James Whitford

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James Whitford
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Ball State
Biographical details
Alma mater	Wisconsin (1994)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–1998 1998–2005 2005–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 2013–present	Miami (Ohio) (assistant) Miami (Ohio) (top assistant) Xavier (assistant) Arizona (assistant) Arizona (assoc. head) Ball State

James Whitford is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball program. Before he was hired at Ball State Whitford served as an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio), Xavier, and Arizona.

Coaching career

While enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Whitford spent three seasons as a student manager for the Badgers men's basketball team. He graduated with a bachelors in political science in 1994.^[1]

Whitford's first professional coaching experience was with the Miami RedHawks men's basketball program. Starting as an administrative assistant 1994, he became an assistant coach in 1997 and advanced to top assistant in 1998.^[2]

In 2005 Whitford left Miami for Xavier, where he spent four seasons under head coach Sean Miller before following Miller to Arizona in April 2009.^[3] After his first two seasons at Arizona Whitford was promoted to associate head coach, a position he held for another two years before taking the head coaching position at Ball State in April 2013.^[1]^[4]

Record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ball State (Mid-American Conference) (2013–2014)
2013–14	Ball State
Ball State:
Total:
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "James Whitford Profile". The University of Arizona Wildcats Official Athletic Site. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
↑ "Miami Redhawk assistant joins Xavier". Xavier University. June 3, 2005.
↑ Rubenstein, Alan (April 11, 2009). "Sean Miller Adds Two Xavier Assistants to His Arizona Staff". Bleacher Report.
↑ Rosenblatt, Zach (April 8, 2013). "Arizona basketball assistant head coach Whitford pursues head coach opportunity at Ball State". Arizona Daily Wildcat.

External links

James Whitford's biography

Ball State Cardinals men's basketball head coaches

Frank Graham (1920–1921)
Paul "Billy" Williams (1921–1925)
Paul B. Parker (1925–1929)
Paul B. Parker & Paul "Billy" Williams (1929–1930)
Branch McCracken (1930–1938)
Pete Phillips (1938–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Pete Phillips (1944–1948)
Dick Stealey (1948–1952)
Bob Primmer (1952–1954)
Jim Hinga (1954–1968)
Bud Getchell (1968–1972)
Jim Holstein (1972–1977)
Steve Yoder (1977–1982)
Al Brown (1982–1987)
Rick Majerus (1987–1989)
Dick Hunsaker (1989–1993)
Ray McCallum (1993–2000)
Tim Buckley (2000–2006)
Ronny Thompson (2006–2007)
Billy Taylor (2007–2013)
James Whitford (2013–)

v t e Current men's basketball head coaches of the Mid-American Conference

East Division	Keith Dambrot (Akron) Louis Orr (Bowling Green) Bobby Hurley (Buffalo) Rob Senderoff (Kent State) John Cooper (Miami) Jim Christian (Ohio)

West Division	James Whitford (Ball State) Keno Davis (Central Michigan) Rob Murphy (Eastern Michigan) Mark Montgomery (Northern Illinois) Tod Kowalczyk (Toledo) Steve Hawkins (Western Michigan)

Persondata
Name	Whitford, James
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball coach
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
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