James Naismith Coaching Tree

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James Naismith was the inventor of the game of basketball while at the YMCA school in Springfield, Massachusetts and the firt basketball coach at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.

Phog Allen

Forrest C. "Phog" Allen who has been called the "Father of Basketball Coaching," played varsity basketball under Naismith from 1904 to 1907. It is through Doc Allen's fifty year Hall of Fame career that many of the future coaches who went on to have successful coaching careers of their own came were mentored at Kansas.

Charles T. Black

Charlie T. Black, played for Allen at KU in the 1920s and went on to coach at Nebraska from 1927–1932.

Willard Witte

Willard Witte played basketball at Nebraska from 1927–1930; coached at Wyoming Cowboys basketball from 1930–1939. His 1934 team was retroactively named National Champions.

John Bunn

John Bunn, is a member of the Hall of Fame as a contributor. Played for Kansas from 1917–1920 and coached at Stanford (1930–1938), Springfield (1946–1956) and Colorado State–Greeley (1956–1963).

Frosty Cox

Forrest B. "Frosty" Cox (January 22, 1908 – May 22, 1962) played under Allen at Kansas from 1928-1931. He was the head basketball coach at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1936 to 1950 and the University of Montana from 1955 to 1962, compiling a career record of 227–174. Cox led the Colorado Buffaloes to three NCAA Tournaments and two National Invitation Tournament including the 1942 NCAA Final Four and the 1940 NIT title.

Harry Simmons

Harry Simmons played basketball at Colorado from 1934–1938; coached basketball at Pueblo JC (later named Southern Colorado) from 1947-1980.

Howard Engleman

Howard Engleman was an assistant coach under Allen and temporarily held the title of head coach in 1947 for 14 games (going 8–6) after Allen was ordered to take a rest following the 13th game of the season. Engleman's record is not listed in this table as he was never officially a head coach at the university.

Dick Harp

Dick Harp played at Kansas from 1938 to 1940 and went on to become an assistant coach under Allen. When Allen was forced to retire after his 70th birthday, Harp took over the team staring with the 1956-57 season. There he coached Wilt Chamberlain to the 1957 Championship Game only to lose to Frank McGuire's Tar Heels.

Ted Owens

Ted Owens served as an assistant coach at KU under Harp in 1960, and was promoted to head coach when Harp resigned following the 1963–64 season.

Tad Boyle

Tad Boyle played at Kansas under Owens and Larry Brown. He has been the head coach for Colorado since 2010.

John Calipari

John Calipari was an associate assistant at Kansas under Ted Owens and Larry Brown. He has gone on to be head coach at the University of Massachusetts from 1988 to 1996, the NBA's New Jersey Nets from 1996 to 1999 and the University of Memphis from 2000 to 2009, and was the head coach of the Dominican Republic national team in 2011 and 2012. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (in 1996, 2008 and 2015), and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

Chuck Martin

Chuck Martin served as an assistant under Calipari at the University of Memphis. The Tigers reached the national championship game in the 2007–08 season, and set a single-season Division I record for most victories with 38. The previous year, Memphis went 33–4 and reached the Elite Eight. The Tigers also became the first team in the history of Conference USA to compile a perfect regular season while winning the conference tournament. Martin was head coach at Marist College, a position he held for five seasons.

Derek Kellogg

Derek Kellogg played for Calipari at UMass. He has coached at his alma mater and at Long Island University

Josh Pastner

Josh Pastner was an assistant under Calipari at Memphis. He replaced Calipari as head coach of Memphis Tigers men's basketball from 2009–2016 after Calipari stepped down. He has since coached at Georgia Tech

Gale Catlett

Gale Catlett was an assistant coach at Kansas from 1967–1971, and also an assistant coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky from 1971–1972. In 1972, Gale Catlett was named head coach of University of Cincinnati, succeeding Tay Baker. He coached there until 1978, when he took over the head coaching job at West Virginia where he remained until 2002.

Bob Hill

Bob Hill was an assistant at Kansas from 1979–1985; head coach for the New York Knicks (1986–1987), Indiana Pacers (1990-1993), San Antonio Spurs (1994–1996), Seattle SuperSonics (2005–2007)

Paul Mokeski

Paul Mokeski played at KU from 1975–1979. Mokeski was an assistant coach with the Fort Worth Flyers of the NBA D-League. In June 2007, he was hired by the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats as an assistant coach under Sam Vincent. He was let go at the end of the 2007-08 season, when Vincent was fired.

