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James Jones (basketball coach)

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Sport(s)
  
Basketball

1995–1997
  
Yale (asst.)

Siblings
  
Joe Jones

Title
  
Head coach

1997–1999
  
Ohio (asst.)

Nieces
  
Sydney Jones

1982–1986
  
Albany

Name
  
James Jones

Nephews
  
JJ Jones

1990–1995
  
Albany (asst.)

Role
  
Basketball Coach


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Born
  
February 20, 1964 (age 60) Long Island, New York (
1964-02-20
)

Education
  
University at Albany, SUNY

Team
  
Yale Bulldogs Men's Basketball

Similar People
  
Javier Duren, Joe Jones, Brandon Sherrod, Jeremiah Kreisberg, Matt Townsend

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James Fitzgerald Jones (born February 20, 1964) is an American college basketball coach and the current basketball coach at Yale University.

Born in Long Island, Jones played college basketball at SUNY Albany and worked as a sales executive for NCR Corporation before beginning his coaching career. Jones succeeded Dick Kuchen as 22nd men's basketball head coach of Yale University on April 27, 1999. On March 17, 2016, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fifth-seeded Baylor University Bears in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

His brother, Joe Jones, is the current men's basketball head coach at Boston University and was previously the men's basketball head coach at Columbia University.

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