Paul Hewitt
Hewitt on the sidelines in 2006.
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
May 4, 1963 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Playing career | |
| 1982–1985 | St. John Fisher |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1988–1989 | C.W. Post (asst.) |
| 1989–1990 | USC (asst.) |
| 1990–1992 | Fordham (asst.) |
| 1992–1997 | Villanova (asst.) |
| 1997–2000 | Siena |
| 2000–2011 | Georgia Tech |
| 2011–2015 | George Mason |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 322–256 (.557) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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MAAC Tournament championship (1999) 2× MAAC regular season championship (1999, 2000) |
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| Awards | |
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ACC Coach of the Year (2001) MAAC Coach of the Year (2000) |
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Paul Harrington Hewitt (born May 4, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and George Mason University. He grew up in Westbury, New York.
After playing at St. John Fisher College, Hewitt coached the Siena College men's college basketball team for three years, from 1998 to 2000. He led Siena to their first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title game appearance, and coached Siena into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament.
Siena Success Raised Profile Tech's success under Hewitt came as no surprise. Prior to his arrival in Atlanta, he posted a 66–27 mark as the head coach at Siena. At the Loudonville, N.Y., school, Hewitt revived a program that had been dormant since the mid-90's and molded it into one of the best in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and among the best in the Northeast.
In three seasons at Siena, Hewitt developed one of the nation's highest scoring teams. Siena ranked third nationally in scoring each of his last two seasons there, and in three seasons the team averaged 85.6 points per game while shooting 38.1 percent from three-point range and 77.8 percent from the foul line.
Following a three-year stretch in which Siena won just 22 games, Hewitt guided a young Saints team to a 17–12 overall record in his first season, including a 10–8 mark in the MAAC and the school's first-ever berth in the MAAC Tournament title game. In his second year, Siena went 25–6 and earned the school's first-ever MAAC Tournament Championship and its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1989.
Hewitt guided the Saints to their first-ever outright conference regular-season title in 2000. Siena finished the season with a 24–9 overall mark and a MAAC-best 15–3 slate. He directed the Saints to their third consecutive MAAC Championship game appearance, and second consecutive postseason berth with a bid to the NIT.
Hewitt was head coach of the Georgia Tech men's college basketball team from 2000 to 2011. He was released in March 2011.
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