Chadron State College Athletics

2019 - In Houston Reed's fourth season as head men's basketball coach at Chadron State College, he is coming off the program's best overall season, and the first with 10 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference wins, in seven years.

Each of his previous three seasons, at least one Eagles men's basketball player has garnered All-RMAC honorable mention from the league's coaches, and his recruiting classes have been among the best in the league year in and year out.

He is steadily changing the culture of CSC men's basketball and building from the ground up. Since Reed's arrival in spring of 2016, he has signed three state players of the year, at least 13 All-State players altogether, five with NCAA Division I experience, and numerous junior college transfers.

He began in 2016-17, securing exhibition games against the University of Nebraska and the University of Wyoming. In his second season, the Eagles won at in-state rival Nebraska-Kearney for the first time since 2009, and scored the program's first victory over state NAIA power Bellevue University since 1987. Last year, the Eagles were just one game shy of their first postseason appearance since 2013.

Reed came to Chadron State after serving as head men’s basketball coach for the previous 10 years at Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colorado. All told, he has put together a career record of 192-204, with an impressive 135-110 mark over the past eight years.
 
During his final five years at Otero, the Rattlers won the highly competitive NJCAA Region IX Tournament in 2012, made a repeat appearance in the title game in 2013, and in his final season there, won the Region IX South Division in 2015-16 with a 15-1 conference record. Reed was voted the Region IX Coach of the Year in both 2012 and 2016.
 
In 2012, by virtue of winning the regional, Reed took his program to its first-ever NJCAA national tournament appearance, where they advanced to the Elite 8.
 
While at Otero, Reed coached 29 academic all-region and 12 academic All-American players. Four of his teams finished in the top-20 nationally for team grade point average. He placed 67 players to four-year institutions, including six to NCAA Division I schools in the past two years.

Prior to OJC, Reed was head boys’ basketball coach at Rocky Ford High School in Colorado, where he took a winless team to the Colorado 2A Sweet-16 in only two seasons.
 
As a player from 1998-2002, Reed first starred at OJC, where he holds the single-game scoring record (46) and currently sits 15th on the all-time scoring leader board. Following his graduation from Otero, he played for two seasons at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota under legendary coach Don Meyer who leads the NCAA in all-time wins.