Lennie Acuff
Lennie Acuff (born January 24, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Lipscomb Bisons
Current conference: ASUN Conference
Belhaven College record: 31-35 (.470)
Berry College record: 65-64 (.504)
Alabama-Huntsville record: 437-214 (.671)
Lipscomb record: 85-72 (.541)
Overall record^: 618-385 (.616)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- ASUN Regular Season Champion: 0
- GSC (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 8 (2000, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)
- ASUN Tournament Champion: 0
- GSC (Div II) Tournament Champion: 3 (2012, 2015, 2017)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 11 (2000, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)
Awards:
- GSC (Div II) Coach of the Year: 8 (1999, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2019-present | Lipscomb |
| 1997-2019 | Alabama-Huntsville |
| 1993-1997 | Berry College |
| 1990-1992 | Belhaven College |
Lennie Acuff Facts
- Lennie Acuff
- Born January 24, 1965
- Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama
- Alma Mater: Shorter College (BA, 1988)
- The Huntsville, AL-native played at Shorter College (now University) in Rome, Georgia
- Became the youngest head coach (25 y/o) at a four-year school in 1990 when he was hired at Belhaven College (Jackson, MS)
- Spent four years as the head coach at then NAIA Berry College (GA), going 65-64 during that tenure
- Returned to his hometown in 1997, when he became the head coach at Division II Alabama-Huntsville
- Coached the UAH Chargers for 22 seasons, compiling a 437-214 overall record at the helm
- Reached the D-II NCAA Tournament eleven times and won eight Gulf South titles and three Gulf South Tournaments
- Left UAH as the winningest coach in both program and Gulf South Conference history
- Named the Gulf South Coach of the Decade (2010s) and inducted into the UAH Athletics HOF (class of 2023)
- Hired in April 2019 to be the new head coach at Lipscomb, his first job at a Division I program
- Went 16-16 and reached the ASUN Tournament final in his first season
- Through five seasons at the helm, Acuff is 85-72 overall and has won 20 games on two occasions
- Acuff began a term as President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in April 2023
Lennie Acuff Coaching Tree
- Kevin Carroll (Trevecca Nazarene, Maryville)
- Daniel Harris (Davis & Elkins)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and NAIA levels