Mokeski was later hired as an assistant coach with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League. In September 2011, he became the head coach of the Reno Bighorns. In March 2013, he was relieved of his head coaching duties. He returned to the Vipers for one season before heading north to coach in the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada). In 2016, he was hired as the head coach of the Moncton Miracles, a team that was then being operated by the league. In 2017, the Miracles folded to make way for a new NBL Canada team called the Moncton Magic. NBL Canada commissioner, David Magley, then left the league to become president of a new league called North American Premier Basketball and announced that Mokeski would be one of the inaugural coaches when the league launched in 2018.

On August 16, 2018, Mokeski was named the commissioner of The Basketball League (TBL) for the 2019 season.

Dutch Lonborg

Hall of Fame coach Dutch Lonborg played at Kansas under W. O. Hamilton until his senior year when Allen resumed coaching at Kansas after his brief hiatus. Longborg coached at Northwestern from 1927 to 1950. There his 1930–31 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team was retroactively named National Champions.

Jerry Carle

Jerry Carle played at Northwestern from 1943–1944 and from 1946–1948. Coached at Colorado College from 1948–1951 and from 1978–1980.

Dick Klein

Dick Klein played basketball at Northwestern from 1939–1941; coached the Gary Ingots 1946–1947. Founder and general manager of the Chicago Bulls.

Ray Ragelis

Ray Ragelis played at Northwestern from 1948–1951. He went on to coach at Lake Forest College, and later served as an assistant coach at Northwestern University. After three years as assistant coach at Northwestern University, he became the head coach at Washington High School. Ragelis died on September 19, 1983, in West Side Veterans Hospital in East Chicago, Indiana.

Bob Voigts

Bob Voigts played basketball and football at Northwestern from 1936–1939; coached basketball at Illinois Wesleyan (1939–1941).

Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald was also a part of the 1922 and 1923 championship teams coached at Southwest Missouri State from 1925-1950.

Ralph Miller

Hall of famer Ralph Miller was also part of the 1940 National Runner-Up Kansas team with Engleman and Harp. As a head coach for 38 years at three universities: Wichita (now known as Wichita State), Iowa, and Oregon State. With an overall record of 657–382 (.632), his teams had losing records only three times. Prior to his final season, he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on May 3, 1988.

Lester Conner

Lester Conner played for Miller at Oregon State University. He played in the NBA for 15 years and has gone on to serve as an assistant to head coach Rick Pitino of the Boston Celtics in 1998. He has since been an assistant coach for Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks and Denver Nuggets.

Jimmy Rodgers

Jimmy Rodgers played for Miller at Iowa during the 1964-65 season; coached at North Dakota (1967–1970). He was an assistant in the NBA winning 5 championships with the Boston Celtics. Took over the Celtics as head coach from 1988 to 1990 and was head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves from 1991 to 1993.

Larry Bird

Larry Bird played on the Celtics; head coach of the Indiana Pacers (1997–2000)

Phil Jackson

Phil Jackson played at North Dakota from 1964–1967; longtime coach of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers winning 11 NBA championships.

Bill Cartwright

Bill Cartwright played on the Bulls through 1994; head coach of the Bulls from 2001 to 2003, assistant coach in the NBA for many years and head coach of Osaka Evessa in 2013

Steve Kerr

Steve Kerr played for the Bulls from 1998–2001; head coach of the Golden State Warriors since 2014 and won three championships there.

Pete Myers

Pete Myers played for the Chicago Bulls; assistant coach of the Bulls and the Golden State Warriors.

Luke Walton

Luke Walton played for the Lakers from 2003–2012; head coach of the Lakers from 2016 to 2019 and coach of the Sacramento Kings from 2019 to 2021

Dennis Johnson

Dennis Johnson played on the Celtics during Rodgers tenure. In 1993, he became an assistant coach for the Celtics, a position he held until 1997. After spending several years outside the limelight, he returned as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2000, and spent four seasons there. For 24 games toward the end of the 2002–03 season, Johnson served as interim head coach after the departure of Alvin Gentry. Johnson later worked as a scout for the Portland Trail Blazers, and in 2004 he was named head coach of the NBA Development League's Florida Flame. He became head coach of the NBADL's Austin Toros the following season, and held that position until his death two years later.

Kevin McHale

Kevin McHale played on the Celtics during Rodgers tenure; head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves (2005, 2008-2009) and the Houston Rockets(2011-2015).

