COAchES AND Support StAFF Kevin Stallings, Head Coach Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings has taken the COACHING CAREER Commodore basketball program to unparalleled heights 1999–present ........Vanderbilt, Head Coach in his 12 years at the helm, with success coming on the 1994-99 ............ Illinois State, Head Coach floor and in the classroom during his tenure. His teams 1989-93 .......................Kansas, Asst. Coach have advanced to two Sweet 16 appearances, and off 1983-88 .......................Purdue, Asst. Coach the floor, every Vanderbilt senior basketball player has received a degree. His teams have also made Memorial SEC Coach of the Year, 2007 and 2010, Gym, already one of the most unique arenas in America, NABC District 21 Coach of the Year, a hostile and very challenging place for opposing teams. 2010, NABC District 7 Coach of the This kind of success comes as no surprise to the Year, 2007. players who put on the Vanderbilt jersey when adjectives like competitive, personable, passionate, intense, honest, hard-working, knowledgeable PLAYING CAREER and prepared describe their coach and the program they represent. Twelve seasons into his stay in Nashville, Stallings has Vanderbilt in rarefied air in 1980-82 ............................................ Purdue college basketball circles with eight postseason appearances, two NCAA Tournament Helped Purdue advance to Final Four in Sweet 16 appearances in 2004 and 2007, five NCAA Tournament berths and six 20-win seasons. Stallings became the first coach to take two Vanderbilt teams to the Sweet 16 1980. of the NCAA Tournament since the 64-65 team format; and the Commodore mentor has had SEC Players of the Year on his squad in three out of his 12 years in Nashville. FAMILY The list of accomplishments for the current Vanderbilt coach continues to grow: • Stallings became the second Vanderbilt coach in school history to have three Wife, Lisa; Son, Jacob (21), Daughters 20-win seasons (Roy Skinner) after the 2006-07 season. He now has six 20-win Alexa (17) and Jordyn (11) seasons, all in the last eight years, which ties all-time leader Roy Skinner, who also posted six 20-win campaigns. • He was named SEC Coach of the Year by SEC Coaches in 2007 and 2010, only the third coach in Vanderbilt history to win two of the prestigious awards. • Currently stands at 359 career wins and 236 wins in his 12-year tenure as Vanderbilt’s head coach. • He has coached three SEC Players of the Year (coaches) - Dan Langhi in 1999- 2000, Derrick Byars in 2006-07, and Shan Foster in 2007-08 (AP and Coaches). • Now in 16th place amongst winningest coaches in the SEC (at SEC institutions) with 236 Vanderbilt wins, and the second-most winningest active coach in the league. • He coached four SEC Academic Honor Roll members in 2010-11 in Joe Duffy, Chris Meriwether, Aaron Noll, and Jordan Smart. It pushed his total number of SEC Academic Honor Roll selections to 37 during his 12-year tenure. 13th Season •He now has 359 career victories as a head coach, which makes him the third at Vanderbilt current SEC coach with 300 or more wins, and his 236 Vanderbilt wins ranks him College second all-time in the Commodore record books behind Roy Skinner (278; 1959, 1962-76). Purdue In fact, in his 32 years as a player or coach, success has followed Stallings throughout B.A., Business Management & Marketing, his basketball career as a player at Purdue, an assistant at both Purdue and Kansas and 1982 his previous head coaching position at Illinois State. During the time span, Stallings Masters, Counseling, 1985 has been a part of 21 seasons with 20-or-more victories and a basketball season that High School concluded during postseason play 26 times. Collinsville (Ill.) Stallings has guided the Commodores to postseason play in seven out of the last eight seasons and in nine out of his 12 years at Vanderbilt. Included in those appearances are two Sweet 16 berths and back-to-back NCAA appearances in 2007 26 Vanderbilt Basketball 2010-11 COAchES AND Support StAFF Kevin Stallings, Head Coach and 2008 and in 2010 and Stallings’ Overall Record VS. Opponents 2011. The 2010-11 team knocked Akron 1-0 Evansville 10-1 Michigan 1-1 St. Joseph’s 1-0 Alabama 9-6 Fairleigh Dickinson 1-0 Mississippi 9-4 St. Mary’s (Calif.) 