Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Florida |
Conference | SEC |
Record | 48–24 (.667) |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Dunedin, Florida |
March 2, 1977
Playing career | |
1995–1999 | Ole Miss |
1999–2000 | New Mexico Slam |
2000 | England |
Position(s) | Point guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2000–2003 | Jacksonville State (asst.) |
2003–2004 | Jacksonville State (assoc. HC) |
2004–2011 | Ole Miss (asst.) |
2011–2015 | Louisiana Tech |
2015–present | Florida |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 149–64 (.700) |
Tournaments |
NIT: 7–4 NCAA: 3–1 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
WAC regular season championship (2013) 2× C-USA regular season championship (2014, 2015) |
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Awards | |
USBWA District VII Coach of the Year (2013) NABC District 6 Coach of the Year (2013) WAC Don Haskins Coach of the Year (2013) LABC Louisiana Major College Coach of the Year (2014) C-USA Gene Bartow Coach of the Year (2015) NABC District 11 Coach of the Year (2015) SEC Coach of the Year (2017) |
NIT: 7–4
Michael Emerson White (born March 2, 1977) is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators men's basketball team of the University of Florida. Prior to accepting the job at Florida, White was the head coach of the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of Louisiana Tech University for four seasons.
White was born to father, Kevin, and mother, Jane, in Dunedin, Florida. His father Kevin White currently serves as Director of Athletics at Duke University. As a result of his father's career path, the White family moved frequently throughout Michael's childhood. In 1995, White graduated from Jesuit High School in New Orleans. From 1995 to 1999, he attended the University of Mississippi on a basketball scholarship. After a brief stint playing basketball professionally, White returned to Ole Miss and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration in 2000. White is married to the former Kira Zschau, an All-SEC volleyball player at Ole Miss, who also has a law degree from the university. The couple has two daughters, Rylee and Maggie, twin boys, Collin and Keegan, and a son, Dillon.
White played at Ole Miss from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, White began his four-year collegiate career as a freshman guard for the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team. He became a starter in the eighth game of his freshman year and remained a starter for the remainder of his four years at Ole Miss. During White's college career, he had 370 assists, the 6th highest total in Ole Miss history. He also led his team to two SEC Western Division Titles, three consecutive NCAA Men's Basketball Tournaments (1997, 1998 and 1999), and the first NCAA Tournament victory in the history of Ole Miss. He played professional basketball with the IBL's New Mexico Slam and internationally in England.