Jeff Lebo

Sport(s)

Basketball

Current position

Title

Head coach

Team

East Carolina

Biographical details

Born

October 5, 1966
Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Playing career

1985–1989

North Carolina

Coaching career (HC unless noted)

1990–1992
1992–1993
1993–1998
1998–2002
2002–2004
2004–2010
2010–present

East Tennessee State (asst.)
Vanderbilt (asst.)
South Carolina (asst.)
Tennessee Tech
Chattanooga
Auburn
East Carolina

Accomplishments and honors

Championships

OVC Regular Season Championship (2001, 2002)
CIT Tournament (2013)

Medal record

Men's basketball
Competitor for United States
Pan American Games
Silver	1987 Indianapolis	Team competition

Jeffrey Brian Lebo (born October 5, 1966) is the head men's basketball coach at East Carolina University. He was previously the head men's basketball coach at Auburn University (2004–2010), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2002–04), and Tennessee Tech (1998–2002). Before becoming a head coach, he spent a total of eight years as an assistant coach at South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and East Tennessee State.

Lebo was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. As a high school player, he played for his father, Dave Lebo, at Carlisle High School, where he was a McDonalds All-American. The elder Lebo would later serve as an assistant to his son, at Auburn. As a collegian, Lebo was a 4 year starter(1986–1989) while playing for legendary coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina. While at Carolina, Lebo set the Tar Heel record for most consecutive free throws made (41 from January 3 to March 12, 1989), the most assists in a single game (17 vs. vs. Tennessee-Chattanooga on Nov. 18, 1988) and graduated with the highest ever free throw shooting percentage (.839) in Tar Heel history. Lebo was also an Academic All American and graduated in 1989 with a degree in Business Administration. After leaving the Tar Heels, Lebo had a brief NBA career as a member of the San Antonio Spurs during the 1989-90 season, appearing in four games.

On 12 March 2010, following a loss to Florida in the 2010 SEC men's basketball tournament in Nashville, Lebo was fired as the head basketball coach after compiling a 96-93 record at Auburn and no post-season NCAA Tournament bids.^[1]

On March 22, 2010, Lebo was named head coach at East Carolina University.^[2] During his first year in Greenville, Lebo led the ECU Pirates basketball team to 18 wins, their first winning season since 1997, and a spot in the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Tournament which was the first post-season appearance by the Pirates since the 1993 NCAA Tournament. The 18 wins were the second most wins ever by the ECU Pirates since becoming a Division I basketball team. During his third year at ECU, Lebo again led the Pirates to the CIT Tournament. The Pirates defeated Weber State and won the 2013 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament Championship that year.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Tennessee Tech (Ohio Valley Conference) (1998–2002)
1998–99	Tennessee Tech	12–15	8–10	T-7th
1999–00	Tennessee Tech	16–12	11–7	T-3rd
2000–01	Tennessee Tech	20–9	13–3	1st
2001–02	Tennessee Tech	27–7	15–1	1st	NIT Quarterfinals
Tennessee Tech:		75–43	47–21
Chattanooga (Southern Conference) (2002–2004)
2002–03	Chattanooga	21–9	11–5	2nd (South)
2003–04	Chattanooga	19–11	10–6	2nd (North)
Chattanooga:		40–20	21–11
Auburn (Southeastern Conference) (2004–2010)
2004–05	Auburn	14–17	4–12	T-5th (West)
2005–06	Auburn	12–16	4–12	T-5th (West)
2006–07	Auburn	17–15	7–9	T-3rd (West)
2007–08	Auburn	14–16	4–12	6th (West)
2008–09	Auburn	24–12	10–6	2nd (West)	NIT Quarterfinals
2009–10	Auburn	15–17	6–10	T-4th (West)
Auburn:		96–93	35–61
East Carolina (Conference USA) (2010–2014)
2010–11	East Carolina	18–16	8–8	T-7th	CIT First Round
2011–12	East Carolina	15–16	5–11	10th
2012–13	East Carolina	23–12	9–7	T–4th	CIT Champions
2013–14	East Carolina	17–17	5–11	T-12th	CIT First Round
East Carolina (American Athletic Conference) (2014–present)
2014–15	East Carolina	14–19	6–12	T-7th
East Carolina:		87-80	33–49
Total:		298–236
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

