Pat Kennedy

Pat Kennedy
Sport(s)	Basketball
Biographical details
Born	Keyport, New Jersey, USA
Playing career
1971–1973	King's College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1980 1980–1986 1986–1997 1997–2002 2002–2004 2004–2011 2013-present	Iona (asst.) Iona Florida State DePaul Montana Towson Pace
Accomplishments and honors
Championships Metro Tournament Championship (1991) MAAC Tournament Championship (1982, 1984, 1985) MAAC Regular Season Championship (1983, 1984, 1985)

For the basketball referee, see Matthew "Pat" Kennedy

Pat Kennedy is an American college basketball coach, currently coaching at Pace University. He was previously the men's basketball coach at Towson University, Iona College, Florida State University, DePaul University, and the University of Montana.

Kennedy is a native of Keyport, New Jersey, and attended Red Bank Catholic High School. He is a 1975 graduate of King's College. After college, he became an assistant coach to Jim Valvano at Iona. In 1979 when Valvano left for North Carolina State University, Kennedy took the head job at Iona. In six years, he led the Gaels to two NCAA tournament appearances. He compiled a 124–60 record while at Iona.

After Iona, Kennedy went to Florida State. He would spend 11 years in Tallahassee, leading the Seminoles to 5 NCAA tournament appearances. During his tenure at FSU, he won 202 games and lost 131.

He was appointed to succeed Joey Meyer as head coach at DePaul on June 12, 1997. In 2000, Kennedy led the Blue Demons to their first NCAA appearance in eight years. While in Chicago, he had a record of 67 wins and 85 losses.

In 2002, Kennedy left DePaul to coach Montana. His two year record with the Grizzlies was 23–25 before he left to take the head coaching job at Towson in 2004.

His resignation as Towson's basketball coach was primarily due to a 4-26 season that ended with 19 straight losses, and failing to guide Towson to a winning record during his seven seasons at the school, going 71-144 since arriving in 2004.

On May 7th, Kennedy accepted the job at Pace, a Division II school who competes in the Northeast-10 Conference.

College Coaching Record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Iona (MAAC) (1980–1986)
1980-81	Iona	12-14	N/A	N/A
1981-82	Iona	20-9	N/A	N/A
1982-83	Iona	21-9	N/A	N/A
1983-84	Iona	22-8	N/A	N/A	NCAA First Round
1984-85	Iona	25-5	N/A	N/A	NCAA First Round
1985-86	Iona	14-15	N/A	N/A
Iona:		114-60	N/A
Florida State (Metro Conference / ACC) (2011–present)
1986-87	Florida State	19-11	6-6	N/A	NIT Second Round
1987-88	Florida State	19-11	7-5	N/A	NCAA First Round
1988-89	Florida State	22-8	9-3	N/A	NCAA First Round
1989-90	Florida State	16-15	6-8	N/A
1990-91	Florida State	21-11	9-5	N/A	NCAA Second Round
1991-92	Florida State	22-10	11-5	N/A	NCAA Sweet 16
1992-93	Florida State	25-10	12-4	N/A	NCAA Elite Eight
1993-94	Florida State	13-14	6-10	N/A
1994-95	Florida State	12-15	5-11	N/A
1995-96	Florida State	13-14	5-11	N/A
1996-97	Florida State	20-12	6-10	N/A	NIT Runner-Up
Florida State:		202-131	82-78
DePaul (Conference USA) (1997–2002)
1997-98	DePaul	7-23	N/A	N/A
1998-99	DePaul	19-13	N/A	N/A
1999-00	DePaul	22-12	N/A	N/A	NCAA First Round
2000-01	DePaul	12-18	N/A	N/A
2001-02	DePaul	9-19	N/A	N/A
DePaul:		68-85
Montana (Big Sky Conference) (2002–2004)
2002-03	Montana	13-17	7-7	4th
2003-04	Montana	10-18	6-8	7th
Montana:		23-25	13-15
Towson (Colonial Athletic Association) (2004–2011)
2004-05	Towson	5-24	2-16	10th
2005-06	Towson	12-16	8-10	8th
2006-07	Towson	15-17	8-10	8th
2007-08	Towson	13-18	7-11	9th
2008-09	Towson	12-22	5-13	10th
2009-10	Towson	10-21	5-13	8th
2010-11	Towson	4-26	0-18	12th
Towson:		67-118	39-78
Pace (Northeast-10 Conference) (2013–present)
2013-14	Pace
Total:		472-430
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

External links

• Pat Kennedy bio