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: 65-60 (.520)
Overall record^: 598-373 (.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
• Acuff began a term as President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in April 2023
• Along with his wife, Kelly, has one son and one daughter

Lennie Acuff Coaching Tree

• Kevin Carroll (Trevecca Nazarene, Maryville)

 

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and NAIA levels