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 | ||
James jones rebounding drills and out of bounds sets
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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