| Billy Taylor | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Ball State | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 74-107 (. This is a list of American institutions of Higher education in the United States and abroad sorted by region The Ball State Cardinals Basketball team is the basketball team that represent Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m 409) | |
| Championships | ||
| Patriot League Tournament Championship (2004) Patriot League Regular Season Championship (2004) |
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| Awards | ||
| Patriot League Coach of the Year (2003, 2004) | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1991–1995 | Notre Dame | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1998–1999 1999–2002 2002–2007 2007–present |
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Billy Taylor is the head men's basketball coach at Ball State University. Lehigh University is a private, co-educational University located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of The Ball State Cardinals Basketball team is the basketball team that represent Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Ball State University is a state-run research University located in Muncie, Indiana, U He previously held the same position at Lehigh University. Lehigh University is a private, co-educational University located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of
He was the valedictorian at West Aurora High School in Aurora, Ill. Valedictorian is an academic title typically conferred upon the highest ranked student among those being graduated from an educational institution and was recruited by Digger Phelps to play at Notre Dame, though he played under John MacLeod. Richard "Digger" Phelps (born July 4 1941) was the coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball team in the 1970s 1980s and The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame) (ˌnoʊtɚˈdeɪm is a private Roman Catholic Research university located in John Matthew MacLeod (born October 3, 1937 in New Albany Indiana) is an American former Basketball coach in the National Basketball After spending three years working for Arthur Andersen and earing his CPA, he took an assistant coaching position under MacLeod at Notre Dame in 1998. Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche One year later he followed former Lehigh head coach Fran McCaffery to UNC-Greensboro. Lehigh University is a private, co-educational University located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Fran McCaffery (born May 23, 1959) is the current head of the men's basketball program at Siena. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public University in Greensboro, North Carolina and is a constituent institution of the University [1]
In 2002 he was offered the head coaching position at Lehigh, where he spearheaded an 11 game turn around and would eventually lead Lehigh into its first NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament appearance since the Fran McCaffrey era.
In his inaugural campaign, Taylor become the all-time winningest first-year coach in Lehigh history. Coach Taylor and the Mountain Hawks surprised many by winning 16 games, including eight in the Patriot League. Their eleven game improvement over the year before was the second best in all of Division I. For his outstanding efforts, Taylor earned the 2002-03 Patriot League Coach of the Year honors in voting by the league coaches. His 2004-05 team forfeited 14 games, because they played with an ineligible player [2].
In August of 2007 he was offered and took the head coaching position at Ball State.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Lehigh (Patriot League) (2002 — 2007) | |||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Lehigh | 16-12 | 8-6 | 4th | |||||
| 2003–2004 | Lehigh | 20-12 | 10-4 | T-1st | NCAA Opening Round | ||||
| 2004–2005 | Lehigh | 1-28 | 1-13 | 8th | |||||
| 2005–2006 | Lehigh | 19-12 | 11-3 | T-2nd | |||||
| 2006–2007 | Lehigh | 12-19 | 7-7 | T-3rd | |||||
| Lehigh: | 68-83 | 37-33 | |||||||
| Ball State (Mid-American Conference) (2007 — present) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Ball State | 6-24 | 5-11 | 5th | |||||
| Ball State: | 6-24 | 5-11 | |||||||
| Total: | 74-107 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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References
- ^ Taylor Made; Ball State Daily News
- ^ 2007-08 Patriot League Media Guide, page 56
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