Dick Schultz

Dick Schultz assistant coach for Miller at Iowa; coached there from 1970–1974 after Miller left for Oregon State

Gary Thompson

Gary Thompson played for Miller at Wichita and later went on to coach there both as an assistant 1957–1964 and as a head coach 1964–1971.

George E. Rody

George E. Rody was the captain of the 1921–22 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. He went on to coach two seasons at Oklahoma A&M. Despite having a losing record both years, his second year they went 5-3 in conference play, winning the Missouri Valley Conference that year. Oklahoma A&M went on three seasons later to hire Hall of Fame coach Henry Iba who coached there for 36 years and coached future hall of fame coach Eddie Sutton from 1958-1959. Iba won 2 NCAA Championships in addition to 655 games, 14 Missouri Valley Championships, and one Big Eight Championship. Rody moved to the Tulane Green Wave the for the 1931-1932 seasib and coached two years with a 6 and 10 record in 1931-32 and an 8 and 15 record in 1932-33.

Vernon Haynes

Vernon Haynes played basketball at Tulane from 1929–1932; coached basketball at Tulane from 1942–1945

Adolph Rupp

Four time NCAA champion Adolph Rupp played under Doc Allen on the 1922 and 1923 Kansas championship teams, He is ranked seventh in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching at the University of Kentucky. Rupp is also second among all men's college coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Mark Few. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969.

Bob Brannum

Bob Brannum attended the University of Kentucky and Michigan State before playing professional basketball. He later coached basketball at Norwich University, Kenyon College and Brandeis University, where he won a school-record 204 games.

Alex Groza

Alex Groza Played at Kentucky from 1945–1949. Coached at Bellarmine (1959–1966), the Kentucky Colonels (1970), and the San Diego Conquistadors (1974-1975)

Joe B. Hall

1978 NCAA championship coach Joe B. Hall played for Rupp at Kentucky during their 1949 championship run. Hall coached at Kentucky from 1972–1985 and is a member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame

Lynn Nance

Lynn Nance was an assistant coach to Joe B. Hall at Kentucky from 1974–1976. He went on to serve as head coach at Iowa State, Central Missouri State, Saint Mary's, Washington, and Southwest Baptist.

Jim Wooldridge

From 1982 to 1985, Jim Wooldridge was an assistant coach at Central Missouri State (now Central Missouri) under Lynn Nance. Wooldridge was head coach at Central Missouri State, Texas State, Louisiana Tech, Kansas State, and UC Riverside. After his coaching career, Wooldridge served as athletic director at UC Riverside and Riverside City College.

Cliff Hagan

Cliff Hagan played at Kentucky (1950–1954), coached the Dallas Chaparrals (1967–1970)

Dan Issel

Star player at Kentucky from 1967–1970, Issel coached the Denver Nuggets from 1992-1994 and again from 1999 to 2001

Ellis T. Johnson

Ellis T. Johnson coached Morehead State (1936–1943, 1947–1952) Marshall (1963–1969)

Paul McBrayer

Paul McBrayer coached Eastern Kentucky from 1946–1962

T. L. Plain

T. L. Plain was an assistant coach at Kentucky from 1969–1971, later coached at Utah State (1971–1973)

Mike Pratt

Mike Pratt played at Kentucky, coached at Charlotte

Frank Ramsay

Frank Ramsey played at Kentucky; coached the 1970-1971 Kentucky Colonels

Pat Riley

Pat Riley played College Basketball at Kentucky under Rupp from 1964–1967 and even has his jersey retired by the program. Riley has won five NBA championships as a head coach, including four with the Los Angeles Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s and one with the Heat in 2006. Riley is a ten-time NBA champion across his tenures as a player (1972), assistant coach (1980), head coach (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2006), and executive (2006, 2012, 2013).

Marc Iavaroni

Marc Iavaroni assistant coach at the Heat (1999–2002)

Kurt Rambis

Kurt Rambis played for Riley's Showtime Lakers. he has served as a Head coach for the Lakers (1994-2004,2013-2014), the [[Minnesota Timberwolves] (2009-2011) and the New York Knicks (2014-2018. he is currently an as a senior basketball adviser for the Lakers.

Byron Scott

Byron Scott played under Riley for the Lakers. He has coached for Sacramento Kings (1998-2000), New Jersey Nets (2000-2004), New Orleans Hornets (2004-2010), Cleveland Cavaliers (2010-2013), Los Angeles Lakers (2014–2016).

