Brian Jones (basketball, born 1971)
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Assistant Coach |
| Team | East Tennessee State |
| Conference | SoCon |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | April 22, 1971 Rock Island, Illinois, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1990–1994 | Northern Iowa |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1996–1998 | Nebraska–Omaha (assistant) |
| 1998–1999 | Southwest Missouri State (assistant) |
| 1999–2006 | Iowa (assistant) |
| 2006–2019 | North Dakota |
| 2019–2022 | Illinois State (asst.) |
| 2022 | Illinois State (interim HC) |
| 2022–2023 | Bradley (assistant) |
| 2023–present | East Tennessee State (assistant) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 192–222 (.464) |
| Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA Division I) 0–5 (CIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 Great West tournament (2011, 2012) Big Sky regular season (2017) Big Sky tournament (2017) | |
| Awards | |
| Big Sky Coach of the Year (2017) | |
Brian Jones (born April 22, 1971) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at East Tennessee State. Jones is a graduate of University of Northern Iowa. Prior to North Dakota Jones was a longtime assistant on the coaching staffs of Steve Alford. While working with Alford, he participated in the four NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments, once with Southwest Missouri St. and three times with Iowa. Jones was named the 18th head coach of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux basketball program on May 25, 2006. Under Jones' tenure at North Dakota, the university won back-to-back Great West tournament championships in 2011 and 2012, and he led North Dakota to four consecutive appearances in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. In 2017, he led North Dakota to the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time.
Jones was the interim head coach at Illinois State from February 14, 2022, through the end of the season following Dan Muller's resignation.[1]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota Fighting Sioux (North Central Conference) (2006–2008) | |||||||||
| 2006–07 | North Dakota | 11–17 | 3–10 | T–5th | |||||
| 2007–08 | North Dakota | 15–15 | 2–10 | T–6th | |||||
| North Dakota: | 26–32 (.448) | 5–20 (.200) | |||||||
| North Dakota Fighting Sioux / North Dakota (Great West Conference) (2008–2012) | |||||||||
| 2008–09 | North Dakota | 16–12 | 5–7 | 4th | |||||
| 2009–10 | North Dakota | 8–23 | 5–7 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2010–11 | North Dakota | 19–15 | 8–4 | 3rd | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2011–12 | North Dakota | 17–15 | 6–4 | 2nd | CIT First Round | ||||
| North Dakota: | 60–65 (.480) | 24–22 (.522) | |||||||
| North Dakota / North Dakota Fighting Hawks (Big Sky Conference) (2012–2018) | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | North Dakota | 16–17 | 12–8 | 3rd | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2013–14 | North Dakota | 17–17 | 12–8 | T–2nd | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2014–15 | North Dakota | 8–22 | 4–14 | T–10th | |||||
| 2015–16 | North Dakota | 17–16 | 10–8 | T–5th | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2016–17 | North Dakota | 22–10 | 14–4 | 1st | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
| 2017–18 | North Dakota | 12–20 | 6–12 | T–8th | |||||
| North Dakota: | 92–102 (.474) | 58–54 (.518) | |||||||
| North Dakota Fighting Hawks (Summit League) (2018–2019) | |||||||||
| 2018–19 | North Dakota | 12–18 | 6–10 | 7th | |||||
| North Dakota: | 12–18 (.400) | 6–10 (.375) | |||||||
| Illinois State Redbirds (Missouri Valley Conference) (2022) | |||||||||
| 2021–22* | Illinois State | 2–5 (.286) | 1–4 (.200) | ||||||
| Total: | 192–222 (.464) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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*Interim coach
References
- ^ Stock, Eric (February 14, 2022). "ISU's Dan Muller steps down after initially planning to finish the season following his firing". WGLT. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
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