James Jones (basketball coach)

James Jones
Current position
Sport(s)	Basketball
Title	Head coach
Team	Yale
Conference	Ivy League
Biographical details
Born	(1964-02-20) February 20, 1964 Long Island, New York
Playing career
1982–1986	Albany
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1990–1995	Albany (asst.)
1995–1997	Yale (asst.)
1997–1999	Ohio (asst.)
1999–present	Yale
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Ivy League championship (2016)
Awards
2× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016) Hugh Durham Award (2016)

James Fitzgerald Jones (born February 20, 1964) is an American college basketball coach and the current basketball coach at Yale University.^[1]

The Long Island, New York native succeeded Dick Kuchen as 22nd head men's basketball coach of Yale University on April 27, 1999.^[2] On March 17, 2016, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fifth-seeded Baylor University Bears in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.^[3]

His brother Joe Jones is the current head men's basketball coach at Boston University and was previously the head men's basketball coach at Columbia University.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Yale Bulldogs (Ivy League) (1999–present)
1999–00	Yale	7–20	5–9	5th
2000–01	Yale	10–17	7–7	4th
2001–02	Yale	21–11	11–3	T–1st	NIT Second Round
2002–03	Yale	14–13	8–6	4th
2003–04	Yale	12–15	7–7	4th
2004–05	Yale	11–16	7–7	3rd
2005–06	Yale	15–14	7–7	4th
2006–07	Yale	14–13	10–4	2nd
2007–08	Yale	13–15	7–7	4th
2008–09	Yale	13–15	8–6	2nd
2009–10	Yale	12–19	6–8	4th
2010–11	Yale	15–13	8–6	3rd
2011–12	Yale	19–10	9–5	4th	CIT First Round
2012–13	Yale	14–17	8–6	3rd
2013–14	Yale	19–14	9–5	2nd	CIT Runner-Up
2014–15	Yale	22–10	11–3	T–1st
2015–16	Yale	23–7	13–1	1st	NCAA Second Round
Yale:		237–238 (.499)	128–96
Total:		237–238 (.499)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

↑ Cavanaugh, Jack (22 February 2002). "BASKETBALL; An Unlikely Ivy Crown Is Within Yale's Reach". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
↑ "Bulldogs name new coaches". Yale Bulletin & Calendar. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
↑ O'Neil, Dana. "Yale earns tourney's first upset following perfect Cinderella script". ESPN. Retrieved 3/17/2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

"Player Bio: James Jones – Men's Basketball" at Yale University Bulldogs

Yale Bulldogs men's basketball head coaches

Henry S. Anderson (1895–1898)
No coach (1898–1902)
Yale Murphy (1902–1903)
Unknown (1903–1906)
Billy Lush (1906–1911)
R. B. Hyatt (1911–1912)
Pop Foster (1912–1913)
Haskell Noyes (1913–1914)
Robert Stowe (1914–1916)
A. Bernie Tommers (1916–1917)
Walter Mace (1917–1919)
Albert Sharpe (1919–1921)
Orson Kinney (1921–1922)
J. J. Fogarty (1922–1925)
George Taylor (1925–1928)
Elmer Ripley (1928–1935)
Ken Loeffler (1935–1942)
Red Rolfe (1942–1946)
Ivy Williamson (1946–1947)
Howard Hobson (1947–1956)
Joe Vancisin (1956–1975)
Ray Carazo (1975–1982)
Tom Brennan (1982–1986)
Dick Kuchen (1986–1999)
James Jones (1999– )

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Ivy League

Mike Martin (Brown) Jim Engles (Columbia) Brian Earl (Cornell) David McLaughlin (Dartmouth) Tommy Amaker (Harvard) Steve Donahue (Penn) Mitch Henderson (Princeton) James Jones (Yale)

Hugh Durham Award winners

2005: Thomason 2006: Flannery 2007: Marshall 2008: Davis 2009: Bozeman 2010: Young 2011: Byrd 2012: Payne 2013: Kaspar 2014: Jasick 2015: Katz 2016: Jones

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