Reggie Witherspoon (basketball coach)
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Canisius |
| Conference | MAAC |
| Record | 18–16 (.529) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 21, 1961 Buffalo, New York |
| Alma mater | Empire State College |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984–1992 | Sweet Home HS (asst.) |
| 1992–1997 | Sweet Home HS |
| 1997–1999 | Erie CC |
| 1999–2013 | Buffalo |
| 2014–2015 | Alabama (asst.) |
| 2015–2016 | Chattanooga (asst.) |
| 2016–present | Canisius |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 258–257 (.501) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| MAC East Division regular season (2009) | |
Phillip Reginald "Reggie" Witherspoon (born February 21, 1961) is the head coach of the Canisius College men's basketball team and the former head coach of the University at Buffalo men's college basketball team. He was fired after the 2012-13 season. He was the head coach at Erie Community College, and head coach and assistant coach at Sweet Home High School before he was hired as the interim head coach at Buffalo in December 1999. Witherspoon was named full-time head coach on March 10, 2000. He was the first African American named head coach of a varsity sports team in any Western New York suburban school district. Witherspoon served one season as an assistant at Alabama under head coach Anthony Grant. In 2015, Witherspoon was let go by Alabama when Grant was replaced by Avery Johnson. He was subsequently named as an assistant on Matt McCall's staff at UT-Chattanooga.
In May 2016, Witherspoon was hired to replace the retiring Jim Baron at Canisius College.
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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