Erik Spoelstra

Erik Spoelstra served as assistant coach and director of scouting for the Heat from 2001 to 2008 under Riley, during which time the team won the 2006 NBA Finals. He was promoted to head coach in the 2008-09 season. Following the addition of free agents LeBron James and Chris Bosh in 2010, the Heat made four consecutive NBA Finals appearances (2011–2014) under Spoelstra, winning the championship in 2012 and 2013. Spoelstra made his fifth appearance in the NBA Finals as head coach in 2020.

Jeff Van Gundy

Jeff Van Gundy assistant coach under Riley at the Knicks from 1991–1995; head coach of New York Knicks (1996–2001), Houston Rockets (2003–2007)

Tom Thibodeau

Tom Thibodeau assistant coach of the Knicks (1996-2004); head coach of the Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks

Stan Van Gundy

Stan Van Gundy assistant coach under Riley at the Heat from 1995–2003; head coach of Orlando Magic (2007–2012), Detroit Pistons (2014–2018), [[ New Orleans Pelicans]] (2020-2021)

Larry Steele

Larry Steele at Kentucky from 1968–1971 coached theUniversity of Portland (1987–1994)

Guy Strong

Guy Strong played on the 1951 Kentucky Championship team. Coached Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers (1963–1967), Eastern Kentucky (1967–1973) and Oklahoma State (1973–1977)

Dean Smith

Legendary North Carolina head coach Dean Smith played under Allen during his 1952 NCAA championship season. is well known for the concept of the "Carolina Family," the idea that anyone associated with the program was entitled to the support of others. Many of his former players and coaching staff became successful basketball coaches and executives. Smith's coaching tree includes:

Larry Brown

Larry Brown, a former Smith player; former coach of the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, San Antonio Spurs, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Bobcats; winner of championships in both the NBA (Detroit Pistons) and college (Kansas). Current assistant at Memphis Tigers.

Bill Bayno

Bill Bayno was an assistant at Kansas under Brown, has coached at UNLV (1995–2000), and Loyola Marymount (2008–2009).

R. C. Buford

R.C. Buford a member of Brown's coaching staff at KU; currently CEO of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named general manager in 2002 after five seasons serving as team president. Buford is also the president of sports franchises for Spurs Sports & Entertainment. Buford has won the NBA Executive of the Year award twice, for the 2013–14 and 2015–16 seasons, before his promotion to CEO before the start of the 2019–20 season.

Maurice Cheeks

Maurice Cheeks was an assistant to Brown for the Philadelphia 76ers(1994–2001); head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers (2001–2005), 76ers (2005–2008) and Detroit Pistons (2013–2014).

Mark Freidinger

Mark Freidinger

Alvin Gentry

Alvin Gentry started as an assistant under Brown during the same 1986-1987 season along with Popovich. He went on to follow Brown as an assistant after brown accepted a position with the Spurs in 1988. Gentry has led five different NBA teams. He served as an interim head coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1994–95 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans.

Danny Manning

Danny Manning was an exemplary player under Brown, winning the 1988 tournament NCAA Tournament MOP. After 15 years in the NBA, Manning has been both an assistant coach under Bill Self and Mark Turgeon as well as head coach for Tulsa from 2012–2014, Wake Forest from 2014–2020 and has served as the Interim head coach forMaryland since Turgeon's departure.

Gregg Popovich

The 5 time NBA champion coach of the San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich got his first start as a volentary assiastant coach for Brown's 1986-1987 Kansas Team. Taking over as coach of the Spurs in 1996, Popovich is the longest tenured active coach in the NBA as well as all other major sports leagues in the United States. He is often called "Coach Pop" or simply "Pop". He is the winningest coach in NBA history, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches in NBA history.

Mike Budenholzer

Mike Budenholzer served as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs under Popovich from 1996-2013. He has since been a head coach for the Atlanta Hawks from 2013 to 2018 as well as the Milwaukee Bucks since 2018. He won a championship with the Bucks in 2021.

Brett Brown

Brett Brown assistant coach for the Spurs (2007–2013); coach of Philadelphia 76ers (2013-2020).

Mike Brown

Mike Brown assistant coach for the Spurs (2000–2003); coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers (2005–2010, 2013-2014), Los Angeles Lakers (2011–2012) and the Nigerian National Team (2020-present).

