time as a professional head coach, as well as his first time coaching women. Richardson's tenure with the Shock was far from successful. His first season ended before it began when key players who had led the Shock to three WNBA titles opted, for various reasons, not to make the move to Tulsa. This forced Richardson to try to build the team around disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones, who hadn't played a meaningful basketball game since her college days 13 years earlier. The players also found it difficult to adjust to Richardson's frenetic style. A lack of continuity plagued the team as well; all of the players who had come from Detroit had left the team by the middle of the season, and Richardson seemingly juggled the roster on a game-by-game basis. The final result was a dreadful 6-28 record, last in the league. Richardson tried to rebuild the team by coaxing Sheryl Swoopes out of retirement, but after a 1-10 start, Richardson resigned on July 8, 2011. Head coaching record Junior College College †Richardson was replaced by interim coach Mike Anderson before the end of the season. WNBA |- | align="left" |Tulsa | align="left" | |34||6||28|||| 5th in Western ||||||||||| |- | align="left" |Tulsa | align="left" | |11||1||10|||| (resigned) ||||||||||| |-class="sortbottom" | align="left" |Career | || 45||7||38|| See also List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach References External links Arkansas Razorbacks bio 1941 births Living people African-American basketball coaches African-American basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Mexico American expatriate basketball people in Panama American men's basketball players Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball coaches Basketball coaches from Texas Basketball players from El Paso, Texas College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Forwards (basketball) Junior college men's basketball coaches in the United States Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Sportspeople from El Paso, Texas Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball coaches Tulsa Shock head coaches UTEP Miners men's basketball players 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American sportspeople Women's National Basketball Association general managers