Donnie Tyndall
| Donnie Tyndall | |
|---|---|
 Tyndall in 2013 as Southern Miss coach. | |
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 14, 1970 Ravenna, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| 1989–1990 1990–1993 |
Iowa Central CC Morehead State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–1996 1996–1997 1997–2001 2001–2002 2002–2006 2006–2012 2012–2014 2014–2015 |
Iowa Central CC (asst.) St. Catharine JC LSU (asst.) Idaho (assoc. HC) Middle Tennessee (assoc. HC) Morehead State Southern Miss Tennessee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 215-121 (.640) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Championships | |
Donald Joseph "Donnie" Tyndall (born June 14, 1970) is an American college basketball coach.
His teams are known for pressing and playing an unconventional match-up zone, a highly successful variation of the defensive system employed by coach Rick Pitino at Louisville.[1]
Coaching career
After graduating from Morehead State University in 1993, Tyndall began coaching at the junior college level. From 1994 to 1996, he was assistant coach at Iowa Central Community College. Tyndall had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. Catharine Junior College in Springfield, Kentucky. Tyndall led St. Catharine to a 30–5 record and the school's first-ever NJCAA tournament appearance. In 1997, Tyndall earned NJCAA Region 7 National Coach of the Year and Kentucky Junior College Coach of the Year honors.[2]
After his season at St. Catharine, Tyndall got his first NCAA Division I coaching position as an assistant at LSU under John Brady, a position he would hold from 1997 to 2001.[2] Tyndall helped LSU finish first in the SEC West Division in the 1999–00 season and make the Sweet 16 round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament.[3] This LSU team also featured Stromile Swift, the #2 pick in the 2000 NBA draft.
In the 2001–02 season, Tyndall served as associate head coach at Idaho under Leonard Perry. From 2002 to 2006, Tyndall was associate head coach at Middle Tennessee under Kermit Davis. Middle Tennessee had winning seasons all four of those seasons.[2]
In his first Division I head coaching job, Tyndall served as head coach at his alma mater Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Morehead State under Tyndall won the Ohio Valley Conference tournaments of 2009 and 2011 and earned automatic NCAA Tournament bids those years. Morehead State also made the 2010 College Basketball Invitational. In August 2010, the NCAA placed Morehead State on two years' probation for violations by boosters.[4] As a #13 seed, Morehead State upset #4 seed Louisville 62-61 in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament.[5]
Tyndall was the head coach at the Southern Miss from 2012 to 2014. Southern Miss made the National Invitation Tournament in 2013 and 2014 and finished first in Conference USA standings for the 2013–14 season.
On April 22, 2014 Donnie Tyndall was hired as head basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, after spending the previous two seasons as the head basketball coach at Southern Miss.[2]
On March 27, 2015, Tennessee fired Tyndall after the NCAA notified Tennessee officials that Tyndall was almost certain to be severely punished for NCAA violations at Southern Miss. The violations centered around improper financial aid for two players, as well as academic problems with junior college transfers.[4] According to a copy of Tyndall's termination letter, Tyndall had lied to Tennessee officials about the extent of the violations on several occasions. The letter also revealed that Tyndall had admitted deleting several emails from his Southern Miss email account, even though he knew that the emails were relevant to the NCAA investigation.[6] Athletic director Dave Hart called Tyndall's hiring a mistake, and admitted that he would have never hired Tyndall had the full extent of the Southern Miss violations been known.[4]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| St. Catharine College (Mid-South) (1996–1997) | |||||||||
| 1996–97 | St. Catharine College | 30–5 | National Junior College Tournament | ||||||
| St. Catharine College: | 30–5 (.857) | ||||||||
| Morehead State (Ohio Valley Conference) (2006–2012) | |||||||||
| 2006–07 | Morehead State | 12–18 | 8–12 | T–7th | |||||
| 2007–08 | Morehead State | 15–15 | 12–8 | 3rd | |||||
| 2008–09 | Morehead State | 20–16 | 12–6 | 4th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2009–10 | Morehead State | 24–11 | 15–3 | 2nd | CBI Quarterfinals | ||||
| 2010–11 | Morehead State | 25–10 | 13–5 | 2nd | NCAA Third Round | ||||
| 2011–12 | Morehead State | 18–14 | 10–6 | 3rd | |||||
| Morehead State: | 114–84 (.576) | 70–40 (.636) | |||||||
| Southern Mississippi (Conference USA) (2012–2014) | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | Southern Miss | 27–10 | 12–4 | 2nd | NIT Quarterfinals | ||||
| 2013–14 | Southern Miss | 29–7 | 13–3 | 1st | NIT Quarterfinals | ||||
| Southern Mississippi: | 56–17 (.767) | 25–7 (.781) | |||||||
| Tennessee Volunteers (Southeastern Conference) (2014–2015) | |||||||||
| 2014–15 | Tennessee | 16–16 | 7–11 | 10th | |||||
| Tennessee: | 16–16 (.500) | 7–11 (.389) | |||||||
| Total: | 216–122 (.639) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ↑ Dortch, Chris. "Advanced statistics provide preview of new Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall’s system". Chris Dortch.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Donnie Tyndall". Tennessee Volunteers. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/louisiana-state/2000-schedule.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Volunteers fire Donnie Tyndall. ESPN, 2015-03-27.
- ↑ "Donnie Tyndall". Morehead State Eagles. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Termination letter at Tennessee
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