Honors
• XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2017
Briefly
• 2020-21 is his fifth season on the XULA men's basketball staff and his ninth overall at the university
• This is second season as an assistant coach after two seasons (2017-19)
as a graduate assistant and one season (2016-17) as a student assistant
• XULA is 171-89 (.658) during Smith's association with the program —
92-40 (.697) as a player and 79-49 (.617) on the coaching staff
• Also works at XULA as assistant director of residential education
• 2017 XULA graduate, bachelor of science degree
• Native of New Orleans
• Spent his high school years in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, Texas,
and a 2012 graduate of The Village School
At XULA
• Four Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season championships: 2012-13 (shared) and 2013-14
as a player, 2017-18 (shared) and 2019-20 on the staff
• One GCAC Tournament championship: 2019-20 — the Gold Rush's first GCAC Tournament
championship since the 1995-96 season
• Qualified six times for NAIA National Championship tournaments:
2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 as a player, 2017-18 and 2019-20 on the staff
• No. 10 in the final NAIA Division I top 25 coaches poll of 2019-20
• 19 victories against top-25 opponents, seven in 2019-20
At XULA (Coach)
• Six NAIA All-America citations, including William Loyd on the second team in 2019-20
• GCAC individual player major awards: Freshman of the Year
for Rayshawn Mart (2017-18) and TJ Jones (2019-20, shared) and Defensive Player of the Year
for Joseph Williams (2017-18)
• Four selections to Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars
• 39 qualifiers in four seasons — 16 in 2019 —
for the Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll
• Two teams were top-10 in NAIA Division I scoring defense . . .
No. 7 in 2017-18 with 67.8 points allowed per game and No. 10 in 2019-20 with 67.6
At XULA (Student-Athlete)
• Holds school record for games played in a career with 131
• Toed for 16th at XULA in career assists with 260
• A 6-foot-1 guard who averaged 4.8 points, 1.7 rebounds, two assists
and made 56 3-pointers in 131 games in four seasons (2012-16)
• XULA qualified for NAIA nationals each of his four seasons
• Game highs included 24 points, nine rebounds, 10 assists and three steals
• As a junior (2014-15) he won team's award for most improved player
High School
• Four-year starter and four-year team captain in basketball
• Set school record for assists in a career
• Was chosen the team's top defensive player four consecutive seasons
• Averaged 14.5 points, six assists, six rebounds and three steals per game as a senior (2011-12)
• Reggie Rankin of Scouts Inc., writing on ESPN.com, had this analysis of Smith at
the 2009 National Prep Alliance Invitational Tournament in Fort Worth, Texas:
"Smith has a nice midrange game, finds the open man and plays under control."
• All-tournament four times
• Averaged 13 points and six assists per game as a sophomore (2009-10)
