Andy Kennedy (basketball)
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Ole Miss |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 234–139 (.627) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 13, 1968 Louisville, Mississippi |
| Playing career | |
| 1986–1987 | NC State |
| 1988–1991 | UAB |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–1995 | South Alabama (asst.) |
| 1996–2001 | UAB (asst.) |
| 2001–2005 | Cincinnati (asst.) |
| 2005–2006 | Cincinnati |
| 2006–present | Ole Miss |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 255–152 (.627) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2x SEC West Division championships (2007, 2010) SEC Tournament championship (2013) |
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| Awards | |
| SEC Coach of the Year (2007) | |
Andrew James Kennedy (born March 13, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Born in Louisville, Mississippi, Kennedy was a player in high school at both Winston Academy and Louisville High School. He was a 1986 Parade All-American. Kennedy went on to play for North Carolina State and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). On March 24, 2006, Kennedy was introduced as the Rebels' 20th head men's basketball coach. Kennedy is only the fifth coach in SEC history with 45 or more wins in his first two years joining Tubby Smith, Eddie Sutton, Bruce Pearl, and John Calipari. He is only the seventh coach in SEC history to guide his teams to 20+ wins in four of his first five seasons, as well as the only coach in Ole Miss history to produce 10 consecutive winning seasons.
Kennedy, a 6'7" forward, was a 1986 Parade All-American, as well as the Mississippi Player of the Year at Louisville High School (Mississippi)|Louisville High School. He started his collegiate career at North Carolina State where he was a member of Jim Valvano's 1987 Atlantic Coast Conference championship team. He then transferred to play for legendary coach Gene Bartow at UAB where he was a two-time all-conference performer who became the school's second all-time leading scorer with 1,787 points (18.8 ppg. career average) and still holds over 15 individual records.
After graduation, Kennedy played briefly for the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, though he never appeared in an official game for the franchise. He later began a three-year professional career abroad, playing in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Puerto Rico. Chronic knee problems brought his career to an early end. He had his second ACL tear and subsequently his fifth and final knee operation while playing in Puerto Rico and chose to retire as a player and transition into coaching.
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