James Fitzgerald Jones[1] (born February 20, 1964) is an American college basketball coach and the current basketball coach at Yale University.
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Yale |
Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 352–291 (.547) |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1964-02-20) February 20, 1964 (age 58) Long Island, New York |
Playing career | |
1982–1986 | Albany |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1990–1995 | Albany (assistant) |
1995–1997 | Yale (assistant) |
1997–1999 | Ohio (assistant) |
1999–present | Yale |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 352–291 (.547) |
Tournaments | 1–2 (NCAA) 1–1 (NIT) 4–2 (CIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
5 Ivy League regular season (2002, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020) 2 Ivy League tournament (2019, 2022) | |
Awards | |
3× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016, 2020) Hugh Durham Award (2016) Ben Jobe Award (2019) | |
Born in Long Island, Jones played college basketball at SUNY Albany and worked as a sales executive for NCR Corporation before beginning his coaching career.[2] Jones succeeded Dick Kuchen as the 22nd men's basketball head coach of Yale University on April 27, 1999.[3] On March 17, 2016, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fifth-seeded Baylor University Bears in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.[4]
Five of Jones' assistants have gone on to become head coaches: Ted Hotaling (University of New Haven), Rob Senderoff (Kent State University), Isaiah Cavaco (Oberlin College), Mark Sembrowich (Academy of Art University), and Mark Gilbride (Clarkson University).[5]
His brother, Joe Jones, is the current men's basketball head coach at Boston University and was previously the men's basketball head coach at Columbia University.
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Yale Bulldogs (Ivy League) (1999–present) | |||||||||
1999–00 | Yale | 7–20 | 5–9 | 5th | |||||
2000–01 | Yale | 10–17 | 7–7 | 4th | |||||
2001–02 | Yale | 21–11 | 11–3 | T–1st | NIT Second Round | ||||
2002–03 | Yale | 14–13 | 8–6 | 4th | |||||
2003–04 | Yale | 12–15 | 7–7 | 4th | |||||
2004–05 | Yale | 11–16 | 7–7 | 3rd | |||||
2005–06 | Yale | 15–14 | 7–7 | 4th | |||||
2006–07 | Yale | 14–13 | 10–4 | 2nd | |||||
2007–08 | Yale | 13–15 | 7–7 | 4th | |||||
2008–09 | Yale | 13–15 | 8–6 | 2nd | |||||
2009–10 | Yale | 12–19 | 6–8 | 4th | |||||
2010–11 | Yale | 15–13 | 8–6 | 3rd | |||||
2011–12 | Yale | 19–10 | 9–5 | 4th | CIT First Round | ||||
2012–13 | Yale | 14–17 | 8–6 | 3rd | |||||
2013–14 | Yale | 19–14 | 9–5 | 2nd | CIT Runner-Up | ||||
2014–15 | Yale | 22–10 | 11–3 | T–1st | |||||
2015–16 | Yale | 23–7 | 13–1 | 1st | NCAA second round | ||||
2016–17 | Yale | 18–11 | 9–5 | 3rd | |||||
2017–18 | Yale | 16–15 | 9–5 | 3rd | |||||
2018–19 | Yale | 22–8 | 10–4 | T–1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2019–20 | Yale | 23–7 | 11–3 | 1st | Postseason Canceled | ||||
2020–21 | Yale | Season Canceled | |||||||
2021–22 | Yale | 19–11 | 11–3 | 2nd | NCAA first round | ||||
Yale: | 352–291 (.547) | 191–117 (.620) | |||||||
Total: | 352–290 (.548) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Men's basketball head coaches of the Ivy League | |
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