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Leonard Hamilton

Leonard Hamilton
Leonard Hamilton 2013.jpg
Hamilton in 2013
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Florida State
Conference ACC
Record 289–188
Biographical details
Born (1948-08-04) August 4, 1948 (age 68)
Gastonia, North Carolina
Playing career
1966–1968 Gaston CC
1969–1971 Tennessee-Martin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1971–1974 Austin Peay (asst.)
1974–1986 Kentucky (asst.)
1986–1990 Oklahoma State
1990–2000 Miami (Florida)
2000–2001 Washington Wizards
2002–present Florida State
Head coaching record
Overall 498–398
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Big East regular season championship (2000)
ACC Tournament championship (2012)
Awards
UPI National Coach of the Year (1995)
2× Big East Coach of the Year (1995, 1999)
ACC Coach of the Year (2009, 2012)

Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards. In his 23 years as a collegiate head coach, his teams have qualified for seven NCAA tournaments and eight NITs, highlighted by appearances in the NCAA Tournament's "Sweet Sixteen" in 2000 (with Miami) and 2011 (with Florida State). While with the NBA's Wizards his team posted a 19–63 record during his sole season with the franchise in 2000–01.

Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Hamilton is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. His brother, Ray Jones, coaches a minor league team.

Hamilton was an assistant coach and associate head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1974 to 1986 under then head coach Joe B. Hall. Hamilton was on the staffs of the Kentucky teams that finished as the NCAA runner up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship and went to the 1984 Final Four.

Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10, 2009, and a second time in 2012. Hamilton is the first coach to be named coach of the year in both the Big East and ACC.

      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


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