Chris Capko is the Men’s Basketball Associate Head Coach at Southern Methodist University where the Mustangs went 24-11 and earned a No.1 seed in the NIT in their first season under Head Coach Andy Enfield. Capko has 18 years of college coaching experience and has helped lead two different programs to post season play while also developing 11 NBA players.

Prior to SMU, Capko helped USC to a 176-93 record in eight seasons from 2016 – 2024 as an assistant or associate head coach including and Elite Eight trip in 2021. Capko, who served as USC Director of Operations during the 2013-15 seasons, returned to the Trojans after spending the 2015-16 season as an assistant coach at Florida International University (FIU). Capko also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Georgia Southern (2011-13) and at Stetson University (2009-11). Prior to his stint at Stetson, Capko served as a graduate assistant at Marshall University.

As a student-athlete, Capko spent his first semester in the basketball program at the University of Florida under head coach Billy Donovan, before transferring to the University of South Florida in Tampa where he played for three years. As a junior, he was fifth in the Big East in assists and as a senior he was the Bulls’ team captain. Capko earned Academic All-Big East honors as a junior and senior at USF. He was also the Bulls’ nominee for Big East Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year in 2007.

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