University of North Texas Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Alma Mater:
- Austin College, 2007
Jason Burton recently completed his third season as head coach of the Mean Green after being hired on March 27, 2023. The ninth head women’s basketball coach in UNT history, Burton arrived in Denton after nine incredibly successful seasons as the head coach at East Texas A&M, formerly known as Texas A&M-Commerce.
Since taking over the Mean Green program, Burton has guided UNT to its most successful three-year stretch ever. North Texas is coming off its third-straight season winning at least 19 games, a first in program history, and its 67 total wins in that span are the most in any three-year stretch throughout UNT’s 50 seasons of competition. It also captured a share of the 2024 American Conference regular season championship, marking the program’s second conference title, and appeared in back-to-back national postseason tournaments in 2024 and 2025.
In the three seasons since Burton’s hiring, UNT’s 67 total wins and 39 in league play both lead the American Conference. It also leads the league in several different statistical categories such as points per game (71.6), field goals per game (26.0), field goal percentage (42.8), free throws per game (14.9) and opponent three-point percentage (28.4). Additionally, North Texas is one of two American Conference teams with three straight top-four finishes in the league standings and the only to have secured true road wins over a power conference opponent in each of the last two years.
Most recently, North Texas went 19-14 during the 2025-26 season and came within a victory of the American Conference tournament finals for the second year in a row. The Mean Green ranked top three among league competitors in both scoring offense and defense, finished tied for fourth in the conference standings and set the program record for three-pointers in a season with 181. Sharpshooters Andi Schissler and Aysia Proctor played big roles in the record-breaking effort, each making 59 themselves to crack the top five of UNT’s single-season list.
The 2025-26 season also saw the breakout of Megan Nestor, who went from NAIA play to Division I superstar under Burton’s tutelage. Despite it only being her fourth year of competitive basketball and first at the DI level, Nestor emerged as one of the most dominant posts in the country by averaging 12.8 points and 14.1 rebounds per game. As the nation’s leading rebounder, Nestor ranked top in the country with 21 double doubles while breaking nearly every UNT and American Conference rebounding record. She collected several postseason awards from the league, including being named Defensive Player of the Year and All-Conference First Team.
In his first season at the helm, Burton led North Texas to its first conference title since 1986 and an appearance in the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). He pioneered the Mean Green to the third best turnaround in Division I and best among all first-year head coaches with a 23-9 record.
He was named American Conference Coach of the Year and set single-season program records for regular season wins (23), conference wins (13), points per game (74.3), field goal percentage (46.3) and total points scored (2,379). His very first game as head coach also saw the Mean Green set a school record for points in a 117-42 victory over UNT Dallas in the season opener.
The Mean Green then built off that success during the 2024-25 campaign, setting program records for total wins, conference wins and home wins for the second consecutive season. North Texas posted an impressive 25-9 record on the season and went 15-3 in league play, good for a second-place finish in the regular season standings. Burton’s squad continued its success at the Super Pit with a 16-1 home record, including an unbeaten conference slate that eventually stretched to a program-record 13 straight conference home victories.
Burton once again led UNT back the postseason, earning a berth in the WNIT. There, it advanced to the Round of 16 after capturing the program’s first ever win in the tournament with a 78-67 triumph over UT Arlington.
Under Burton, North Texas has accumulated 14 postseason honors from the American Conference. That includes six All-Conference selections, which is tied for most in the league during that span, and four individual award winners. Nestor and Proctor were UNT’s most recent All-Conference selections in 2026, while Tommisha Lampkin was named to the First Team in each of the two previous years.
The all-time winningest coach in TAMUC history, Burton’s Commerce teams produced five All-Americans, three Lone Star Conference Player of the Year honorees, one South Central Region Player of the Year, three all-region players, 25 all-conference selections and five all-defensive picks. In total, Burton went 171-90 in nine seasons at TAMUC with four bids to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
In his final year at TAMUC, Burton guided the program through its first season transitioning to Division I competition. The Lions went 10-8 throughout league play in the Southland Conference before reaching the semifinals of the conference tournament.
Burton led the Lions to a program-best ranking of No. 2 in the WBCA poll and the top spot in the D2SIDA rankings during the 2021-22 season. The Lions eventually played in the LSC Championship for the third year in a row and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight time. His squad won 27 games that season, the second most in program history, and beat the Colorado School of Mines to advance to a Regional Semifinal in the NCAA Tournament.
During the shortened 2020-21 campaign, the Lions posted a 14-4 record and were ranked in the top 25 all season, won the LSC North Division title and earned their first NCAA Tournament win in over a decade. Future Mean Green stars Dyani Robinson and DesiRay Kernal were named Honorable Mention All-Americans by the WBCA after the season.
Commerce’s most successful season during the Burton era was 2019-20, when it tied the program record for wins with a 28-3 record and qualified for the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back years for the first time ever. Burton was named Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year and his team set program records for wins in a season (28), conference wins (20), consecutive wins (25), scoring margin (+18.4) and scoring defense (56.8). TAMUC won its first 25 games that year and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament before it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first five seasons of Burton’s tenure at Commerce showed steady improvement with win totals of 14, 16, 20, 18 and 20. The 20 victories in 2017 and 2019 marked the just the second and third 20-win seasons in program history.
In 12 total seasons a head coach, Burton was won 66% of his games with a 238-121 record and 70% of conference play matchups at 149-65.
A native of Plano, Texas, Burton joined TAMUC for the 2014-15 season following a two-year stint as a men’s basketball assistant coach at Texas State and one year as head boys coach at McKinney Boyd High School. Prior to that, he served as an assistant men’s coach and later associate head coach for the TAMUC men’s program from 2007 to 2011.
Burton earned a BA in Business Administration and Management from Austin College in 2007 and an MBA from Texas A&M-Commerce two years later. He is married to the former Alexyndra Guiton, and the couple has two children, Braylon and Jalen.
Jason Burton Year-By-Year Coaching Record
CAREER (12 seasons): 238-122
UNT (3 seasons): 67-32
COACHING HISTORY
2023-Present: UNT, Head Coach
2014-23: Texas A&M–Commerce, Head Coach
2013-14: McKinney Boyd High School, Head Boys’ Basketball Coach
2011-13: Texas State, Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
2009-11: Texas A&M–Commerce, Associate Head Men’s Basketball Coach
2007-09: Texas A&M–Commerce, Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
