James Jones
James Jones (born February 20, 1964)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Yale Bulldogs
Current conference: Ivy League
Yale record: 396-311 (.560)
Overall record: 396-311 (.560)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2016, 2019, 2022, 2024)
- 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: 3 (2019, 2022, 2024)
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 395 games, won/shared six Ivy League titles and won three Ivy League Tournaments to earn three of his four total trips to the NCAA Tournament
- Jones has been the head coach for more than half of the program’s NCAA appearances and owns all of Yale’s NCAAT victories
- Younger brother is Joe Jones, current head coach at Boston University and formerly at Columbia
James Jones Coaching Tree
- Rob Senderoff (Kent State)