Joseph Gerard Dooley III (born January 29, 1965) is the former head men's basketball coach of the

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, having previously served as head coach from 1995 to 1999 and 2018-2022. Dooley was an assistant on the

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2007–08 NCAA national championship team. and previously served as head coach at

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. Dooley is a 1988 graduate of

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, where he completed his bachelor's degree in speech communications. A four-year letter winner in basketball at George Washington, he started his last two seasons and was elected a team captain as a senior. A native of

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, Dooley was a prep player at St. Benedicts High School in

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where he scored 1,140 career points. He is married to Tanya and has a son named Max.

College coaching history

Early coaching jobs

In 1988, Dooley joined

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's staff at the University of South Carolina. While on staff there, the Gamecocks earned a berth in the 1989 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and the 1991 National Invitation Tournament. In 1991, he followed fellow South Carolina assistant

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to East Carolina. His role involved coaching the backcourt, scheduling, and recruiting. He helped the team earn a championship in the 1993 CAA men's basketball tournament and a berth in the NCAA tournament; the program's first in 21 years.

East Carolina

After the 1994–1995 season, Eddie Payne departed the Pirate program for

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. Dooley was promoted to head coach of East Carolina. At age 29, he was the youngest head coach in the nation. In his first three years, his teams posted 45 wins (the most of any head coach of the program in the same time period). Despite still being the only head coach for the Pirates' program to have an overall winning record at 57–52, he was fired from the job after the 1999 season.

As an assistant

After leaving ECU, Dooley spent stints as an assistant at New Mexico, Wyoming, and Kansas. While on

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's staff at Kansas Dooley was known as a great recruiter, bringing in players such as

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, Russell Robinson,

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, and

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. After 10 years on the Jayhawks' staff, Dooley accepted the head coaching job at Florida Gulf Coast.

Florida Gulf Coast

Dooley won twenty or more games in all five years of his tenure with the Eagles. In 2017, he became FGCU's first coach to be named Atlantic Sun coach of the year, he earned his second honor in 2018. He earned two NCAA tournaments and two NITs at the school.

Return to East Carolina

Following the 2017–2018 season, Dooley was hired as head coach at East Carolina, where he had previously been the head coach. On March 11, 2022, Dooley was fired a second time by East Carolina, compiling a 101-119 record in his two-stints.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Florida Gulf Coast Eagles bio

Kansas Jayhawks bio
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