James Green (basketball)

James Green
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head Coach
Team Jacksonville State University
Conference NCAA Men's Division I
Record 0-0
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988-1990
1990-1992
1992-1994
1994-1996
1996-2004
2005-2008
2008
Idaho (asst.)
Texas A&M (asst.)
Alabama (asst.)
Iowa State (asst.)
Southern Miss
Mississippi Valley State
Jacksonville State
Head coaching record
Overall 167-160[1]
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2007 SWAC regular season crown
2008 SWAC Tournament title
Awards
1999-2000 Conference USA Coach of the Year
2006-07 SWAC Coach of the Year

James Green is a college basketball coach, currently the Head Coach at Jacksonville State University, in Jacksonville, Alabama.

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College Coaching career

Green has held posts as assistant coach at the University of Idaho, Texas A&M University-College Station, University of Alabama and Iowa State University.[2] In 1996 he moved on to the poisiton of head coach at The University of Southern Mississippi and later Mississippi Valley State University.[3]

JSU

Green interviewed for the head coaching vacancy (left behind by the non-renewal of past Head Coach, Mike LaPlante) on Friday April 18, 2008 in Jacksonville, Alabama. He took over a JSU Gamecock Program that had lost 20 or more games in 3 of the last 4 seasons and expected to take a slight hit due to APR Standards not being met (Scholarship Reduction). Green is the first black Head Coach of a Major Sport at Jacksonville State University.[4]

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