3-0 off five teams that advanced Alabama A&M 4-0 Florida 7-19 Mississippi State 8-8 SE Missouri State 1-0 to the NCAA Tournament, Alcorn State 1-0 Florida State 1-1 Missouri 1-1 SW Missouri State 9-5 American 1-0 Furman 2-1 Missouri-KC 1-0 SE Louisiana 2-0 including Kentucky, who American-PR 1-0 George Washington 1-0 Monmouth 0-1 Stetson 1-0 eventually advanced to the Appalachian State 3-1 Georgetown 1-2 Morehead State 2-0 Tennessee 11-14 Final Four. John Jenkins Arizona 1-1 Georgia 15-10 Mount St. Mary’s 1-0 UT-Chattanooga 1-0 Arizona State 0-1 Georgia Southern 1-0 MTSU 3-0 Tennessee-Martin 3-0 emerged as one of the Arkansas 4-10 Georgia Tech 2-2 Nebraska 1-0 Tennessee State 4-0 nation’s top shooters and Auburn 10-5 Grambling St. 1-0 New Orleans 1-0 Tennessee Tech 3-0 Austin Peay 2-0 Hampton 1-0 Nicholls State 1-0 TCU 2-0 led the SEC in scoring and Belmont 4-0 Hawaii 0-1 Notre Dame 1-3 Texas-Pan American 1-0 three-pointers made. Under Birmingham So. 1-0 Hawaii-Hilo 1-0 North Carolina 1-0 Toledo 3-0 Boston College 1-1 High Point 1-0 North Carolina State 1-0 Tulane 1-2 Stallings’ tutelage, Festus Ezeli Bradley 7-6 Hofstra 1-0 UNC Greensboro 1-0 Tulsa 4-2 blossomed into an all-SEC Bucknell 1-0 Houston 1-0 UNC Wilmington 1-1 Utah State 2-0 Butler 0-1 Illinois 0-2 Northeast Louisiana 1-0 Valparaiso 1-0 center, and Jeffery Taylor Cal Poly SLO 1-0 Illinois-Chicago 2-2 Northern Iowa 8-7 Vanderbilt 0-1 continued to be on one of the Cal State Northridge 1-0 Indiana 2-1 Northwestern 2-1 Va. Commonwealth 2-1 Centenary 1-0 Indiana State 10-3 Oakland 1-1 Wake Forest 1-2 premiere perimeter players in Central Arkansas 1-0 IUPUI 2-0 Ohio 2-0 Washington State 1-1 the nation. Central Michigan 1-0 Iona 2-0 Oregon 1-1 West Virginia 0-1 The 2009-10 Commodores Chaminade 1-0 Iowa State 0-2 Pacific 1-0 Western Carolina 1-0 Cincinnati 0-4 Jacksonville State 1-0 Pittsburgh 2-0 Western Kentucky 4-1 finished the season with a College of Charleston 1-0 James Madison 1-1 Presbyterian 1-0 Western Michigan 1-0 24-9 record, and a 12-4 mark Colorado 1-0 Kentucky 9-16 PR-Mayaguez 1-0 Wichita State 12-2 Connecticut 0-3 LaSalle 1-0 Purdue 0-1 William & Mary 1-0 in SEC play, Vanderbilt’s best Creighton 10-2 Lehigh 1-0 Rice 2-0 Wisconsin 1-2 finish in league competition Davidson 1-0 Liberty 1-0 Richmond 0-1 Wisc.-Green Bay 3-1 Dayton 3-0 Lipscomb 3-0 Saint Francis 1-0 Wofford 3-0 since 1993. The Commodores DePaul 3-2 Louisiana-Lafayette 1-0 Santa Clara 0-2 Overall 359-211 also were a handful on the Drake 12-2 Louisiana State 10-6 Siena 0-1 At Home 230-59 Duquesne 0-2 Louisiana Tech 0-1 South Alabama 1-0 On the Road 85-119 road, winning six league games East Carolina 1-1 Manhattan 1-0 South Carolina 11-13 At Neutral Sites 44-33 and sporting a 7-3 mark in Eastern Illinois 1-0 Marquette 1-0 S. Carolina State 1-0 NCAA Tournament 5-7 Eastern Kentucky 1-0 Massachussetts 2-0 South Florida 1-0 NIT 6-6 true road contests. Vanderbilt E. Tennessee State 5-0 Memphis 0-1 Southern Illinois 7-8 In Overtime Games 13-12 swept Tennessee and Florida Elon 1-0 Mercer 1-0 Southern Miss 2-0 for the first time since 1966, and had four players named to an All-SEC postseason team. the 1992-93 team for the most in school advanced to the semifinals of the SEC The 2007-08 edition of the history, and knocked off the No. 1 team Tournament -- all of this before reaching Commodores was one of the most in the nation for the second consecutive the “Big Dance” and concluding its run successful teams of the Stallings era. season. with a 23-10 overall mark. In 2006-07, Vanderbilt reeled off 16 consecutive wins The 2003-04 campaign saw the Vanderbilt had the SEC Player of the Year to start the season, tied for the most wins Commodores advance to their first in Derrick Byars and knocked off seven in regular season history (25), advanced NCAA Tournament since 1993, reaching ranked opponents during the year. to the NCAA Tournament for the second the Phoenix Regional Semifinals before In all, Stallings has coached in eight consecutive year, the first time since 1988- bowing out to Connecticut, the eventual postseason tournaments, four NCAA 89 that has occurred, won 10 games in the national champion; and in 2006-07, tournaments and four NIT’s. The SEC for the second consecutive season, the Commodores knocked off George Commodores reached the NIT in 2000, and saw one of his four-year seniors, Shan Washington and Washington State before 2002, 2005 and 2006; and in 2005, the Foster, capture SEC Player of the Year dropping a 66-65 decision to Georgetown Commodores made the quarterfinals honors, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, in the East Regional Semifinals.