Darris Nichols
Darris Nichols (born May 20, 1986)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Radford Highlanders
Current conference: Big South Conference
Radford record: 48-50 (.490)
Overall record: 48-50 (.490)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2023)
- Big South Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big South Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | Radford |
| 2015-2021 | Florida (asst) |
| 2014-2015 | Louisiana Tech (asst) |
| 2013-2014 | Wofford (asst) |
| 2011-2013 | Northern Kentucky (asst) |
| 2010-2011 | West Virginia (grad. asst) |
Darris Nichols Facts
- Darris Nichols
- Born May 20, 1986
- Hometown: Radford, Virginia
- Alma Mater: West Virginia University (BA, 2008)
- Graduated from Radford HS (VA) then played at West Virginia for head coaches John Beilein and Bob Huggins
- Part of the Mountaineers teams that went to the Elite Eight in 2005, the Sweet Sixteen in 2006 & 2008 and won the NIT in 2007
- After one year playing in Hungary, Nichols spent the 2010-11 season working under Huggins at WVU as a graduate assistant
- Became a full-time assistant in 2011, spending two years on Dave Bezold’s staff at then D-II Northern Kentucky and then one season at D-I Wofford working under Mike Young
- Hired by Mike White in 2014 to be an assistant at Louisiana Tech, then followed him to Florida the following year
- Spent six seasons with the Gators, during which he was part of four NCAA Tournaments (including a Sweet Sixteen in 2017)
- In April 2021, he returned to his hometown and became the head coach at Radford in the Big South
- Nichols was arrested for DUI on February 19, 2023; his older brother, Shane, an assistant on his staff, was named acting head coach following the arrest
Darris Nichols Coaching Tree
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