James Whitford

James Whitford
Current position
Sport(s)	Basketball
Title	Head coach
Team	Ball State
Record	31–58 (.348)
Biographical details
Born	(1971-07-23) July 23, 1971
Alma mater	Wisconsin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–2005	Miami (Ohio) (asst.)
2005–2009	Xavier (asst.)
2009–2011	Arizona (asst.)
2011–2013	Arizona (assoc. HC)
2013–present	Ball State
Head coaching record
Overall	31–58 (.348)

James Whitford (born July 23, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball program. Before he was hired at Ball State Whitford served as an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio), Xavier, and Arizona.

Coaching career

While enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Whitford spent three seasons as a student manager for the Badgers men's basketball team. He graduated with a bachelors in political science in 1994.^[1]

Whitford's first professional coaching experience was with the Miami RedHawks men's basketball program. Starting as an administrative assistant 1994, he became an assistant coach in 1997 and advanced to top assistant in 1998.^[2]

In 2005 Whitford left Miami for Xavier, where he spent four seasons under head coach Sean Miller before following Miller to Arizona in April 2009.^[3] After his first two seasons at Arizona Whitford was promoted to associate head coach, a position he held for another two years before taking the head coaching position at Ball State in April 2013.^[1]^[4]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ball State Cardinals (Mid-American Conference) (2013–present)
2013–14	Ball State	5–25	2–16	6th (West)
2014–15	Ball State	7–23	2–16	6th (West)
2015–16	Ball State	21–14	10–8	T–1st (West)	CIT Quarterfinals
Ball State:		31–58 (.348)	13–37 (.260)
Total:		31–58 (.341)
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

1 2 "James Whitford Profile". The University of Arizona Wildcats Official Athletic Site. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
↑ "Miami Redhawk assistant joins Xavier". Xavier University. June 3, 2005.
↑ Rubenstein, Alan (April 11, 2009). "Sean Miller Adds Two Xavier Assistants to His Arizona Staff". Bleacher Report.
↑ Rosenblatt, Zach (April 8, 2013). "Arizona basketball assistant head coach Whitford pursues head coach opportunity at Ball State". Arizona Daily Wildcat.

External links

James Whitford's biography

Ball State Cardinals men's basketball head coaches

Frank Graham (1920–1921)
Paul "Billy" Williams (1921–1925)
Paul B. Parker (1925–1929)
Paul B. Parker & Paul "Billy" Williams (1929–1930)
Branch McCracken (1930–1938)
Pete Phillips (1938–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Pete Phillips (1944–1948)
Dick Stealey (1948–1952)
Bob Primmer (1952–1954)
Jim Hinga (1954–1968)
Bud Getchell (1968–1972)
Jim Holstein (1972–1977)
Steve Yoder (1977–1982)
Al Brown (1982–1987)
Rick Majerus (1987–1989)
Dick Hunsaker (1989–1993)
Ray McCallum (1993–2000)
Tim Buckley (2000–2006)
Ronny Thompson (2006–2007)
Billy Taylor (2007–2013)
James Whitford (2013– )

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Mid-American Conference

East Division	Keith Dambrot (Akron) Michael Huger (Bowling Green) Nate Oats (Buffalo) Rob Senderoff (Kent State) John Cooper (Miami) Saul Phillips (Ohio)

West Division	James Whitford (Ball State) Keno Davis (Central Michigan) Rob Murphy (Eastern Michigan) Mark Montgomery (Northern Illinois) Tod Kowalczyk (Toledo) Steve Hawkins (Western Michigan)

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