James Jones (basketball, born 1964)
American college basketball coach (born 1964) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Fitzgerald Jones[1] (born February 20, 1964) is an American men's college basketball coach who is the head coach at Yale University.
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Yale |
Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 396–311 (.560) |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1964-02-20) February 20, 1964 (age 60) Long Island, New York, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1982–1986 | Albany |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1990–1995 | Albany (assistant) |
1995–1997 | Yale (assistant) |
1997–1999 | Ohio (assistant) |
1999–present | Yale |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 396–311 (.560) |
Tournaments | 2–4 (NCAA Division I) 1–2 (NIT) 4–2 (CIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
6 Ivy League regular season (2002, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023) 3 Ivy League tournament (2019, 2022, 2024) | |
Awards | |
Hugh Durham Award (2016) Ben Jobe Award (2019) 4× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016, 2020, 2023) | |
Born on Long Island, Jones played college basketball at SUNY Albany and worked as a sales executive for NCR Corporation before beginning his coaching career.[2] Jones succeeded Dick Kuchen as the 22nd men's basketball head coach of Yale University on April 27, 1999.[3] On March 17, 2016, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fifth-seeded Baylor University Bears in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.[4] On March 22, 2024, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fourth-seeded Auburn University Tigers in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Five of Jones' assistants have gone on to become head coaches: Ted Hotaling (University of New Haven), Rob Senderoff (Kent State University), Isaiah Cavaco (Oberlin College), Mark Sembrowich (Academy of Art University), and Mark Gilbride (Clarkson University).[5]
Jones was inducted into New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015, is a three-time Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016, and 2020), and has been named the NABC District 13 Coach of the Year three times.[6]
His brother, Joe Jones, is the current men's basketball head coach at Boston University and was previously the men's basketball head coach at Columbia University.