Todd Duncan is entering his 15th season leading the men’s basketball program after becoming the seventh head coach in program history and making his Lubbock Christian debut with the 2011-12 season.
Duncan holds an all-time record of 269-143 overseeing the Chaps through the 2024-25 season. He has led the team to seven NCAA South Central Regional appearances overall, including each of the last six years and two Lone Star Conference Championships. He has coach 42 All-Conference selections in his Lubbock Christian tenure.
LCU had five LSC honorees in the 2024-25 season, including the league's Player of the Year, Ethan Duncan, playing under his father for a second straight season. Ethan was also a First Team All-Region Selection and consensus All-American. The Chaps reached the NCAA Tournament again, winning the LSC West Division on the way there and playing in the LSC Tournament Championship game for a second consecutive season.
Lubbock Christian finished second in the LSC’s West Division in 2023-24 and advanced all the way to the LSC Tournament Championship game for the first time in program history. They finished the season 23-11 overall and 16-6 in league play, led by All-LSC First Team selection Tiras Morton and Second Team selections Najeeb Muhammad and Ethan Duncan. Morton was named to the D2CCA All-Region Second Team as well.
In the summer of 2023, Duncan earned a personal honor, as the Lubbock Independent School District announced his election to its Hall of Fame after three seasons as a letter-winner at Coronado High School.
The 2022-23 season saw the Chaps make another NCAA South Central Regional appearance. Rowan Mackenzie was named D2CCA All-Region First Team and LSC All-Conference First Team. Russell Harrison was Second Team All-LSC and Aaron Gonzales was named to the LSC All-Academic Team. The Chaps finished the season with a 19-14 record and had wins over No. 4 West Liberty and No. 15 Angelo State.
The Chaps opened the 2021-22 season with a new school record 20-0 start and were ranked No. 1 in all of Division-II basketball in multiple polls. LCU claimed a second straight Lone Star Conference Regular Season Championship and their first ever no. 1 seed in the South Central Region Rankings thanks in part to NABC All-American and Lone Star Conference Player of the Year Parker Hicks. Hicks led the conference in rebounds per game (8.9) and field goal percentage (55.8), while ranking second in points per game (19.6). Lloyd Daniels again joined Hicks on the All-LSC First Team.
The 2020-21 season was one of historic proportions for LCU, who got off to a program-best start of 16-0 and reaching as high as the No. 2 ranking in the D2SIDA National Top-25 Poll. The Chaps went on to claim the LSC crown with a road win over West Texas A&M to close out the regular season. Parker Hicks and Lloyd Daniels were named to the All-LSC First Team, while Hicks also earned the league’s Player of the Year honors and Duncan was named the LSC Coach of the Year. Hicks went on to earn NABC All-American honors as well, becoming the first Chap to reach All-American status in the programs D-II era.
In the 2021 postseason, LCU earned the No. 2 seed for the NCAA South Central Regional, which was also a program-best. After a first-round bye in the tournament – hosted at the Rip Griffin Center – Lubbock Christian beat Oklahoma Baptist 79-55 to advance to the regional final for the first time ever. The historic Chap season ended there, with an 18-3 LCU record. After the season, Duncan was honored with the Clarence Gaines D-II National Coach of the Year award, presented annually by CollegeInsider.com.
The ’19-’20 season was the beginning of the LSC era, as Duncan led the Chaps – along with a number of former Heartland schools – to join a new 18-team LSC. Despite losing their top-two scorers from the season before, the Chaps had a great showing in their first year of LSC play, going 19-10 overall and tying for fourth in the league with a 15-7 LSC record.
The 2018-19 season was one of the Chaps’ best with Duncan as the head coach. LCU started the season with wins over ranked teams Regis and Colorado School of Mines to set the tone for a year that saw them go 21-10 overall, including a win over No. 2 St. Edward’s. LCU placed third in the Heartland Conference and reached the NCAA South Central Regional for the second time ever. At the regional, the Chaps upset Colorado School of Mines in the first round.
LCU missed the NCAA Tournament in the 2017-18 season, posting a winning 9-7 record in the Heartland Conference despite being a game below .500 at 14-15 for the season. In the 2016-17 season, the Chaps were 19-11, against finishing third in the Heartland and winning their first-ever Heartland Conference Tournament game, but were not selected for the regional tournament.
Duncan first led Lubbock Christian into the South Central Regional in the 2015-16 season, which was its first to be postseason eligible after the transition to NCAA Division II Status. The Chaps were 21-10 overall that season, and reached the tournament as the No. 6 seed where they upset host and No 1 seed Midwestern State in overtime.
The 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons were LCU’s two seasons of transition from the NAIA to NCAA, but that did not stop Duncan and the Chaps from winning. They announced their arrival in Division II with a the third-best 20 game start in program history at 14-16 on the way to a 17-8 overall record. The second season at the Division II level featured a 16 wins, 13 of which came in conference play, comparted to just 11 overall losses.
Prior to his success at LCU, Duncan spent 15 seasons as the athletic director and head boy’s basketball coach at Trinity Christian School in Lubbock. At TCHS, Duncan led the Lions to eight Final Four appearances in the TAPPS State Tournament, including a number four ranking during his final season where the Lions finished the year with a 32-4 record. Duncan amassed over 400 career wins during his tenure and led his team to a state championship in 1999.
After graduating from local Coronado High School, Duncan began his college career at Midland College, where he played alongside Mookie Blaylock from 1985-1987. Duncan holds Midland College’s single-season records for three-point shooting percentage (.584) and free throw shooting (86.9%) from the 1986-87 season. He returned home in 1987 after transferring to Texas Tech University and suiting up with the Red Raiders from 1987-1989. Duncan is the Red Raiders’ career three-point shooting percentage leader with a mark of 46%. In just two seasons with the Red Raiders, Duncan knocked down 132 three-pointers to rank ninth all-time.
Duncan and wife, Holly, reside in Lubbock with their two children, daughter Ashton and son Ethan. Ethan spent two seasons at Texas Tech, played two seasons for his dad at LCU and has now transferred to Lipscomb, while Ashton graduated from Lubbock Christian University in 2022 after playing for the Lady Chaps basketball team.
