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#TUMBB COACHES/SUPPORT STAFF 7 WWW.OWLSPORTS.COM #TUMBB HEAD COACH FACT FiLE Coaching Experience FRAN DUNPHY Temple Head Coach, 2006-present 10th Season - La Salle ‘70 Overall Record: 193-108 Career Record: 503-271 Atlantic 10 Championship (3): 2008, 2009, 2010 Temple Record: 193-108 NCAA Tournament (6): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 One of 24 active NCAA Division I coaches with 500 victories, Fran Dunphy is in his 10th season at the National Invitation Tournament (1): 2015 helm of the Temple men's basketball program. One of the all-time winningest coaches in Philadelphia Big 5 history, Dunphy will become just the fifth coach to win 200 games at two different Division I programs while Phila. Big 5 Champion (4): 2008, also taking both schools to six or more NCAA Tournaments. He will join Lou Henson (New Mexico, Illinois), 2010, 2012, 2013 Rick Pitino (Kentucky, Louisville), Eddie Sutton (Arkansas, Oklahoma State) and Roy Williams (Kansas, North Carolina) in this elite club. A part of Big 5 Basketball for the last six decades, Dunphy starred at La Salle as a player (1967-70) and Penn served on the Explorer staff as an assistant coach before embarking on a 17-year stint as the head coach of Head Coach, 1989-2006 the Penn Quakers (1989-06). He became the first person to serve as the head men's basketball coach at two Overall Record: 310-163 Philadelphia Big 5 institutions when he took over the reins of the Temple program from Hall of Fame coach Ivy League Championships (10): John Chaney on April 10, 2006. All he has done at Temple is win. He ranks fourth on the school's all-time coaching win list with a 193- 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 108 record while guiding the Owls to six NCAA Tournaments, three conference titles and a trip to the 2015 NIT 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 Semifinals in his nine years at the helm. His Temple teams have defeated six Top 10 teams in his tenure and NCAA Tournament (9): 1993, 1994, have appeared in the Top 25 during 24 weeks. Dunphy recorded his historic 500th coaching win in impeccable fashion last season by knocking off 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, Memphis, 80-75, in the American Athletic Conference Quarterfinal round on March 13. His overall record 2005, 2006 stands at 503-271 which includes 16 20-win seasons, 15 NCAA Tournament appearances, 13 conference cham- Philadelphia Big 5 Champion (4): pionships, eight Big 5 titles and one NIT trip. Named Philadelphia Big 5 Coach of the Year in four of his nine seasons at Temple, Dunphy led his sec- 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 ond Owl squad on a late-season run to the Atlantic 10 Championship. He guided the Cherry and White to a Assistant Coach, 1988-89 21-13 overall mark in 2007-08, including a second place A-10 regular season finish with an 11-5 conference record. He followed that by directing his charges in 2008-09 to a 22-12 record, 11-5 in league play, and an- La Salle other conference championship. The 2009-10 season is one that will go down as one of the best in Temple lore. Picked tied for fifth in Assistant Coach, 1979-80, 1985-88 the A-10 preseason poll, Dunphy motivated his charges to their first A-10 regular season title (9th overall) since 2002 with a 14-2 record. The 2010 A-10 and NABC District Coach of the Year brought the Owls back into American U. the national spotlight with the program's first national ranking since 2001, with the team staying in the polls for 13 consecutive weeks. His Owls would go on to become just the second A-10 team to win three consecu- Assistant Coach, 1980-85 tive conference championships while also posting just the fifth perfect Philadelphia Big 5 season in the pro- gram's history. Malvern Prep The number one accomplishment achieved by the 2009-10 Temple team, that finished the season with a #12 ranking in the Associated Press poll, was its 29 victories (against six defeats), which ranks third in the Head Coach, 1975-79 school's history. In 2010-11, Dunphy led the Owls to a 26-8 record, including another 14-2 mark in A-10 play, and a fourth Army straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. This time the Owls, the 7-seed in West Region, defeated 10th-seeded Assistant Coach, 1971-72 Penn State, 66-64, in the second round for the program's first NCAA win since 2001. The Cherry and White game second-seeded San Diego State all they could handle in the next game before falling