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-)

• Assoc. HC: Blake Gray (2019-)
• Asst: Alex Fain (2019-)
• Asst: Andrew Steele (2021-)
• Asst: 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	51-103	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.