Hugh Durham
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 26, 1937 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Playing career | |
| 1956–1959 | Florida State |
| Position(s) | Point guard / Shooting guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1959–1966 | Florida State (asst.) |
| 1966–1978 | Florida State |
| 1978–1995 | Georgia |
| 1997–2005 | Jacksonville |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 634–430 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA championship runner-up (1972) 8× NCAA appearances (1968, 1972, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991) 7× NIT appearances (1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1995) Metro Conference regular season champion (1978) 2× SEC Tournament champions (1983) SEC regular season champions (1990) |
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| Awards | |
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Metro Conference Coach of the Year (1978) 4× SEC Coach of the Year (1981, 1986, 1987, 1990) Florida State University Hall of Fame (1980) Georgia Sports Hall of Fame (2009) Florida Sports Hall of Fame (1999) Kentucky High School Hall of Fame (1994) |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2016 |
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Hugh Nelson Durham (born October 26, 1937) is a retired American basketball coach. He was head coach at Florida State, Georgia, and Jacksonville. He is the only head coach to have led two different programs to their first Final Four appearances.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Durham was a highly recruited three sport star at Eastern High School. He was an all-state quarterback and all-region in basketball. He chose to play basketball in college and accepted a scholarship offer from Florida State University.
At Florida State University, Durham is one of the most prolific scorers in Seminole basketball history. He appears prominently in the Florida State record book as both a player and head coach. Durham was a guard for FSU head coach Bud Kennedy.
Over fifty years after his FSU career ended, Durham's career average of 18.9 points per game is still the ninth best in school history. His 21.9 points per game in 1958-59 remains the seventh best single season average in FSU history. On January 19, 1957 Durham scored 43 points against Stetson University. It is still the second-best single game scoring mark in school history. For his three-year varsity career, Durham scored 1,381 points. Durham played prior to college basketball adopting the three-point shot.
In 1999 Florida State renamed its Most Valuable Player award the "Hugh Durham Most Valuable Player" award in his honor.
In 1959, Durham graduated from Florida State with a B.A. in business administration. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. In 1961, he earned an M.B.A. from Florida State.
After Durham received his undergraduate degree from Florida State in 1959, FSU head coach Bud Kennedy hired him as an assistant coach. Durham served as Kennedy's assistant for seven seasons.
Prior to the 1966-67 season, Kennedy was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died shortly thereafter. Durham was elevated to head coach at Florida State at the age of 29. He is one of the youngest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history.
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