Don DeVoe

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Don DeVoe was a college basketball coach at Florida, Navy, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, and Wyoming. Through his career, he led three teams to the NCAA tournament, and posted a career record of 510-383(.571).

At Virginia Tech, he led the Hokies to a NIT title as well as an NCAA tournament appearance in 1976.

From 1978 to 1989, he coached at Tennessee. Through his 11 seasons at Tennessee, he compiled a 204-137 record. He led Tennessee to its first ever Sweet Sixteen appearance, where they lost to number 1 seeded Notre Dame. In his final season, he led the Vols to a 19-11 record and an NCAA tournament appearance.

He has recently served as the head coach at Navy from 1992-2004. He led the Midshipmen to a 182-155 record with 5 Patriot League regular season titles, three Patriot League tournament titles, and 3 NCAA tournament appearances. He has also been named Patriot League Coach of the Year three times.

He is currently a member of the NIT selection committee. He played basketball at Ohio State. He was a member of the 1962 team which was runner-up in NCAA's. He was a teammate of Bobby Knight; he coached under him at Army and has been a friend of his for greater than forty years.[1] He and his wife Ana have two children, a son, Elliot and a daughter Analiese.

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