External links

East Carolina profile
Auburn profile
NBA stats @ basketballreference.com

Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles men's basketball head coaches

Preston Vaughn Overall (1924–1947) Hooper Eblen (1947–1948) Raymond Brown (1948–1955) John Oldham (1955–1964) Kenny Sidwell (1964–1969) Connie Inman (1969–1976) Cliff Malpass (1976–1980) Tom Deaton (1980–1988) Frank Harrell (1988–1998) Jeff Lebo (1998–2002) Mike Sutton (2002–2011) Steve Payne (2011– )

Chattanooga Mocs basketball head coaches

Johnny Spiegel (1915–1916)
No team (1916–1919)
W. V. Jarrett (1919–1920)
Bill Redd (1920–1928)
Harold Drew (1928–1931)
Humpy Phillips (1931–1933)
Pop Keyser (1933–1939)
Perron Shoemaker (1939–1942)
No team (1942–1945)
Perron Shoemaker (1945–1946)
Bill O'Brien (1946–1955)
Ben Boulware (1955–1958)
Tommy Bartlett (1958–1962)
Leon Ford (1962–1972)
Ron Shumate (1972–1979)
Murray Arnold (1979–1985)
Mack McCarthy (1985–1997)
Henry Dickerson (1997–2002)
Jeff Lebo (2002–2004)
John Shulman (2004–2013)
Will Wade (2013–2015)
Matt McCall (2015– )

Auburn Tigers men's basketball head coaches

Mike Donahue (1905–1921)
Wilbur Hutsell (1921–1924)
Herb Bunker (1924–1925)
Mike Papke (1925–1928)
George Bohler (1928–1929)
Hal Lee (1929–1930)
Sam J. McAllister (1930–1933)
Ralph Jordan (1933–1942)
Bob K. Evans (1942–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Bob K. Evans (1944–1945)
Ralph Jordan (1945–1946)
V. J. Edney (1946–1947)
Danny Doyle (1947–1949)
Joel Eaves (1949–1963)
Bill Lynn (1962–1973)
Bob Davis (1973–1978)
Sonny Smith (1978–1989)
Tommy Joe Eagles (1989–1994)
Cliff Ellis (1994–2004)
Jeff Lebo (2004–2010)
Tony Barbee (2010–2014)
Bruce Pearl (2014– )

East Carolina Pirates men's basketball head coaches

C. W. Porter (1931–1932)
C. K. Beatty (1932–1934)
Doc Mathis (1934–1936)
Bo Farley (1936–1937)
J. D. Alexander (1937–1938)
Gordon Gilbert (1938–1939)
Bo Farley (1939–1940)
John Christenbury (1940–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Unknown (1944–1945)
Earl Smith (1945–1946)
Jim Johnson (1946–1947)
Howard Porter (1947–1959)
Earl Smith (1959–1963)
Wendell Carr (1963–1966)
Tom Quinn (1966–1974)
Dave Patton (1974–1977)
Larry Gillman (1977–1979)
Dave Odom (1979–1982)
Charlie Harrison (1982–1987)
Mike Steele (1987–1991)
Eddie Payne (1991–1995)
Joe Dooley (1995–1999)
Bill Herrion (1999–2005)
Ricky Stokes (2005–2007)
Mack McCarthy (2007–2010)
Jeff Lebo (2010– )

Current men's basketball head coaches of the American Athletic Conference

Mick Cronin (Cincinnati) Kevin Ollie (Connecticut) Jeff Lebo (East Carolina) Kelvin Sampson (Houston) Josh Pastner (Memphis) Larry Brown (SMU) Orlando Antigua (South Florida) Fran Dunphy (Temple) Ed Conroy (Tulane) Frank Haith (Tulsa) Donnie Jones (UCF)

United States squad – 1987 Pan American Games – Silver medal

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