Jeff Capel III
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| Date of birth | February 12, 1975 | |
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| Sport | Basketball | |
| College | University of Oklahoma | |
| Title | Head coach | |
| Record with Team | 6-2 | |
| Overall Record | 85-43 | |
| School as a player | ||
| 1993-1997 | Duke University | |
| Position | Guard | |
| Schools as a coach | ||
| 2006-present 2002-2006 |
University of Oklahoma Virginia Commonwealth |
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Felton Jeff Capel III (born February 12, 1975) is a former college basketball player at Duke University and the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Oklahoma.
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[edit] Youth
Capel is from a basketball family. His father is basketball coach Jeff Capel II, and his younger brother Jason played basketball at Duke's biggest rival, the University of North Carolina. As a senior at South View High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Jeff led his team to the 1993 state championship. He also set school career records in points (2,066), rebounds (668), and assists (663).
[edit] College Career
While at Duke University (1993-1997), he earned a starting position as a freshman and was a starting guard for four years. On February 2, 1995 in the regular season game played at home against UNC, with Duke trailing 95-92 at the end of the first overtime, Capel hit a running 40-foot shot at the buzzer which sent the game into double overtime. Although Duke lost the game 102-100, Capel's shot was hailed as one of the most memorable plays in Duke basketball history, and it was nominated for an ESPY Award for College Basketball Play of the Year.
Capel's college career was marked with success. During his years as a Blue Devil, he racked up an impressive stat sheet, including 1,601 points, 433 assists, and 220 three-point field goals. He finished his career among Duke's all-time Top 10 in minutes played, three-point field goal percentages, three-point field goals, and assists.
[edit] Professional Career
Following his graduation from Duke, Capel played professional basketball for three years, playing in France and the CBA. Capel was also drafted in 1997 by the Raleigh Cougars of the USBL.
[edit] Coaching Career
He began his coaching career serving as an assistant coach under his father, Jeff Capel II, at Old Dominion University for the 2000-2001 season. In 2001, he joined the coaching staff of Virginia Commonwealth University as an assistant. He was promoted to head coach of the Rams for the 2002-2003 season--making him, at the time, the youngest head coach in Division I men's college basketball (27 years old).
In his four years as head coach at VCU, Capel guided his team to a record number of wins (79) and the highest winning percentage (.658) of any Division I program in the state of Virginia. Following the 2003-04 season, Capel was named both the Richmond Times-Dispatch and VaSID state Coach of the Year after leading the Rams to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1996. Coaching highlights include a near-upset of Wake Forest University in the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Surprisingly, one of his toughest opponents was the division II cross - town rival, Virginia Union University. Capel's Rams lost two years in a row to the "panthers" on VCU's home court.
In 2005, Capel was named an assistant coach in the USA Men’s World University Games Team, joining then Manhattan head coach Bobby Gonzalez in assisting Villanova head coach Jay Wright. The United States won the gold medal in Izmir, Turkey, in August.
On April 11, 2006, Capel was named the head coach of the University of Oklahoma, succeeding Kelvin Sampson. Though the Sooner Nation as a whole greeted Capel's hiring with optimism, one notable downside of the coaching change emerged--Sampson's departure caused three of the players who had signed with OU (once considered a top 5 recruiting class) to rethink each's decision to attend OU.
[edit] Personal life
Capel is married to fellow Duke alumna Kanika Réale Blue. They wed in 2003. Capel recently revealed that the couple is expecting their first child, due in June, 2007.
| Preceded by: Kelvin Sampson |
Oklahoma Sooners Head Basketball Coaches 2006–Current |
Succeeded by: Current |
[edit] External links
- "It has been 10 years since Capel's bomb" - from The Daily News (Jacksonville, NC), about "The Jeff Capel shot"
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Capel III, Jeff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Capel III, Felton Jeff (real name) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Basketball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1975 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | |
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