Kevin Willard
Kevin Willard (born April 6, 1975)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Maryland Terrapins
Current conference: Big Ten Conference
Iona record: 45-49 (.479)
Seton Hall record: 225-161 (.583)
Maryland record: 38-30 (.559)
Overall record: 308-240 (.562)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 6 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
- NCAA Sweet Sixteen Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2012)
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big East Regular Season Champion: 1 (2020)
- Big Ten Tournament Champion: 0
- Big East Tournament Champion: 1 (2016)
Awards:
- Big East Coach of the Year: 1 (2016)
- MAAC Coach of the Year: 1 (2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Maryland |
| 2010-2022 | Seton Hall |
| 2007-2010 | Iona |
| 2001-2007 | Louisville (asst) |
| 1997-2001 | Boston Celtics (asst) |
Kevin Willard Facts
- Kevin Willard
- Born April 6, 1975
- Hometown: Huntington, New York
- Alma Mater: University of Pittsburgh (BA, 1997)
- Attended high school in Bowling Green, KY where his father, Ralph Willard, worked as head coach at Western Kentucky
- Started collegiate career at WKU, but transferred to Pittsburgh in 1994 when his father became the Panthers coach
- Spent ten total seasons – four with the Boston Celtics and six more at Louisville – as an assistant to HOF coach Rick Pitino
- Hired in 2007 as the head coach at Iona, where he would turn a 2-win team into a 21-win team in just three seasons
- Became the head coach at Seton Hall in March 2010; went 225-161 over twelve seasons at the helm
- His 2015-16 team won 25 games en route to a Big East Tournament title and NCAA berth
- Led the Pirates to four-straight NCAA Tournaments, winning his first NCAAT game as a head coach in 2018
- Won a share of the 2020 Big East regular season title, the first for the program since 1993
- Left in March 2022 to become the new head coach of the Maryland Terrapins
- Won 22 games in his first season and earned an at-large NCAA Tournament bid
Kevin Willard Coaching Tree
- Grant Billmeier (NJIT)
- Donald Copeland (Wagner)
- Shaheen Holloway (Seton Hall, Saint Peter’s)
- Mike Jones (Old Dominion)
- Dan McHale (Eastern Kentucky)
- Tevon Saddler (Nicholls)
- Tony Skinn (George Mason)