Steve Donahue

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Steve Donahue
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Boston College
Biographical details
Born	(1962-05-21) May 21, 1962
Playing career
1980–1984	Ursinus
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984–1987 1987–1988 1988–1990 1990–2000 2000–2010 2010–present	Springfield HS (asst.) Monsignor Bonner HS (asst.) Philadelphia (asst.) Penn (asst.) Cornell Boston College

Steve Donahue (born May 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Boston College.

Background

A native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a former player at Ursinus College, Donahue previously served as head coach at Cornell University, an assistant coach at Penn, Philadelphia University, Monsignor Bonner High School and Springfield High School. He had been the head coach at Cornell from September 2000 until April 6, 2010.

Cornell

Cornell struggled early under Donahue, but he eventually turned the program around. A March 1, 2008 defeat of the Harvard Crimson gave Cornell the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988 and just the second title in program history.^[1] On March 6, 2009, with Princeton's loss to Columbia, Cornell clinched the Ivy League Championship for a second consecutive year. It was the first time in 50 years that any team other than Penn or Princeton had won consecutive Ivy League titles in basketball.

Exactly one year later on March 6, 2010, Donahue's Cornell team defeated the Brown Bears to clinch their third consecutive title and fourth in team history. This guaranteed an automatic bid for Cornell in the 2010 NCAA basketball tournament, in which Cornell was given a 12-seed in the East region. Cornell went on to win two games in the tournament, defeating 5-seed Temple and then 4-seed Wisconsin, both victories by double digit margins, to advance to the Sweet 16, the first Ivy League team to advance this far since 1979 (when Penn reached the final four). There they fell to the 1-seed Kentucky Wildcats, ending their historic run. This team featured several lauded seniors, including point guard Louis Dale, who finished as the third highest scorer and top assist man in Cornell history; center Jeff Foote, whose presence in the middle was essential to Cornell's success; and forward Ryan Wittman, who finished as the top scorer in Cornell men's basketball history (and the 5th highest scorer overall in Ivy League's men's basketball history) at 2,028 points.

Donahue received the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award for his accomplishments during the 2009-2010 season.

Boston College

On April 7, 2010, Boston College announced that Donahue had been hired as the head coach of its basketball program, replacing coach Al Skinner. Donahue led the Eagles to the second round of the NIT his first year. Donahue's second year was less successful, as the Eagles won only 9 games and lost to Harvard for the fourth year in a row. Donahue led the Eagles to a 16-17 season in his third year. Despite going 16-17, the Eagles lost to two top ten teams by one point.

On December 21st, 2013, Boston College fans cheered as it was reported that Steve Donahue agreed to stop whistling at his players for the rest of the season. However, this report was a hoax, and Donahue continued whistling at his players in a loss to Auburn on December 22nd.^[2]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Cornell (Ivy League) (2000–2010)
2000–2001	Cornell	7–20	3–11	T–7th
2001–2002	Cornell	5–22	2–12	7th
2002–2003	Cornell	9–18	4–10	T–5th
2003–2004	Cornell	11–16	6–8	T–5th
2004–2005	Cornell	13–14	8–6	2nd
2005–2006	Cornell	13–15	8–6	3rd
2006–2007	Cornell	16–12	9–5	3rd
2007–2008	Cornell	22–6	14–0	1st	NCAA First Round
2008–2009	Cornell	21–10	11–3	1st	NCAA First Round
2009–2010	Cornell	29–5	13–1	1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Cornell:		146–138 (.514)	78–62 (.557)
Boston College (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2010–present)
2010–2011	Boston College	21–13	9–7	T–4th	NIT Second Round
2011–2012	Boston College	9–22	4–12	T–9th
2012–2013	Boston College	16–17	7–11	8th
2013–2014	Boston College	6–15	2–6
Boston College:		52–67 (.437)	22–36 (.379)
Total:		198–205 (.491)
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

References

↑ Dance Party: Cornell Claims First NCAA Tourney Bid In 20 Years CornellBigRed.com access 03-03-2008
↑ http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/extras/colleges_blog/2010/04/bc_set_to_hire_1.html

External links

Cornell Big Red.com official biography

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1997: Haskins* 1998: Phelan 1999: O'Brien 2000: Boeheim 2001: Olson 2002: Knight 2003: Crean 2004: Krzyzewski 2005: Izzo 2006: Larrañaga 2007: Ryan 2008: McKillop 2009: Anderson 2010: Donahue 2011: Stevens *Selection later vacated

Persondata
Name	Donahue, Steve
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player-coach
Date of birth	May 21, 1962
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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