Dell Demps

Dell Demps played on the Spurs during the 1995–96 NBA season; assistant for the Utah Jazz since 2020.

Avery Johnson

Avery Johnson played for Popovich San Antonio Spurs (1991, 1992-1993, 1994–2001); coach of Dallas Mavericks (2005–2008), New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets (2010-2012), Alabama (2015–2019).

Doc Rivers

Doc Rivers played on the Spurs from (1994-1996); head coach of Orlando Magic (1999–2003), Boston Celtics (2004–2013), Los Angeles Clippers (2013-2020), Philadelphia 76ers (2020-present).

Monty Williams

Monty Williams played on the Spurs from (1996-1997); head coach of the Phoenix Suns since the 2019–20 NBA season.

Kevin Pritchard

Kevin Pritchard played college basketball for the University of Kansas, where, as a sophomore, he was the starting point guard on the Jayhawks team that defeated the Oklahoma Sooners for the 1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship. He has since served as a current executive, and a former player and coach, who is currently the president of basketball operations for the Indiana Pacers. Pritchard played 4 seasons in the NBA as a player, and was also the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Indiana Pacers.

John Robic

John Robic has been an assistant coach to Larry Brown's 1988 Kansas Jayhawks, briefly was a head coach for Youngstown State and has served as an assistant coach to John Calipari at UMass, Memphis and Kentucky including their 2012 championship run.

Bill Self

Bill Self started as an assistant under Brown in 1985 He is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 2003. During his 19 seasons as head coach, he has led the Jayhawks to 16 Big 12 regular season championships, including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships, some of which were shared (2005–2018). He has also led the Jayhawks to four NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012, 2018, 2022), the 2008 NCAA championship and 2022 NCAA championship. Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. At the end of the 2020–21 season, Self had the 19th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 6th among active head coaches. He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen.

Chase Buford

Chase Buford played at Kansas from 2007 to 2010; head coach of the Wisconsin Herd (2019–2021) and the Sydney Kings since 2021.

Jeremy Case

Jeremy Case played at Kansas from 2003 to 2008; assistant coach under Self since 2021.

Joe Dooley

Joe Dooley assistant coach at Kansas from 2003–2013; head coach at Florida Gulf coast(2013–2018) and East Carolina (2018–2022).

Jerrance Howard

Jerrance Howard played for Self at Illinois; assistant coach for Self at Kansas from 2013–2021 and at Texas since 2021.

Evan Manning

Evan Manning played at Kansas from 2012 to 2016; currently a graduate assistant at Gonzaga.

Tyler Self

Bill Self's son Tyler played at Kansas from 2012 to 2017; general manager of the NBA G League Austin Spurs.

Mark Turgeon

Mark Turgeon: Jacksonville State (1998–2000), Wichita State (2000–2007), Texas A&M (2007–2011), Maryland (2011–2021).

Mike Woodson

Mike Woodson assistant coach of the 76ers (2001–2003); head coach of the Atlanta Hawks (2004–2010), New York Knicks (2012–2014) and Indiana since 2021.

Scott Cherry

Scott Cherry, former Smith player and former women's assistant coach at Middle Tennessee State University. Former head coach at High Point University, also former assistant coach at Western Kentucky University and South Carolina.

Billy Cunningham

Billy Cunningham attended UNC from 1962–1965; coach of the 1983 NBA champion Philadelphia 76ers.

Hubert Davis

Hubert Davis attended UNC from 1988–1992; current head coach at North Carolina.

Matt Doherty

Matt Doherty, former Smith player (1980–1984). Former head coach at Notre Dame, North Carolina, Florida Atlantic University, and SMU; also a former assistant under Roy Williams at Kansas.

Butch Estes

George "Butch" Estes was a student assistant at UNC (1968–1971), head coach at Palm Beach State College (Lake Worth, FL).

Eddie Fogler

Eddie Fogler went to UNC (1967–1970) and served as an assistant coach there (1971–1986); National Coach of the Year at both Vanderbilt (1989–1993) and South Carolina (1993–2001), also former head coach at Wichita State University (1986–1989).

Phil Ford

Phil Ford UNC class of 1978, former assistant coach of the Charlotte Bobcats and UNC

Bill Guthridge

Bill Guthridge, Smith's former assistant coach (1967–1997) and former UNC head coach (1997–2000); National Coach of the Year at UNC.

Dave Hanners

Dave Hanners, former assistant coach of the Charlotte Bobcats, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks. Currently assistant coach of the New Orleans Pelicans.

