Bruiser Flint (born July 23, 1965)
Current position: Associate to the men’s basketball coach
Current team: Kentucky Wildcats (Head coach: John Calipari)
Current conference: Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Teams coached: UMass Minutemen, Drexel Dragons
UMass record: 86-72 (.544)
Drexel record: 245-217 (.530)
Overall record: 331-289 (.534)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (1997, 1998)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 6 (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012)
- CAA Regular Season Champion: 1 (2012)
Awards:
- CAA Coach of the Year: 4 (2002, 2004, 2009, 2012)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | Kentucky (assoc. to the HC) |
| 2020-2021 | Kentucky (asst) |
| 2017-2020 | Indiana (asst) |
| 2001-2016 | Drexel |
| 1996-2001 | UMass |
| 1989-1996 | UMass (asst) |
| 1987-1989 | Coppin State (asst) |
Bruiser Flint Facts
- James Flint
- Born July 23, 1965
- Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Alma Mater: Saint Joseph’s University (BA, 1987)
- Graduated from Episcopal Academy in 1983 and went on to play for head coach Jim Boyle at Saint Joseph’s
- Earned All-Atlantic 10 honors as a senior; inducted into the Saint Joseph’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998
- Spent two years as an assistant at Coppin State under Fang Mitchell before joining John Calipari‘s staff at UMass in 1989
- After seven seasons, Flint took over as head coach in 1996 when Calipari left for the New Jersey Nets
- Went 86-72 in five years as head coach, leading the Minutemen to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first two seasons but was unable to maintain the success Calipari had before him
- Resigned in March 2001 and a month later accepted the head position at Drexel, where he coached the Dragons for 15 seasons
- Won 245 games and went to five NITs, winning one CAA title but never making it back to the NCAAs
- Fired from his position in March 2016, leaving the program as its all-time winningest coach
- Joined Archie Miller‘s first staff at Indiana as an assistant coach in April 2017
- In August 2020, Flint left IU for Kentucky to reunite with his former boss and mentor, John Calipari
- Along with his wife, Rene, has one daughter
Bruiser Flint Coaching Tree
- Tony Barbee (Central Michigan, Auburn, UTEP)
- Michael Connors (USciences)
- Ashley Howard (La Salle)
- Dwayne Killings (Albany)
- Chuck Martin (Marist)
- Bashir Mason (Saint Peter’s, Wagner)
- John Robic (Youngstown State)
