Tubby Smith
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Memphis |
| Conference | The American |
| Record | 15–5 |
| Annual salary | $3.09 million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 30, 1951 Scotland, Maryland |
| Playing career | |
| 1969–1973 | High Point |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973–1977 | Great Mills HS |
| 1977–1979 | Hoke County HS |
| 1979–1986 | VCU (asst.) |
| 1986–1989 | South Carolina (asst.) |
| 1989–1991 | Kentucky (asst.) |
| 1991–1995 | Tulsa |
| 1995–1997 | Georgia |
| 1997–2007 | Kentucky |
| 2007–2013 | Minnesota |
| 2013–2016 | Texas Tech |
| 2016–present | Memphis |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 572–281 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1998) Regional Championship – Final Four (1998) 5× SEC regular season championships (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005) 5× SEC Tournament championships (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004) 2× MVC regular season championships (1994, 1995) |
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| Awards | |
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AP College Coach of the Year (2003) |
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AP College Coach of the Year (2003)
Naismith College Coach of the Year (2003)
NABC Coach of the Year (2003)
Henry Iba Award (2003)
Jim Phelan Award (2005)
2× MVC Coach of the Year (1994, 1995)
3× SEC Coach of the Year (1998, 2003, 2005)
Big 12 Coach of the Year (2016)
John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2016)
Sporting News National Coach of the Year (2016)
Orlando Henry "Tubby" Smith (born June 30, 1951) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's basketball head coach for the University of Memphis. Smith previously served in the same role at the University of Tulsa (1991-1995), the University of Georgia (1995-1997), the University of Kentucky (1997-2007), the University of Minnesota (2007-2013), and Texas Tech University (2013-2016). With Kentucky, he coached the Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA championship.
In his 25 plus years as a head coach, Smith has had 19 seasons of twenty or more wins. In 2005, he joined Roy Williams, Nolan Richardson, Denny Crum and Jim Boeheim as the only head coaches to win 365 games in 15 seasons or fewer. With Texas Tech's invitation to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, Smith became only the second coach in history to lead five different teams to the NCAA tournament.
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