After leading the Chino Hills High School boys basketball team to a 35-0 record and No. 1 national ranking, head coach Steve Baik has resigned.

This was Baik’s ninth year with the program, the last six as head coach. The showing by the Huskies this season netted him Naismith National Coach of the Year honors as well as USA Today Coach of the Year accolades.

Baik, 37, cited his family as the biggest factor in his decision. He and his wife, Grace, have two sons, ages 4 and 9 months.

“I have one going to kindergarten this year and it just kind of sunk in,” he said. “These are precious years I can’t go back and I want to be there more for them. I want to make the most of this time.”

Baik, who lives in Pasadena, says he’ll finish out the school year as a physical education teacher at Chino Hills but will seek a teaching-coaching job closer to home.

He considered moving to Chino Hills but his extended family is in the Pasadena-Arcadia area.

“My wife’s heart is there and I don’t think that would be fair to her,” he said.

The news will surely stun basketball enthusiasts around the nation. The Huskies are coming off a national championship run that ranks them among the best high school teams ever assembled.

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The Huskies won eight playoff games by an average margin of 29 points. Their 70-50 victory over Concord De La Salle in the Open Division state championship game in Sacramento was their closest contest.

Among those wins was a 48-point win over perennial national title contender Mater Dei, which had been ranked as high as sixth in the country.

Over the course of the season Chino Hills won 11 games against teams that were nationally ranked, the most noteworthy over Montverde Academy. The Florida school had won three of the last four national championships and was ranked No. 1 this season before losing to the Huskies in a quarterfinal game in the City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Florida. Chino Hills went on to win the tournament.

The Huskies beat teams from nine states, with two wins over teams that won their state championship and two others over teams that were a state runner-up.

Another factor that makes the resignation surprising is that virtually the entire team will be returning. The only senior on the team is the much heralded Lonzo Ball, named national player of the year by four media outlets. He’s headed to UCLA.

The rest of the starting core includes the other two Ball brothers — junior LiAngelo and freshman LaMelo. The other two starters are freshman Onyeka Okongwu and junior Eli Scott, both of whom have multiple Division I offers already.

“The timing is bad,” Baik said. “I wish this was three years later so I would have had a chance to see all these players through the end of their career. Part of me also would like the challenge of trying to do it again because we know there are naysayers out there.”

Baik began coaching in 2001 as an assistant at Hercules (Calif.). He became a head coach for the first time at Muir High School in Pasadena. He is a graduate of Arcadia High School and Westmont College where he excelled at point guard.

He has recommended his assistant of two seasons, Stephan Gilling, who has a sports training business and coaches club basketball, as his successor. Gilling is a graduate of Ayala High School and lives in Chino Hills.

Baik’s last Huskies team will always hold a special place in his heart.

“It really was a magical run,” he said. “There were a lot of great memories and it was wonderful to be a part of it. It was a great way to go out.”

The resignation of Baik is the latest in a line of successful coaches leaving their positions at the school. Football coach Matt Bechtel resigned in December after leading his team to a league title and the CIF semifinals. He was the Daily Bulletin’s Inland Valley Coach of the Year.

Volleyball coach Dana Buzzerio also resigned in the fall after the season ended.

Baseball coach Kyle Billingsley was fired two years ago, just days after being named Coach of the Year.