to the #5/6-ranked Aztecs, 71-64, in double-overtime. Playing Experience It was a great season for Temple as the Owls were ranked among the nation's Top 25 for eight weeks dur- La Salle (1967-70) ing the season, climbing as high as #19 in the January 10 Associated Press poll. The Owls also overcame mid-February injuries to two starters, closing the season with seven wins in their final 10 games. The only losses in that stretch came to NCAA Sweet 16 participants Duke, Richmond and San Diego State. Malvern Prep (1963-66) In 2011-12, despite losing projected starter Scootie Randall for the season and center Micheal Eric for 13 games, Dunphy guided his charges to a 24-8 mark and the program's first outright A10 regular season title since 1989-90. The Owls finished 13-3 in league play and Dunphy earned his second A10 Coach of the Personal Year honor for his efforts. Temple defeated #3/3 Duke to mark its fourth straight season with a win over a Top Birthdate: October 5, 1948 10 opponent, and later cracked the national polls for the third straight year. Hometown: Drexel Hill, Pa. Temple, which also shared the Big 5 title, earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the sec- Residence: Villanova, Pa. ond straight season, and was the fifth-seed in the NCAA Midwest Region. In 2012-13, Dunphy again guided the Owls to another 20-plus win campaign with the Cherry and White Family: wife, Ree; son, J.P. becoming one of eight teams to compete in the last six straight NCAA Tournaments. Temple also knocked off a Top 10 team, this time #3/3 Syracuse, 83-79, at Madison Square Garden (12/22/12) to extend its current na- Education tion’s best record to five straight seasons of defeating a Top 10 foe while being unranked at the time. Temple would finish the campaign with a 24-10 record, advancing to the third round of the NCAA Tour- American University nament before narrowly falling to top-ranked Indiana, 58-52. The Owls capped their final season in the At- Completed coursework toward lantic 10 Conference with a thrilling 84-76 win over #19/21 VCU on CBS to finish tied for third in the league doctorate degree in counseling and with an 11-5 record. The program struggled in 2013-14, its first season in the American Athletic Conference. In a classic re- student development building year, the Owls posted a 9-22 record. The Cherry and White did continue its streak of wins over a na- Villanova University ‘79 tionally-ranked program to seven with a 71-64 upset over #23 SMU. Master of Science, Counseling In 2014-15, Dunphy led his team to the best turnaround among all Division I teams, posting 17 more La Salle University ‘70 wins than the previous season to finish at 26-11 overall and 13-5 in the conference. A signature win over #10 Kansas was among the total as the Owls posted a 77-52 victory over the Jayhawks at the Wells Fargo Center Bachelor of Arts, Marketing (12/22). Malvern Preparatory School ‘66 9 WWW.OWLSPORTS.COM 2015-16 temple men’s basketball The Owls finished the regular sea- round upset of sixth-seed Nebraska in son 23-10, but were surprisingly left out the NCAA Tournament. of the NCAA Tournament. As the #1 In his last eight seasons at Penn, overall seed in the NIT, Dunphy, in his Dunphy guided the Quakers to six Ivy time coaching in the tournament, League titles and a 93-19 league record. guided Temple to wins over Bucknell, From 1999-2001, he led Penn to 25 George Washington and Louisiana Tech straight league wins, including a per- to reach the semifinals, before falling to fect 14-0 mark in 1999-2000. In 2001- Miami at Madison Square Garden. 02, Dunphy's Quakers posted a 25-7 Dunphy was named American Ath- record and won the school's first out- letic Conference Coach of the Year, right city-series title with a perfect 4-0 marking his third conference coach of mark since 1973-74. the year honor (A-10: 2010, 2012). He A full-time educator on and off the also joined Chaney (516) as one of only court, Dunphy is in his eighth year two coaches to win 500 or more games teaching in Temple's prestigious Fox at Big 5 schools. School of Business. He is team-teach- One of the most respected coaches ing an honors course with Dr. Lynne An- in the nation, Dunphy has coached eight derson, entitled, Management, Theory Conference Players of the Year, three Dunphy spoke with legislators on Capitol Hill in September of 2008 to & Practice: From the Locker Room to the Conference Rookies of the Year, five per- demand that Congress pass legislation regulating tobacco products and Board Room.