Southwest Baptist University Athletics

For the third time in five years, Jeff Guiot guided his SBU Bearcats to the MIAA regular season title and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009. He's now in his seventh season as SBU's head coach. Guiot continues to rank as the winningest coach by percentage in SBU men's basketball history.

The 2008-09 campaign was another in a string of great seasons engineered by Guiot. SBU was ranked as high as #2 (best since 1990-91) and was ranked in the top 12 nationally all season. The Bearcats reached the South Central Region final, the best showing in SBU history since the 1990-91 team got to the Elite Eight. SBU also set an MIAA record in 2008-09 for most conference wins in a season with 17. The Bearcats were the first MIAA school to win back-to-back regular season titles outright since Washburn in 2003 and 2004. The Bearcats earned national publicity with their opening win over D-I Utah, 80-79. SBU also continued the nation’s second longest active D-II home court winning streak, at 30 games to begin 2009-10. Guiot was named MIAA Coach of the Year while Matt Rogers and D'Ante Harris were named First Team All-MIAA and also picked All-Region honors. Rogers also earned four different All-American awards as well as repeating as MIAA Defensive Player of the Year.

The 2007-08 season saw Guiot's Bearcats capture the MIAA regular season title for the second time in three years, and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in school history.  The 22-8 team of a 2007-08 continued one of the greatest turnarounds in recent history in Division II basketball. Last year's Bearcats were led by First Team All-MIAA members Matt Rogers and Jim Grabowski and Second Team All-MIAA D'Ante Harris. Rogers was also named MIAA Defensive Player of the Year, joining Sheldon Pace as Bearcats under Guiot to win the award. On five different weeks during the 2007-08 season, Harris, Grabowski or Rogers were named MIAA Player of the Week. Rogers and Grabowski were also named to the NABC All-Region team. The Bearcats completed a perfect 15-0 season at home and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 95-79 victory over West Texas A&M in the South Central Regional in Stephenville, Texas. The 'Cats were the #5 seed and fell to the host Tarleton State in the regional semifinal.

Guiot pushed his 2005-06 team to new heights. That year, he led the Bearcats to a 14-0 start, an achievement no other team had received in the program's history, helping him earn D2 Bulletin Coach of the Month for the month of January 2006. Guiot took Bearcat basketball to an entirely new level of success, leading the Bearcats to their first MIAA regular season and tournament championships since 1991. SBU finished the 2005-06 campaign with a 27-5 record and went 12-4 in the conference. At the end of the season, SBU was ranked #6 in the nation and was the #1 seed in the South Central Region. As the #1 seed in the region, SBU was rewarded with hosting the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Tournament for the first time in the program's history. It was also only the third time in school history for the Bearcats to be in the NCAA Tournament.

Over his 16 seasons as a collegiate coach, Guiot has had 11 20-win seasons. He has led every team he has coached to a winning record. He has won a conference title eight out of his 16 years coaching. Guiot spent three seasons at NCAA Division II Bemidji State University before coming to SBU. At BSU, he turned around a struggling program in the NSIC. In his three years, he produced a 54-33 record, the most successful three-year run in school history, and won the NSIC (Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) regular season title in his final season.

Guiot was also NSIC Coach of the Year in 2003-04. In his final year at BSU, Guiot had his most talented and recognized team at Bemidji State. They had their first 20-win season in the history of the University and won the NSIC regular season title, a first since 1966-67. Charles Hanks was named to the North Central Region First Team and was the NSIC Player of the Year. Hanks' All-Region award was the first All-Region award given to a Beaver in the history of the program.

BSU also had the NSIC Newcomer of the Year in James Roberson. In the NSIC, Hanks, Roberson, and Adam Daley were named to the All-NSIC First-Team. The Beavers also led the nation in three-pointers per game at 11.7 and finished with the sixth-highest total of three-pointers made in NCAA Divsion II at 338. In that season, 24 records were broken from Bemidji State, the NSIC, and the NSIC Tournament combined. Guiot helped to turn around a struggling BSU program in three seasons. In his first season at Bemidji (2001-02), he guided the Beavers to a 17-11 record and their first NSIC tournament appearance. The 13 NSIC wins were a school best which put them at a third seed in the NSIC Tournament. The following season (2002-03) he led BSU to 17 wins again and to their first-ever NSIC Tournament semifinal game.

Prior to taking the job at Bemidji State, Guiot spent one season assisting at NCAA Division I Southern Utah University. In that one season, SUU had their best season ever in the history of the men's basketball program as they won the regular season and tournament championships in the Mid-Continent Conference. Because of their success, SUU was awarded their first ever bid to the NCAA Tournament.

From 1993 through 2000, Guiot served as the head coach at Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kansas. In those seven years, he had three all-Americans and six Academic all-Americans and posted the 2000 NJCAA National Academic Team of the Year. He never had a losing season and won four conference championships while making seven consecutive playoff appearances. With a 164-60 record, he posted the highest winning percentage ever at NCCC. He also had the most consecutive 20-win seasons, most wins at the school, and most postseason wins.

Guiot got his start at the high school level, where he was the head coach at two different high schools. He had a 48-18 record at Inman (KS) High School and in one season at Schell City (MO) High School he had a 15-8 record. He was also an assistant coach at Chanute (KS) High School where they were 20-4. Receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Pittsburg State (KS), Guiot was an all-American and all-conference player for the Gorillas. He led the nation in free throw percentage in the 1986 season. Before transferring to PSU, he played two years of basketball at the University of Kansas. In his final year at KU, he was coached by Larry Brown. At Chanute (KS) High School, he was a Converse all-American, a McDonald's all-American honorable mention pick, and the Most Valuable Player in the Kansas Basketball Classic.

Guiot is married to the former Tina Clark, who is a 1988 graduate of Southwest Baptist University. They have three children: Crystal, Preston, and Payton.