Monte Towe (born September 27, 1953)
Teams coached: New Orleans Privateers
New Orleans record: 70-78 (.473)
Overall record^: 70-78 (.473)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
Awards:
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award: 1 (1975)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2011-2014 | Middle Tennessee (asst) |
2006-2011 | NC State (assoc. HC) |
2001-2006 | New Orleans |
1999-2001 | Santa Fe CC |
1996-1999 | UNC Asheville (asst) |
1995-1996 | Chipola CC |
1994-1995 | Sioux Falls Skyforce (asst) |
1980-1989 | Florida (asst) |
1978-1980 | NC State (asst) |
Monte Towe Facts
- Monte Corwin Towe
- Born September 27, 1953
- Hometown: Converse, Indiana
- Alma Mater: North Carolina State University (BA, 1975)
- Graduated from Oak Hill HS in Converse, IN and went on to play for head coach Norm Sloan at NC State
- Started at PG for the 1973-74 Wolfpack team that won the National Championship; Towe was named All-ACC
- Played with Hall of Famer David Thompson at NC State; the two of them are credited with popularizing the “alley oop” play
- In 1975, Towe won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the best player in college basketball under 6’0″ tall
- Inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002
- Drafted by the Denver Nuggets (ABA) and Atlanta Hawks (NBA) in 1975, electing to sign with the Nuggets
- Played two seasons in Denver alongside Thompson for head coach Larry Brown; was an ABA All-Star in 1976
- Started his coaching career in 1978 as an assistant under Sloan at his alma mater; worked there for two seasons
- Followed Sloan to Florida in 1980 and worked with the Gators as an assistant coach for nine seasons
- Coached professional basketball for a few years, spending time as the head coach of the Raleigh Bullfrogs (1991-92) and Fayetteville Flyers (1992-93) of the short-lived Global Basketball Association and of Marinos B.B.C. in Venezuela (1993)
- Returned to the US in 1994 and spent one season as an assistant with the Sioux Falls Skyforce in the CBA
- Was the head coach at two different junior colleges: Chipola (FL) in 1995-96 and Santa Fe CC (FL) from 1999-2001
- In between, he spent three seasons as an assistant under Eddie Biedenbach at UNC Asheville
- Hired as the head coach at New Orleans in 2001, leading the Privateers to a 70-78 overall record in five seasons at the helm
- Left UNO in 2006 to become the associate head coach for Sidney Lowe at NC State; Lowe was a player for the Wolfpack during Towe’s second season (1979-80) as an assistant under Sloan
- NC State went to two NITs but no NCAA Tournaments in five seasons under Lowe and the staff was let go in 2011
- Towe then joined the coaching staff of Kermit Davis at Middle Tennessee as an assistant coach
- As of 2021, Towe is serving as the head boys’ basketball coach at his Oak Hall Academy in Gainesville, Florida
Monte Towe Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only