Billy Kennedy
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William Joseph Kennedy Jr. (born February 2, 1964) is an American basketball coach who was most recently the head coach of the Texas A&M University men's basketball team.
He took over the position vacated by Mark Turgeon in May 2011.
He previously held the same position at Murray State University for five seasons.
Kennedy previously held the same position at Centenary and Southeastern Louisiana.
He has served 13 seasons as a collegiate head coach and 13 as an assistant. Kennedy is a 1986 graduate of Southeastern Louisiana and 1984 graduate of Delgado Community College in New Orleans.
He played basketball and attended Holy Cross High School in New Orleans.
Coaching career
Kennedy's first collegiate head coaching position came at Centenary after 12 years as an assistant coach, including the previous four at California. He took over a program that had only won 30 games in the previous three seasons. His first team won 10 games, but his second improved to a 14-14 overall record and a 9-7 Trans America Athletic Conference record, the highest finish in five years.
Kennedy was hired in 1999 and he steadily improved his alma mater, winning ten games in his first season and doubling that total four seasons later, winning the Southland Conference regular-season championship. His sixth team went 24-9, the most successful in school history, and they also captured both the conference regular-season and tournament championship titles. The Lions advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history, losing 63-50 to Oklahoma State.
The Louisiana Sports Writers Association, the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 8) selected Kennedy coach of the year in 2005, 2005-2005.
Kennedy resigned from his position at Southeastern Louisiana to become Miami's assistant head coach.
In 2006, Kennedy was named Murray State's 14th men's basketball coach after Mick Cronin departed for Cincinnati after spending one season as an assistant at Miami.
He took over a team that had only one returning starter, leading the Racers to a 16-14 record and second-place finish in the Ohio Valley Conference. His next two squads won 18 and 19 games, finishing second in the conference regular-season standings, and advanced to the OVC tournament semifinals.
Murray State's fourth squad won more games than any in school history, progressing to the second round of the NCAA tournament. In the first round of the West Regional at San Jose, California, the 13th-seeded Racers defeated fourth-seed Vanderbilt University 66-65, the third consecutive NCAA Tournament win in school history. In the 54-52 match against fifth-seeded Butler University, they were eliminated in a close second-round contest. The Racers won 17 games in a row over the season, before losing 70-65 at Morehead State University on February 25, 2010. The Racers posted a 31-5 record on the season, as well as 17-1 conference record, and defeated Morehead State 62-51 in the OVC tournament championship game, avenging their lone league loss.
Kennedy was named 2010 OVC and National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 19) coach of the year.
The Kennedy's Racers continued to OVC regular-season champions in 2010-11 but fell in the conference tournament semifinals. Murray State secured a spot in the National Invitation Tournament after losing 89-76 at Missouri State to finish with a 23-9 season record. Kennedy was again named OVC coach of the year by the year's top OVC coach.
In May 2011, Texas A&M recruited Kennedy. Kennedy worked at A&M from 1990-1991. At the press conference, Kennedy said that A&M is his destination job and that he wants to retire there. In 2016, he was named SEC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year.
Kennedy had been diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's disease and had to leave the team for medical attention on October 27, 2011. Following recovery, Kennedy said he planned to return, and Associate Coach Glynn Cyprien was temporarily placed in charge of the team.
In A&M's second game of the regular season, Kennedy returned to the bench for the Aggies' game against Southern on November 13, 2011.
When A&M shared the SEC crown with Kentucky in 2015-16, he helped A&M win their first conference title in 30 years. Before losing to Kentucky in overtime, the Aggies also reached the SEC tournament final before losing in overtime. Kennedy was given a new 5-year deal for his efforts. Coach Kennedy's crew also orchestrated the biggest come-from-behind victory in college basketball history by overcoming a 12 point deficit in the final 34 seconds of the 2016 NCAA tournament's second round. A&M would tie up the game before eventually defeating Northern Iowa in double overtime in order to advance to the Sweet 16 against the University of Oklahoma.
A&M was ranked No. 5 by Kennedy early in the 2017-2018 season, with 20 on the season to follow. The team advanced to the Sweet 16 and a game against Michigan in the second round of the NCAA tournament to face defending National champion North Carolina.
He was fired at the end of the season after a poor 2018-19 season, losing four of five starters from the previous season, as well as seven scholarship players.
Following Gregg Marshall's departure from Wichita State, Kennedy was hired as an assistant for the 2020-21 season by interim head coach Isaac Brown. In 2021, Kennedy and his wife were the recipients of the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award at Wichita State University.