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2016–17 Belmont Bruins Men's Basketball Team
The 2016–17 Belmont Bruins men's basketball team represented Belmont University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bruins, led by 31st-year head coach Rick Byrd, played their home games at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee as members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in the East Division. They finished the season 23–7, 15–1 in OVC play, to win the regular-season championship. In the 2017 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, OVC tournament, they lost in the semifinals to 2016–17 Jacksonville State Gamecocks men's basketball team, Jacksonville State. As a regular-season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament title, they received an automatic bid to the 2017 National Invitation Tournament, National Invitation Tournament where they defeated 2016–17 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team, Georgia in the first round before losing to 2016–17 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team, Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Byrd
Richard F. Byrd (born April 30, 1953) is a retired American college basketball coach who served as the head coach of the Belmont Bruins men's basketball team from 1986-2019. On February 16, 2017, with the Bruins win over Eastern Kentucky, Byrd marked his 750th career win, 658 with Belmont. He retired after the 2018-2019 season with 805 wins, which ranks twelfth all-time among NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches. Early life Byrd grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee where he would sit alongside his father, Ben Byrd, and watch him write articles on the Tennessee men's basketball games as a kid. He then went to play basketball at a Florida junior college for a year, but decided to come back home to Knoxville and attend the University of Tennessee, where he was asked to join the junior varsity team for the Volunteers his senior year. The next year, in order to start his coaching career, he became the student assistant to the varsity squad. The very next year Byrd also attempted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |