Johnny Jones
Johnny Jones (born March 30, 1961)
Current position: Head men’s head basketball coach
Current team: Texas Southern Tigers
Current conference: Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC)
Memphis record: 15-16 (.484)
North Texas record: 190-146 (.565)
LSU record: 90-72 (.556)
Texas Southern record: 106-90 (.541)
Overall record: 402-323 (.554)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 6 (2007, 2010, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2014)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2019, 2024)
- SWAC Regular Season Champion: 0
- Sun Belt Regular Season Champion: 1 (2010)
- SWAC Tournament Champion: 3 (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Sun Belt Tournament Champion: 2 (2007, 2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2018-present | Texas Southern |
| 2017-2018 | Nevada (assoc. HC) |
| 2012-2017 | LSU |
| 2001-2012 | North Texas |
| 2000-2001 | Alabama (asst) |
| 1999-2000 | Memphis |
| 1997-1999 | Memphis (asst) |
| 1984-1997 | LSU (asst) |
Johnny Jones Facts
- John Henry Jones, Jr.
- Born March 30, 1961
- Hometown: DeRidder, Louisiana
- Alma Mater: Louisiana State University (BA, 1985)
- Played four seasons for the LSU Tigers under HOF head coach Dale Brown; was on the 1981 team that made the Final Four
- Started his career as an assistant at LSU for 13 seasons under Brown; on staff in 1986 for program’s third trip to the Final Four
- Spent two seasons as an assistant at Memphis under Tic Price before taking over as interim head coach for 1999-2000
- After one season as an assistant under Mark Gottfried at Alabama, became the head coach at North Texas
- Won 190 games and went to two NCAA Tournaments in eleven seasons as the head coach at UNT
- Returned to alma mater, LSU, in 2012 as the Tigers’ new head coach
- Took LSU to one NCAA Tournament and one NIT in five seasons
- Fired in March 2017 following a 10-21 season
- Hired as the associate head coach at Nevada in April 2017, joined the staff of one of his former LSU assistants, Eric Musselman
- Named the head coach at defending SWAC champion Texas Southern in June 2018
- Reached the CIT semifinals in his first season, finishing the year with 24 wins
- From 2021 to 2023, Jones’ led the Tigers to three-straight NCAA Tournaments by way of SWAC Tournament titles
Johnny Jones Coaching Tree
- Alvin Brooks (Lamar)
- Eric Musselman (Arkansas, Nevada)
- David Patrick (Sacramento State, UC Riverside)
- Jai Steadman (Maine, UTRGV)
