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Heading into his 22nd season at the helm in 2022-23, Orr has amassed an overall win-loss record of 508-172 (.747 winning percentage), and is currently 10th among NAIA active coaches in all-time victories.

The all-time winningest coach in Lewis-Clark State College Women's Basketball history, and one of the preeminent coaches in the NAIA, Orr led LC State to back-to-back Cascade Conference regular-season titles. LC won five Frontier Conference regular season titles, seven Frontier Conference tournament titles, and played in 13 Frontier Conference Championship games in Orr’s 19 seasons. He led his team to three straight regular-season conference championships from 2006-08, and back-to-back titles from 2016-2017.  His 20-year conference record of 227-84 (.730) has earned him five Frontier Conference Coach of the Year awards. He picked up his first Cascade Conference honor in 2021 to bring his total to six.
 
Orr’s Warrior teams have made 18 trips to the NAIA National Tournament, including eight straight from 2005 to 2012, and six of the last seven seasons. Orr led the Warriors to the national title game in 2017, before losing to Oklahoma City 73-66. His Warrior teams have reached the round of 16 11 times in 15 appearances, and have three National Quarterfinal finishes (2008, 2016, and 2019). The Warrior women upset Carroll College at home when LC hosted the 2021 Opening Round to punch their ticket to the Round of 16.
 
On December 10, 2005, with a victory over Warner Pacific College, Orr won his 100th contest, a milestone that was achieved faster than any previous L-C basketball coach.  He leads a Warrior program that is seventh all-time in NAIA Women’s basketball victories.  L-C State has amassed 895 wins since their inaugural season in 1973.
 
Orr hit the 200-win milestone in one of the Warriors’ most memorable games when they defeated Westminster 79-78 in the championship game of the Frontier Conference Tournament in Salt Lake City in 2009. Westminster had won its previous 16 games against conference opponents during the season before the Warriors were able to capture their second straight conference tournament title.
 
The Frontier Conference semifinal game on March 3, 2017 was the setting for Orr’s His 400th career win, a 85-46 drubbing of Montana Tech. Orr earned his 300th career win at Lewis-Clark State on Nov. 9, 2013 in an 81-67 win over Langston (Okla.) at the Activity Center.  His 200th road-win came in the 2019 NAIA National Tournament.  The Warrior coach has averaged more than 24 wins per year over his 18 seasons, and has won 21-or-more games 16 times. He has accumulated a home record of 245-42 (.854).  

The leader of the Warrior women reached the 500-win mark on Feb. 5, 2022 with a 71-67 victory over Eastern Oregon.
 
TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
The 2020 Warriors were fourth in NAIA DI in free throw percentage.
The 2019 Warriors were sixth in the nation in assists, and eighth in assists/turnover ratio.
The 2017 Warriors led the nation in assist/turnover ratio, were third in field goal percentage, and fourth in scoring margin.
The 2016 Warriors led the nation in 3-point field goal percentage, and free throw percentage.
The 2015 Warriors were fifth in the nation in free throw percentage.
The 2014 Warriors were third in the nation in steals.
The 2012 Warriors were second in the nation in field goal percentage defense, and third in blocked shots.
The 2011 Warriors were second in the nation in blocked shots.
The 2008 Warriors were second in the nation in scoring margin, and third in rebound margin.
The 2007 Warriors were third in the nation in scoring margin.
The 2006 Warriors were third in the nation in rebounding margin.

Coach Orr has had 27 players named to NAIA All-American teams, and 55 NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Before coming to Lewiston, Orr was the top women’s assistant at Montana State University in Bozeman. During the 2000-01 campaign, the MSU Bobcats posted the fourth-best turnaround in NCAA Division I and finished with an 18-10 overall record and an 11-5 record in the Big Sky Conference.

Prior to his stop in Bozeman, Orr served as the first women’s basketball coach at the University of Great Falls in 15 years. Brian also served as the top assistant coach at perennial NCAA Division II power Montana State University-Billings from 1996-98. In his three years at MSU Billings he helped lead the Yellowjackets to a 64-22 record and three straight trips to the National Tournament. MSUB finished the 1998-99 season at 25-6 and advanced to the “Elite Eight,” the best finish in school history.

Before serving at MSU Billings, Orr was the head boys basketball coach at Fergus High School in Lewistown, Mont., from 1991-96. He was named the school’s Teacher of the Year in 1996. He also served as both the head boys and girls coach at Simms High School in Simms, Mont., from 1986-91. In 1990, he led the team to the Montana State High School Class B State Championship, while being named Coach of the Year by the Montana Coaches Association. And in 1989, he was honored by the Dufresne Foundation as the Outstanding Educator of the Year.

Orr began his head coaching career at Joplin-Inverness High School in Joplin, Mont. From 1982-86, he served as the school’s head boys and girls basketball coach and athletic director. In his 14-year high school coaching career, his teams won five conference titles and his girls’ teams amassed a 101-39 (.721) record.

A native of Livingston, Mont., Orr graduated in 1982, from Eastern Montana College, now known as Montana State-Billings, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education. He received his Master’s of Science Degree in Education from MSU Billings in 1997. Brian is married to the former Bonnie Olson. The couple has four children, Pat, Casey, TJ, and Bobby.

Coach Orr’s LCSC Career