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan attended UNC and is the current owner of the Charlotte Hornets.

George Karl

George Karl, a point guard under Smith (1970–1973), former head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers (1984–1986), Golden State Warriors (1986–1988), Real Madrid (1991–1992), Seattle SuperSonics (1992–1998), Milwaukee Bucks (1998–2003), Denver Nuggets (2005–2013) and Sacramento Kings (2015–2016).

John Kuester

John Kuester attended UNC (1973–1977), former head coach of the Detroit Pistons (2009-2011).

Mitch Kupchak

Mitch Kupchak was a Tarheel from 1972–1976, current general manager of the Charlotte Hornets

Jeff Lebo

Jeff Lebo went to UNC (1985–1989); former head coach at East Carolina (2010–2017), Tennessee Tech (1998–2002), Chattanooga (2002–2004), and Auburn (2004–2010). Current assistant for the Tar Heels.

Doug Moe

Doug Moe, former NBA coach (Denver Nuggets 1980–1990) and NBA Coach of the Year Award winner

Mike O'Koren

Mike O'Koren (UNC from 1976–1980); assistant head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers

Buzz Peterson

Buzz Peterson, previously head coach at UNC Wilmington, Coastal Carolina, Tennessee, Tulsa and Appalachian State; and director of player personnel with the Charlotte Hornets

Brian Reese

Brian Reese, current head coach at Georgian Court University.

King Rice

King Rice, current head coach at Monmouth; former assistant at Oregon, Illinois State, Providence and Vanderbilt University.

Tony Shaver

Tony Shaver, former head coach at the College of William & Mary.

Jerry Stackhouse

Jerry Stackhouse, played for Smith at UNC (1993–1995); former assistant coach of the Toronto Raptors and Memphis Grizzlies, current head coach at Vanderbilt.

Pat Sullivan

Pat Sullivan, former assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons. Director of recruiting for the Tar Heels.

Rasheed Wallace

Rasheed Wallace, former assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons, former head coach of Charles E. Jordan High School. Current assistant at Memphis Tigers.

Roy Williams

Roy Williams, former University of Kansas coach and North Carolina assistant, former North Carolina head coach. Several former players and assistant coaches of Williams have gone on to their own careers in coaching.

Jeff Boschee

Jeff Boschee played at Kansas under Roy; Missouri Southern (2014–2022), Pittsburg State Gorillas (2022-present).

Neil Dougherty

Neil Dougherty assistant coach at KU from 1995–2002; head coach at TCU (2002–2008).

Blake Flickner

Blake Flickner: Dallas Baptist (2006–present)

Jerry Green

Jerry Green: Oregon (1992–1997), Tennessee (1997–2001).

Jerod Haase

Jerod Haase played at Kansas from 1994–1997; coach of UAB (2012–2016), Stanford (2016–present)

C.B. McGrath

C.B. McGrath played at Kansas from 1994–1998; coach at UNC Wilmington (2017–2020).

Aaron Miles

Aaron Miles – Player development coach, Golden State Warriors, played at Kansas 2001–05

Ben Miller

Ben Miller: UNC Pembroke (2008–2019)

Wes Miller

Wes Miller played at North Carolina from 2004–2007; coach of UNC Greensboro (2011–2021), Cincinnati (2021–present).

Terry Nooner

Terry Nooner – Assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers, played at Kansas 1996–2000

Steve Robinson

Steve Robinson was an assistant at Kansas from 1988–1995; head coach of Tulsa (1995–1997), Florida State (1997–2002)

Kevin Stallings

Kevin Stallings assistant at Kansas from 1988–1993; head coach of Illinois State (1993-1999), Vanderbilt (1999-2016), Pittsburgh (2016-2018).

Jacque Vaughn

Jacque Vaughn played at Kansas (1993–1997); head coach of Orlando Magic (2012–2015), assistant and interim head coach of the Brooklyn Nets (2016-present).

Rex Walters

Rex Walters played at Kansas (1991–1993); head coach of Florida Atlantic (2006–2008), San Francisco (2008–2016).

Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina, current assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs, used to be Dean Smith's interpreter at his basketball clinics in Italy.

