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| David "Dickey" Nutt Coaching Career | ||
| 1985-87 | Oklahoma State | Assistant Coach |
| 1987-95 | Arkansas State | Assistant Coach |
| 1995-08 | Arkansas State | Head Coach |
| 2009-15 | SE Missouri State | Head Coach |
| 2015-18 | Florida State | Video Coordinator |
| 2018-19 | Stetson | Assistant Coach |
| 2019-21 | Cleveland State | Special Assistant Coach |
| 2021-22 | Gaston College | Head Coach/Athletic Dir. |
| 2022- | Missouri | Assistant Coach (22-24) Senior Advisor (24-25) Assistant Coach (25- ) |
Bringing more than 30 years of coaching experience to Missouri, including 19 years as a head coach, David "Dickey" Nutt is in his fourth season with the Tigers, returning to the sideline as an assistant coach in 2025-26.
In his first campaign with the Tigers, Nutt helped lead a turnaround in Columbia that accumulated in the program’s top season in years. The Tigers improved their record by 12 games in 2022-23 – the seventh-best mark in the nation and the highest by a power-conference team – as MU claimed its most wins in 11 years, won its first NCAA Tournament game in 13 seasons and recorded its best conference finish since joining the SEC in 2012.
The success didn’t stop after just one season on campus. In 2023, Nutt helped the Tigers land the nation’s fifth-ranked recruiting class and followed it up with three wins over schools ranked in the top five in 2024-25 – a first for the program since 1988-89. Overall, Mizzou has eclipsed 20 wins and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in two of three years with Nutt on the sideline.
An experienced Division I coach, Nutt joined MU with head-coaching tenures at both Arkansas State from 1995 to 2008 and Southeast Missouri State from 2009 to 2015. The 1998 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year, Nutt guided Arkansas State to 189 wins, two Sun Belt Championships and the program's only NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament appearance in 1999.
Following his head coaching stints, Nutt joined Leonard Hamilton's staff at Florida State as a video coordinator and was a part of the Seminoles’ 2018 Elite Eight run. He also worked with Coach Gates at Cleveland State as a Special Assistant Coach for Student-Athlete Development. Directly prior to joining the Tigers, Nutt served as the head coach and athletic director at Gaston College in Dallas, North Carolina during the 2021-22 campaign.
Nutt played collegiately at Oklahoma State and began his coaching career as an assistant at Stillwater High School from 1982-85. He then joined the coaching staff at his alma mater, where he worked for Leonard Hamilton and alongside current Kansas head coach, Bill Self.
Nutt has two sons, Logan and Lucas, and a daughter Lexis. Logan is a high school basketball head coach in Arkansas and Lucas runs 3:16 Athletics Training Center.
Hailing from a large family of coaches, Nutt’s older brother, Houston, works a college football studio analyst for CBS and was previously the head football coach at Ole Miss and Arkansas. His younger brother, Danny, served as an Assistant Athletics Director for Player Development at Ole Miss and was the running backs coach at Arkansas and Eastern Illinois. Nutt's third brother, Dennis, was previously the head men’s basketball coach at Texas State and currently serves as the head coach at Ouachita Baptist in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Nutt earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education and his master’s in athletic administration, both from Oklahoma State.
