Kevin Baggett
Kevin Baggett (born May 3, 1966)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Rider Broncs
Current conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC)
Rider record: 192-183 (.512)
Overall record: 192-183 (.512)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2018)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2015)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2013)
- MAAC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2018)
- MAAC Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- MAAC Coach of the Year: 2 (2015, 2018)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2012-present | Rider |
| 2008-2012 | Rider (assoc. HC) |
| 2006-2008 | Rider (asst) |
| 2004-2006 | UMBC (asst) |
| 2002-2004 | Coastal Carolina (asst) |
| 2000-2002 | Howard (asst) |
| 1998-2000 | Western Kentucky (asst) |
| 1996-1998 | James Madison (asst) |
Kevin Baggett Facts
- Kevin Baggett
- Born May 3, 1966
- Hometown: Burlington, New Jersey
- Alma Mater: Saint Joseph’s University (BA, 1989)
- Played for head coach Jim Boyle at Saint Joseph’s for four seasons
- Started coaching career in 1996, spending the next fourteen seasons as an assistant, largely on the East Coast
- Worked under head coaches Lefty Driesell, Sherman Dillard, Dennis Felton, Frankie Allen, Pete Strickland and Randy Monroe before arriving at Rider in 2006
- Spent his first six years at Rider on the staff of Tommy Dempsey, first as an assistant and then as associate head coach
- Took over as head coach in 2012, leading the Broncs to the 2013 CIT and later the 2015 CBI
- Won a share of the MAAC regular season title in 2018, the program’s first in ten years, earning a spot in the NIT
- Through twelve years at the helm, Baggett is 192-183 overall with seven winning seasons
Kevin Baggett Coaching Tree
- John Griffin III (Bucknell)
- Donyell Marshall (Central Connecticut)