John McLendon

Hall of Famer John McLendon transferred to the University of Kansas from Kansas City Kansas Junior College, where he then learned the intricacies of basketball from the sport's inventor, Dr. James Naismith, who was the athletic director at the school. However, McLendon was not permitted to actually play college basketball, as the KU varsity team was segregated and would not suit up its first black player until 1951. John coached at historically black colleges Tennessee A&I from 1955-59 and Kentucky State from 1964-1966, as well as in the ABL Cleveland Pipers 1959-62, in addition to then NCAA Division II Cleveland State 1967–69 and in the American Basketball Association Denver Rockets

Michael Bernard

Michael Bernard was recruited by McLendon and played at Kentucky State under in 1966; was the head coach at North Carolina Central (1985–1991), Norfolk State (1991–1998), Fayetteville State (1998–2002), Shaw (2002–2005) and later the director of basketball operations at Delaware State from 2009–2012.

Floyd Theard

Floyd Theard played at Kentucky State from 1963–1967; later was a head coach at Kentucky State (1978–1980) and Denver (1980–1985)

Bumper Tormohlen

Bumper Tormohlen was a power forward for the Pipers; was the interim head coach for the Atlanta Hawks in 1976.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg's primarily sport was American football. He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College) (1890–1891) when Naismith was also attending. They became close friends and Naismith played on the football team and Stagg played on the basketball team. Naismith invited Stagg to play in the first public basketball game on March 12, 1892. The students defeated the faculty 5–1 and Stagg scored the only basket for the faculty. The Springfield Republican reported on the same: "Over 200 spectators crammed their necks over the gallery railing of the Christian Workers gymnasium while they watched the game of 'basket ball' between the teachers and the students. The most conspicuous figure on the floor was Stagg in the blue Yale uniform who managed to have a hand in every scrimmage." Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport. This five-man concept allowed his 10 (later 11) man football team the ability to compete with each other and to stay in shape over the winter. Stagg was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959. Stagg was later the head coach for the Chicago Maroons when they were still a part of the Big Ten Conference. Chicago later left and now play under NCAA Division III. Joseph Raycroft was a previous coach for the Maroons and there Raycroft won three Helms National Championships in a row.

Art Badenoch

Art Badenoch played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1905; went on to also coach football and basketball at New Mexico A&M (1910–1913)

Hugo Bezdek

Hugo Bezdek played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1904-1905; went on to also coach football and basketball at Oregon (1906–1907, 1913–1917) and was the interim head coach at Penn State in 1919

Mark Catlin Sr.

Mark Catlin Sr. played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1903–1905; went on to also coach football and basketball at Lawrence (1909–1912)

Fritz Crisler

Fritz Crisler played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1919–1921; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Princeton (1932–1934)

Ivan Doseff

Ivan Doseff played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1907; went on to also coach football and basketball at Iowa State Normal (1919-1921) and [[Luther College (Iowa)#Athletics| Luther (IA)] (1921–1923)

Jesse Harper

Jesse Harper played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1905; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Wabash (1910–1913) and Notre Dame (1913–1918)

Ward Lambert

Hall of famer Ward Lambert played basketball at Wabash from 1909–1911; coached at Purdue (1916–1917, 1918–1946)

John Wooden

The 1932 Purdue team on which John Wooden played as a senior was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Poretta Power Poll. John Wooden was named All-Big Ten and All-Midwestern (1930–32) while at Purdue, and he was the first player ever to be named a three-time consensus All-American. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the AP award five times.

Frank Arnold

Frank Arnold assistant coach at UCLA from 1971–1975; head coach at BYU (1975–1983) and Hawaii (1985–1987).

Denny Crum

Denny Crum former player (1957-58) and assistant coach at UCLA from 1967–1971; head coach at Louisville from 1971–2001.

=Jerry Eaves=

Jerry Eaves played at Louisville (1978–1982) and assistant coach there from 1996–1999; North Carolina A&T (2003–2012) and Simmons College since 2015.

=Derek Smith=

Derek Smith played at Louisville (1978–1982); assistant coach for the Washington Bullets (1994–1996)

Gary Cunningham

Gary Cunningham assistant coach under Wooden from 1965–1975 and took over the mantel of head coach from 1977–1979. Athletic director at Western Orgegon State (1979–1981), Wyoming (1981–1986), Fresno State (1986–1995) and UC Santa Barbara (1995–2008)

John Ecker

John Ecker played at UCLA from 1968–1971; coached in Germany at Bonn (1994–1995)

Walt Hazzard

Walt Hazzard played at UCLA from 1961–1964; coached at Chapman (1982–1984) and then became head coach at UCLA (1984–1988)

Jack Hirsch

Jack Hirsch was Walt Hazzard's's top assistant starting at Compton College in 1980 for two years and Chapman College for another two. He followed Hazzard to UCLA in 1984. After Hazzard was fired by the school following the 1987–88 season, Hirsch was reassigned and finished his career at UCLA working as an administrative analyst in the assistant chancellor's office until 1990.

