James Jones (born February 20, 1964)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Yale Bulldogs
Current conference: Ivy League
Yale record: 373-301 (.553)
Overall record: 373-301 (.553)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  3  (2016, 2019, 2022)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  2  (2002, 2023)
• CBI Championships:  0  (Runner-up in 2014)
• CBI Appearances:   2   (2012, 2014)
• Ivy League Regular Season Champion:  6  (2002, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023)
• Ivy League Tournament Champion:  2  (2019, 2022)

Awards:

• Hugh Durham Award:  1  (2016)
• Ben Jobe Award:  1  (2019)
• Ivy League Coach of the Year:  4  (2015, 2016, 2020, 2023)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

1999-present	Yale
1997-1999	Ohio (asst)
1995-1997	Yale (asst)
1990-1995	Albany (asst)

James Jones Facts

• James Fitzgerald Jones
• Born February 20, 1964
• Hometown: Long Island, New York
• Alma Mater: State University of New York at Albany (BA, 1986 & M.Ed., 1995)
• Played four seasons at Albany for coach Richard “Doc” Sauers, then worked as Sauers‘ assistant for five seasons
• Was also an assistant to Dick Kuchen at Yale and Larry Hunter at Ohio prior to becoming Yale’s head coach in 1999
  • In 24 seasons as the Yale head coach, Jones has won over 370 games, won/shared six Ivy League titles and won the 2019 and 2022 Ivy League Tournaments to earn two of his three trips to the NCAA Tournament
• Younger brother is Joe Jones, current head coach at Boston University and formerly at Columbia

James Jones Coaching Tree

• Rob Senderoff (Kent State)