Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles basketball

Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles basketball history

Tennessee Technological University (Cookeville, TN)
Hooper Eblen Center, aka The Hoop
Ohio Valley Conference (OVC)

Current head coach: John Pelphrey (2019-)

Asst: Alex Fain (2019-)
Asst: Blake Gray (2019-)
Asst: Andrew Steele (2021-)
DBO: Stefan King (2022-)

Post-Season:

National Championships: 0
Final Four Appearances: 0
Sweet Sixteen Appearances: 0
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (1958, 1963)
NCAAT Overall Record: 0-2
NIT Championships: 0
NIT Appearances: 2 (1985, 2002)
NIT Overall Record: 3-2
CIT Appearances: 2 (2011, 2012)
CIT Overall Record: 0-2
Vegas 16 Appearances: 1 (2016)
Vegas 16 Overall Record: 0-1

Conference Titles (Miss Valley, TIAC, Ohio Valley):

Ohio Valley Regular Season Championships: 7 (1956, 1958, 1963, 1985, 2001, 2002, 2005)
Ohio Valley Tournament Championships: 1 (1967)
TIAC (Div II) Tournament Championships: 1 (1947)
Mississippi Valley (Div II) Tournament Championships: 2 (1931, 1932)

Award Winners:

Naismith Player of the Year: 0
John R. Wooden Award: 0
Oscar Robertson Trophy: 0
AP All-Americans: 1 (Jim Hagan, 1959)
Ohio Valley Player of the Year: 2 (last = Willie Jenkins, 2005)

Tennessee Tech head coaches:

Coach	Tenure	Record	Conf. Titles	NCAA Apps.	Nat. Champ
John Pelphrey	2019-Pres	41-82	0	0	0
Steve Payne	2011-19	118-134	0	0	0
Mike Sutton	2002-11	149-130	1	0	0
Jeff Lebo	1998-2002	75-43	2	0	0
Frank Harrell	1988-98	128-154	0	0	0
Tom Deaton	1980-88	106-119	1	0	0
Cliff Malpass	1976-80	34-70	0	0	0
Connie Inman	1969-76	79-94	0	0	0
Kenny Sidwell	1964-69	66-57	0	0	0
John Oldham	1955-64	118-83	3	2	0
Raymond “Bull” Brown	1948-55	74-79	0	0	0
Hooper Eblen	1947-48	18-7	0	0	0
Preston “Putty” Overall	1924-48	311-164	0	0	0

Key: Conf. Titles= Regular Season only, NCAA Apps= NCAA Tournament Appearances, Nat. Champ= NCAA Tournament Champions

NOTE: Overall program records on this page do not include anything later vacated by the NCAA.