Billy Kennedy (basketball coach)
Kennedy in 2009
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Texas A&M |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 111–80 (.581) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 2, 1964 Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1986 | Southeastern Louisiana (asst.) |
| 1986–1987 | New Orleans (asst.) |
| 1987–1988 | Wyoming (asst.) |
| 1988–1989 | Northwestern State (asst.) |
| 1989–1990 | Tulane (asst.) |
| 1990–1991 | Texas A&M (asst.) |
| 1991–1993 | Creighton (asst.) |
| 1993–1997 | California (asst.) |
| 1997–1999 | Centenary |
| 1999–2005 | Southeastern Louisiana |
| 2005–2006 | Miami (Florida) (asst.) |
| 2006–2011 | Murray State |
| 2011–present | Texas A&M |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 322–259 (.554) |
| Tournaments | 3–3 (NCAA) 1–1 (NIT) 1–1 (CBI) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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SEC regular season (2016) 2× OVC regular season (2010, 2011) OVC Tournament (2010) 2× Southland regular season (2004, 2005) Southland Tournament (2005) |
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| Awards | |
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SEC Coach of the Year (2016) 2× OVC Coach of the Year (2010, 2011) Southland Coach of the Year (2004) |
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William Joseph "Billy" Kennedy, Jr. (born February 2, 1964) is the head men's basketball coach at Texas A&M University. He took over the position vacated by Mark Turgeon in May 2011. He previously held the same position at Murray State University for five seasons.
Kennedy previously held the same position at Centenary and Southeastern Louisiana. He has served 13 seasons as a collegiate head coach and 13 as an assistant.
Kennedy is a 1986 graduate of Southeastern Louisiana and 1984 graduate of Delgado Community College in New Orleans. He played basketball and attended Holy Cross High School in New Orleans.
After serving 12 years as an assistant coach, including the previous four at California, Kennedy's first collegiate head coaching job came at Centenary. There, he took over a program that had won only 30 games in the previous three seasons. His first team won 10 games but his second improved to a 14-14 overall record and a 9-7 Trans America Athletic Conference mark, its best finish in five years.
Southeastern Louisiana hired Kennedy in 1999 and he steadily improved his alma mater, winning 10 games in his first season and doubling that total four seasons later, winning the Southland Conference regular-season championship. His sixth team went 24-9, the most wins in school history, and won both the conference regular-season and tournament titles. The Lions advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history, where it lost to Oklahoma State 63-50.
The Louisiana Sports Writers Association, the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 8) selected Kennedy coach of the year in 2004 and 2005.
Kennedy resigned from his position at Southeastern Louisiana to become the associate head coach at Miami.
After serving one season as an assistant at Miami, Kennedy was named Murray State's 14th men's basketball coach in 2006, taking over after Mick Cronin departed for Cincinnati.
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