Ron Hunter
Ron Hunter (born April 7, 1964)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Tulane Green Wave
Current conference: American Athletic Conference (AAC, The American)
IUPUI record^: 274-219 (.556) **
Georgia State record: 171-95 (.643)
Tulane record: 70-74 (.486)
Overall record^: 515-388 (.570) **
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2003, 2015, 2018, 2019)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2014)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2010)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2012, 2017)
- AAC Regular Season Champion: 0
- Sun Belt Regular Season Champion: 3 (2014, 2015, 2019)
- Summit League Regular Season Champion: 1 (2006)
- AAC Tournament Champion: 0
- Sun Belt Tournament Champion: 3 (2015, 2018, 2019)
- Summit League Tournament Champion: 1 (2003)
Awards:
- Gene Bartow Award: 1 (2018)
- Sun Belt Coach of the Year: 1 (2014)
- Summit League Coach of the Year: 2 (2003, 2006)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2019-present | Tulane |
| 2011-2019 | Georgia State |
| 1994-2011 | IUPUI |
| 1993-1994 | Miami (OH) (asst) |
| 1987-1993 | Milwaukee (asst) |
Ron Hunter Facts
- Ronald Eugene Hunter
- Born April 7, 1964
- Hometown: Dayton, Ohio
- Alma Mater: Miami University (BA, 1986)
- Graduated from Chaminade-Julienne HS in Dayton, then played at Miami (OH) under Darrell Hedric and Jerry Peirson
- Started coaching in 1987 as an assistant to Steve Antrim at Milwaukee
- Returned to his alma mater in 1993 and spent one season as an assistant to Herb Sendek
- Hired in 1994 as the head coach at IUPUI, then a NAIA Independent program; the Jaguars moved to D-I starting in 1998
- Hunter won 274 games in 17 seasons at IUPUI, not including 18 wins that were later vacated from the 2003-04 season
- Coached future NBA point guard and Summit POY George Hill from 2004-2008
- Took over the Georgia State program in March 2011
- Has three Sun Belt titles and three Sun Belt Tournaments (leading to three NCAA berths) in eight years with the program
- Left in March 2019 to take over as the head coach at Tulane
- Through four seasons, Hunter is 56-57 overall; his 2022-23 team won 20 games for the first time in ten years
- Along with his wife, Amy, has one son and one daughter
- Son R.J. played at Georgia State and was selected in the first round (28th) by the Boston Celtics in the 2015 NBA Draft
Ron Hunter Coaching Tree
- Matt Crenshaw (IUPUI)
- Todd Howard (IUPUI)
- Kevin Johnson (Southern)
- Joseph Price (Grambling State)
^ overall record include seasons at both the NAIA and NCAA Division I levels (IUPUI was an NAIA independent until 1998)
** Listed records for this coach do not include wins later vacated by the NCAA