Jeremy Cox

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Jeremy Cox is an American basketball coach and is currently an assistant coach under Billy Gillispie at the University of Kentucky. He was previously the head coach at University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, where he was named the NJCAA Coach of the Year in 2006. He was also an assistant at Texas A&M under Gillispie during the 2006-07 season.

He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at the University of Wyoming (1991-92) and later was an assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio for four seasons (1993-97). In eight years as a head coach, Cox’s teams compiled a 197-62 record.

In the 2006 season, UAFS was the unanimous preseason No. 1-ranked team in the nation for the first time in recent history and won its first NJCAA Region II championship since 2002 and its first national championship since 1981.

Cox graduated cum laude in 1991 from Mesa State College (Colo.) and received his master’s degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy (Ala.) in 1999.