Mike Jones (born 1965)
Mike Jones (born April 29, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: UNC Greensboro Spartans
Current conference: Southern Conference (SoCon)
Radford record: 174-150 (.537)
UNC Greensboro record: 58-38 (.604)
Overall record: 232-188 (.552)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2018)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 3 (2014, 2015, 2022)
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big South Regular Season Champion: 2 (2019, 2020)
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 0
- Big South Tournament Champion: 1 (2018)
Awards:
- SoCon Coach of the Year: 1 (2023)
- Big South Coach of the Year: 2 (2018, 2020)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | UNC Greensboro |
| 2011-2021 | Radford |
| 2009-2011 | VCU (asst) |
| 2003-2009 | Georgia (asst) |
| 2002-2003 | West Virginia (asst) |
| 2000-2002 | Richmond (asst) |
| 1997-2000 | Furman (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Howard (asst) |
Mike Jones Facts
- Michael Ray Jones
- Born April 29, 1965
- Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
- Alma Mater: Howard University (BS, 1990)
- Father is Jimmy Jones, a 6x ABA All-Star and former Grambling State star
- Played four seasons at Howard under longtime head coach A. B. Williamson
- First coaching job was at Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC, where he worked for four years
- Spent the next seventeen seasons as a Division I assistant coach, spending time under head coaches Mike McLeese (Howard), Larry Davis (Furman), John Beilein (Richmond and WVU), Dennis Felton (Georgia) and Shaka Smart (VCU)
- Hired in June 2011 as the head coach at Radford, his first college head coaching position
- Led the Highlanders to back-to-back CBI appearances in 2014-2015
- Earned a share of the Big South title in 2019 and 2020; won the Big South Tournament in 2018 and earned COY honors
- Went 174-150 overall in ten seasons at the helm, 81-47 over the last four seasons (2017-21)
- In April 2021, Jones was hired as the head coach at UNC Greensboro in the SoCon
- Is 58-38 through three seasons at UNCG, winning 20+ games in both 2022-23 and 2023-24
Mike Jones Coaching Tree
- Donny Lind (Mount St. Mary’s)