head coach in Stillwater. After one season there, Whitaker became the head coach at Texas Tech. She’s now the head coach at Missouri Western and has the Griffons in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight.
In another coaching move, Missouri State’s Amaka Agugua-Hamilton is taking over at Virginia. In three years in Springfield, Agugma-Hamilton went 74-15 overall and 46-6 in the Missouri Valley Conference. Her teams won the league’s regular-season championship in 2020 and 2021 and made NCAA Tournament appearances each of the past two seasons, including a Sweet 16 run in 2021.
Jacie Hoyt at UMKC
2017-18: 11-19
2018-19: 16-15
2019-20: 21-10
2020-21: 10-12
2021-22: 23-9
This story was originally published March 20, 2022 at 2:15 PM.