Sport(s) Basketball Role Basketball Player Title Assistant coach Weight 82 kg | Career end 2009 Name Andre McGee Parents Anthony McGee | |
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2010–2012 Louisville (graduate assistant) 2012–2014 Louisville (director of basketball operations) Team coached UMKC Kangaroos men's basketball (Assistant Coach, 2014–2015) Education Canyon Springs High School, University of Louisville | ||
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Andre Jerome McGee (born March 7, 1987) is an American basketball coach and former player who was most recently assistant coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). McGee played college basketball at Louisville under Rick Pitino and one year professionally in Germany before returning to Louisville as an assistant, first a graduate assistant then director of operations.
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- High school career
- College career
- Professional playing career
- Coaching career
- Personal life
- References
He resigned as assistant coach on October 23, 2015; he is the figure at the center of the 2017 University of Louisville basketball scandal.
Andre McGee resigns as assistant coach at UMKC | THE HERD
High school career
He averaged 22.3 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 steals per game as a senior at Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley, California.
College career
McGee was the starting point guard for the 2008-09 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team.
Professional playing career
McGee played 14 games for Phoenix Hagen of Basketball Bundesliga in Germany before leaving the team in December 2009. He averaged 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists and shot 35.4%.
Coaching career
McGee returned to Louisville as a graduate assistant on Rick Pitino's staff in 2010. McGee was promoted to director of basketball operations at Louisville in 2012. After the 2013–14 season, he left Louisville to become an assistant at UMKC under former Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson. It was alleged that during the time McGee was employed at Louisville, he procured strippers and prostitutes for some recruits and their fathers at campus parties from 2010 to 2014. Based on this allegation and a corresponding investigation by the NCAA, Louisville voluntarily withdrew from post-season play for the 2015–16 season.
Personal life
McGee's family has a history of playing college basketball. His father Anthony McGee played basketball at Long Beach State. His oldest brother, Tony McGee, played at Eastern Washington University and older brother Antoine McGee played at the University of Colorado.
Over the course of his high school and college careers, McGee suffered what was identified in college as sickle cell trait.