Tony Bennett (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tony Bennett (basketball)

American basketball coach and player

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1969

Place of Birth: Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Tony Bennett (basketball)

  • Anthony Guy Bennett (born June 1, 1969) is an American basketball coach and former player.
  • He has been the head men's basketball coach at the University of Virginia since March 31, 2009.
  • He is a three-time winner of the Henry Iba Award for national coach of the year — only the late John Wooden won more — as well as a two-time awardee of similar honors from the AP and Naismith and a four-time ACC Coach of the Year.
  • Bennett has been ranked the top defensive coach in college basketball by sources including a CBS Sports poll of head coaches in 2015, and a list compiled by ESPN Insider in 2018.From his first day at Virginia, he set the goal of building "a program that lasts." Originally inheriting a 10-win team, his Virginia Cavaliers have since had four 30-win seasons; won the NCAA Tournament Championship in 2019; won ACC Tournaments in 2014 and in 2018; and have finished first in the ACC standings four times.
  • Bennett holds school records for single-season wins and career winning percentage at both Virginia and Washington State.
  • Bennett's calm and disciplined style of leadership has led to interest in not only sports but also business media (e.g., Fortune and Inc.).
  • The style of basketball he teaches has often been compared to a boa constrictor choking out opponents, and his teams are known for their unselfish play, defense-first philosophy, and tempo control.As a 5'11" guard, Bennett ranks first in NCAA history for career three-point field goal accuracy at 49.7%, shooting above 50% from range in both his junior and senior seasons.
  • He started for the United States national team at the 1991 Pan American Games, was awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's top player under six feet tall, and was named Academic All-American of the Year as the nation's top basketball student-athlete.
  • Bennett played for the Green Bay Phoenix under his father Dick Bennett, who later took Wisconsin to the 2000 Final Four using an earlier version of the packline defense seen today at Virginia. Bennett played three years in the NBA for the Charlotte Hornets and several more professionally in Australia and New Zealand, where he started coaching.
  • He is just the third former NBA player to win the NCAA Championship as a head coach.
  • The time he spent in Oceania led him to later recruit several players from that region of the world into college basketball, including Aussie Aron Baynes who went on to win an NBA Championship ring with the San Antonio Spurs.

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