Jason Burton

Biography

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 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 c

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