Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy (born October 5, 1948)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: La Salle Explorers
Current conference: Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10)
Penn record: 310-163 (.655)
Temple record: 270-162 (.625)
La Salle record: 31-36 (.463)
Overall record: 611-361 (.629)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 17 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2015, 2018)
- Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champion: 2 (2010, 2012)
- AAC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2016)
- Ivy League Regular Season Champion: 10 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
- Atlantic 10 Tournament Champion: 3 (2008, 2009, 2010)
Awards:
- Gene Bartow Award: 1 (2019)
- AAC Coach of the Year: 2 (2015, 2016)
- Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year: 2 (2010, 2012)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | La Salle |
| 2006-2019 | Temple |
| 1989-2006 | Penn |
| 1988-1989 | Penn (asst) |
| 1985-1988 | La Salle (asst) |
| 1980-1984 | American (asst) |
| 1979-1980 | La Salle (asst) |
| 1971-1975 | Army (asst) |
Fran Dunphy Facts
- Francis Joseph Dunphy
- Born October 5, 1948
- Hometown: Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
- Alma Mater: La Salle University (BS, 1970) / Villanova University (MA, 1979)
- Played four years for the La Salle Explorers under head coaches Jim Harding and Tom Gola
- Started coaching career in 1971 as an assistant under Dan Dougherty at Army
- Served two stints as an assistant coach at his alma mater, La Salle, under head coaches Lefty Ervin and Speedy Morris
- Spent two years in between as the head coach at Malvern Prep outside of Philadelphia, PA (his alma mater)
- Also worked as an assistant for four seasons at American under Hall of Fame head coach Gary Williams
- Became an assistant under Tom Schneider at Penn in 1988 and took over as head coach a year later
- Won ten Ivy League titles in seventeen seasons as the Quakers’ head coach
- Left Penn for Temple in 2006, where he served as the head coach for thirteen seasons
- Led the Owls to eight NCAA Tournaments, including a run of six straight (2008-13)
- Won four conference titles (three A-10 and one AAC) and three Atlantic 10 Tournaments
- First man to serve as head coach of two different “Big 5” basketball programs (Penn & Temple)
- Served as a teacher off the court within Temple’s Fox School of Business and previously at Wharton School (Penn)
- Announced in April 2018 that he will be retiring after the 2018-19 season; assistant coach Aaron McKie was named as his successor at Temple
- 2018-19 Owls earned an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament, the eighth bid for Dunphy at Temple (17th total)
- Dunphy was honored with the 2019 Gene Bartow Award, which recognizes “outstanding achievement and contributions to the game”
- In June 2020, Temple announced that Dunphy would return as Acting Director of Athletics for the Owls
- Made a return to coaching in April 2022, becoming the new head coach at his alma mater La Salle
Fran Dunphy Coaching Tree
- Jerome Allen (Penn)
- Steve Donahue (Penn, Boston College, Cornell)
- Gil Jackson (Howard)
- Mike Jordan (Lafayette)
- Dave Klatsky (NYU)
- Matt Langel (Colgate)
- Aaron McKie (Temple)
- Dwayne Killings (Albany)
- Fran O’Hanlon (Lafayette)
- Andrew Radomicki (Chestnut Hill)
- Andrew Toole (Robert Morris)
