Ray Harper
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Jacksonville State |
| Conference | OVC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 11, 1961 Greenville, Kentucky |
| Playing career | |
| 1980–1982 | Texas |
| 1983–1985 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1989 | Kentucky Wesleyan (asst.) |
| 1989–1996 | Kentucky Wesleyan (assoc. HC) |
| 1996–2005 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
| 2005–2008 | Oklahoma City |
| 2009–2012 | Western Kentucky (asst.) |
| 2012–2016 | Western Kentucky |
| 2016–present | Jacksonville State |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× NCAA Men's Division II Tournament (1999, 2001) 2× NAIA Men's Division I Tournament (2007, 2008) 2× Sun Belt Tournament championship (2012, 2013) OVC Tournament championship (2017) |
|
| Awards | |
| 7× Division II National Coach of the Year | |
Lilburn Ray Harper Jr. (born October 11, 1961) is an American college basketball coach, currently head coach for Jacksonville State University. Previously, he was head coach at Oklahoma City University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, and Western Kentucky University. At Kentucky Wesleyan Harper compiled a 242–45 win-loss record.
He has been named the Division II National Coach of the Year seven times and won two national titles at Kentucky Wesleyan in 1999 and 2001.
Harper was named interim head coach at Western Kentucky on January 6, 2012 after Ken McDonald was fired. He was named permanent head coach on February 19, 2012 by then-athletic director Ross Bjork. He resigned from the position on March 17, 2016. Harper was subsequently hired at Jacksonville State on April 6, 2016, where he took the 2016-17 team to the school's first NCAA appearance.
Born in Greenville, Kentucky and a native of Bremen, Kentucky, Harper played collegiately at the University of Texas as a freshman and at Kentucky Wesleyan, during his sophomore-senior seasons, where he was named third team NABC All-American as a senior in 1985.
He is married to Shannon Harper, a WKU alumna.
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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