Anthony Grant
Anthony Grant (born April 15, 1966)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Dayton Flyers
Current conference: Atlantic-10 Conference (A-10)
VCU record: 76-25 (.752)
Alabama record: 117-85 (.579)
Dayton record: 149-72 (.674)
Overall record: 342-181 (.654)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2007, 2009, 2012, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2011)
- NIT Appearances: 7 (2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2022)
- Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champion: 1 (2020)
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2011)
- CAA Regular Season Champion: 3 (2007, 2008, 2009)
- Atlantic 10 Tournament Champion: 0
- CAA Tournament Champion: 2 (2007, 2009)
Awards:
- AP Coach of the Year: 1 (2020)
- Naismith Coach of the Year: 1 (2020)
- NABC Coach of the Year: 1 (2020)
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: 1 (2020)
- Henry Iba Award: 1 (2020)
- Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year: 1 (2020)
- CAA Coach of the Year: 1 (2007)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2017-present | Dayton |
| 2015-2017 | Oklahoma City Thunder (asst) |
| 2009-2015 | Alabama |
| 2006-2009 | VCU |
| 1996-2006 | Florida (asst) |
| 1994-1996 | Marshall (asst) |
| 1993-1994 | Stetson (asst) |
Anthony Grant Facts
- Anthony Duvale Grant
- Born April 15, 1966
- Hometown: Miami, Florida
- Alma Mater: University of Dayton (BA, 1987)
- Graduated from Miami High School in 1983 and then played four years at Dayton under longtime head coach Don Donoher
- Returned to Miami after graduating to become an assistant coach and math teach at his alma mater
- Spent one season as head coach at Miami Central HS before becoming an assistant at D-I Stetson in 1993 under Dan Hipsher
- Hired in 1994 by Billy Donovan as an assistant at Marshall; followed him to Florida and spent ten seasons with the Gators
- Spent three years as VCU head coach, winning three-straight CAA regular season titles and making two trips to the NCAA Tournament, before being hired at Alabama in 2009
- Finished runner-up in the 2011 NIT, then guided the Tide to the NCAA Tournament in 2012 and NIT again in 2013 and 2015
- Let go by Alabama in March 2015, between the end of the SEC Tournament and the NIT
- Rehired in the off-season (April 2015) by Donovan at Florida; Donovan was hired shortly thereafter (June 2015) to become the head coach of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder and Grant was added to his first staff in OKC as an assistant
- Announced in March 2017 to be the head coach at his alma mater, Dayton
- After missing the postseason in his first year, Grant’s Flyers earned an NIT berth in 2019
- The Flyers ran the table in 2020, winning the A-10 title; Grant won A-10 COY and numerous National COY honors, but the postseason was cancelled
Anthony Grant Coaching Tree
- John Brannen (Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Alabama)
- Allen Edwards (Wyoming)
- Darren Hertz (Wittenberg)
- Donnie Jones (Stetson)
- Brett Nelson (Holy Cross)
- Antoine Pettway (Kennesaw State)
- Tony Pujol (North Alabama)
- Reggie Witherspoon (Canisius)