Steve Patterson

Steve Patterson played at UCLA (1968–1971); coached at Santa Rosa Junior College (1983–1984) and Arizona State (1985–1989).

Bill Sweek

Bill Sweek played at UCLA (1966–1969); coached internationally for Tunisia (1971–1972), Stade Français (1972–1975), Clermont UC (1976–1977), Le Mans (1977–1979), Hungary (1983–1984), AS Monaco (1985–1990) and Limoges CSP (1990–1991).

Kenny Washington

Kenny Washington played at UCLA (1963–1966); coached the women's team at UCLA (1974–1975).

Tony Hinkle

Tony Hinkle was a three sport athlete at Chicago, played basketball under Stagg the one year He coached in 1920-21, coached basketball at Butler from (1926–1942, 1945–1970)

Bob Dietz

Bob Dietz played at Butler from 1938–1941; coached the Indianapolis Kautskys from 1946–1947 and later was an assistant coach for Hinkle at Butler

Norm Ellenberger

Norm Ellenberger played at Butler from 1952–1954; assistant coach for many teams, head coach of New Mexico (1972–1979)

Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper played at New Mexico (1976–1978); coaching jobs include leading the USC Women's team (2009-2013), Los Angeles Sparks (2000-2004) and Atlanta Dream (2014-2017) of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) to two championships and the Albuquerque Thunderbirds (2005-2007) to one NBA G League title. He has also been an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers (1994-1996) and the Denver Nuggets (2004-2005) in the NBA.

Charlie Harrison

Charlie Harrison assistant coach at New Mexico and took over in 1979 following the "Lobogate" scandal. He later coached at East Carolina from 1982–1987.

Billy Reid

Billy Reid played at New Mexico (1976–1977); coached at Laurinburg Institute (2005–2006), assistant coach at Rhode Island (2000–2001), San Francisco (2001–2004), Stony Brook (2004–2005)

Thomas Kelley

Thomas Kelley played football under Stagg at Chicago in (1906, 1908–1909); went on to also coach football and basketball at Muhlenberg (1912–1914) and Alabama (1916–1917)

Walter E. Marks

Walter E. Marks played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1924–1927; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Indiana State (1927-1931, 1933–1938)

Nelson Norgren

Nelson Norgren played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1910-14; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Utah (1914–1917) and at his alma mater Chicago (1922–1926, 1930)

Harlan Page

Harlan Page played football at Chicago. Walter Camp selected him as a second-team All-American at the end in 1908 and a third-team All-American at the same position in 1909.He served as the head basketball coach at the University of Chicago (1911–1920), Butler University (1920–1925) and the College of Idaho (1936–1938), compiling a career college basketball record of 269–140. In 1924, he coached Butler to the AAU title.

Raymond L. Quigley

Raymond L. Quigley played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1908; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Arizona (1912–1914)

Charles M. Rademacher

Charles M. Rademacher played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1909–1911; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Idaho (1915–1916)

Paul Stagg

Paul Stagg played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1929–1931; went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Moravian (1935–1937)

Herman Stegeman

Herman Stegeman played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1924–1927; went on to also coach football, baseball, Track and field and basketball at Monmouth (IL) (1916–1917) and Georgia (1919–1931)

Mysterious Walker

Frederick "Mysterious" Walker played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1904-1906, went on to also coach football, baseball and basketball at Utah Agricultural (1907–1908), Dartmouth (1917–1918), Rhode Island State (1918–1919), DePauw (1921–1922), Michigan Agricultural (1922–1924), Drury (1924–1926), Loyola (LA) (1926–1927), Texas (1927–1931) and Wheaton (IL) (1936–1940).

Horace Whiteside

Horace Whiteside ) played football under Stagg at Chicago from 1910–1912, went on to also coach football and basketball. He served as the head coach at Earlham College from 11914–1917.

Ralph H. Young

Ralph H. Young played football under Stagg at Chicago in 1910, went on to also coach football and basketball at DePauw (1915–1916) and Kalamazoo (1916–1923)

References

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