Bobby Cremins
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 4, 1947 The Bronx, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1967–1970 | South Carolina |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1971–1973 | Point Park (assistant) |
| 1973–1975 | South Carolina (assistant) |
| 1975–1981 | Appalachian State |
| 1981–2000 | Georgia Tech |
| 2006–2012 | College of Charleston |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 579–375 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 ACC Tournament (1985, 1990, 1993) 2 ACC regular season (1985, 1996) 1 SoCon Tournament (1979) 4 SoCon regular season (1978, 1979, 1981, 2011) |
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| Awards | |
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Naismith College Coach of the Year (1990) 3× ACC Coach of the Year (1983, 1985, 1996) 4× SoCon Coach of the Year (1976, 1978, 1981, 2011) |
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Bobby Cremins (born July 4, 1947) is a retired American college basketball coach, having formerly served as a head coach at Appalachian State, Georgia Tech, and, most recently, the College of Charleston.
Cremins attended the All Hallows High School in the Bronx, New York, where he was born to Irish immigrants. In 1966, he entered the University of South Carolina on a basketball scholarship, where he played under coach Frank McGuire. While Cremins was there, the South Carolina team won 61 games, with 17 losses, while Cremins was the starting point guard for three years for the Gamecocks. Cremins, known as "Cakes", was also the captain of South Carolina's 1969–70 team which went 25–3. He graduated from South Carolina in 1970 with a B.S. degree in marketing, before playing professional basketball for one year in Ecuador.
Cremins started his coaching career in 1971 as an assistant coach at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He next returned to South Carolina to become McGuire's assistant coach and to earn a M.S. degree in guidance and counseling in 1972.
At age 27, Cremins became one of the youngest NCAA Division I head coaches in history when he took charge of the basketball team at Appalachian State University. He inherited a program that had only won 22 games since joining Division I five years earlier, and had just come off the worst season in school history at 3-23. In his first year at Appalachian his team had a record of 13–14, but then they accumulated an 87–56 record over the next five seasons, with three Southern Conference regular season championships. The Mountaineers posted a 23–6 record, and received an NCAA Tournament slot in 1979 after sweeping the Southern Conference regular season and tournament titles.
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