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Chris Bunch enters his 20th season in 2021-22 as the head men's basketball coach at Webster University.

During his time with the Gorloks, Bunch has led the men's basketball program to eight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships, including taking home back-to-back league titles in both 2018-19 and 2019-20. In addition, he has been chosen the SLIAC Coach of the Year six times ( 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2011-12, 2018-19 and 2019-20) and was also awarded the D3Hoops.com Central Region Coach of the Year in 2013-14 after leading Webster to a 20-8 overall record, a SLIAC Tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III Basketball Tournament.

Entering the 2021-22 season, Bunch's record stands at 287-194 overall with eight regular season SLIAC titles and six Coach of the Year accolades. The Gorloks are also 221-83 in SLIAC play during coach Bunch's tenure, the best mark of any conference school in that span, including going 35-9 in league the past three years. Last season, Webster went 4-6 overall in a COVID ridden year and 4-4 in the SLIAC play. In the 2019-20 season he led the Gorloks to both regular season and SLIAC Tournament titles while advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014.

Bunch is the all-time winningest men's basketball coach in Webster history and had led the program to eight SLIAC regular season titles, three SLIAC Tournament titles and three NCAA Tournament appearances (2011, 2014 and 2020). He is the fourth longest active tenured coach in the SLIAC entering the 2021-22 season.

Before coming to Webster, Bunch was an assistant coach at Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. In addition to his collegiate experience, Bunch served as a high school head basketball coach for seven years in his native state of Tennessee. As a high school coach, Bunch won 100 games and had two teams that were ranked in the Top 10 in the state of Tennessee.

Bunch is a 1988 graduate of Lincoln Memorial University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Science Education and a Master of Arts in Administration and Supervision which he received in 2002.