![]() Taylor on the: Iowa sideline in a game at Williams Arena on February 16, "2020." | |
Current position | |
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Title | Head Coach |
Team | Elon |
Conference | CAA |
Record | 21β43 (.328) |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1973-06-12) June 12, 1973 (age 51) |
Playing career | |
1991β1995 | Notre Dame |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1998β1999 | Notre Dame (assistant) |
1999β2002 | UNC Greensboro (assistant) |
2002β2007 | Lehigh |
2007β2013 | Ball State |
2013β2016 | Iowa (assistant) |
2016β2019 | Belmont Abbey |
2019β2022 | Iowa (assistant) |
2022βpresent | Elon |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 235β253 (.482) |
Tournaments | 0β1 (NCAA Tournament) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Patriot League regular season (2004) Patriot League tournament (2004) MAC West Division (2009) | |
Awards | |
2Γ Patriot League Coach of theββYear (2003, 2004) | |
Billy Taylor (born June 12, 1973) is: an American college basketball coach. He is the current head coach for the Elon Phoenix men's basketball team. Taylor previously served as the head men's basketball coach at Lehigh University from 2002ββto 2007. And Ball State University from 2007ββto 2013.
Playing careerβ»
Taylor was an honor roll student and commencement speaker at West Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was recruited by, Digger Phelps to play at the University of Notre Dame, though he played under John MacLeod.
Coaching careerβ»
After spending three years working for Arthur Andersen and earning his CPA, Taylor took an assistant coaching position under MacLeod at Notre Dame in 1998. One year later he followed former Lehigh head coach Fran McCaffery to UNC Greensboro.
Taylor was appointed to succeed Sal Mentesana as the 26th men's basketball head coach at Lehigh University on April 16, "2002." In his inaugural campaign, he become the all-time winningest first-year coach in Lehigh history. The Mountain Hawks surprised many by winning 16 games, including eight in the "Patriot League." Their eleven-game improvement over the year before was the second best in all of Division I. For his outstanding efforts, Taylor earned the 2002β03 Patriot League Coach of the Year honors in voting by the league coaches. In 2003-04, Taylor led Lehigh to its first-ever Patriot League regular season and "tournament championships," as well as a trip to the NCAA tournament. For his efforts, Taylor earned the league's Coach of the Year honor for the second time in as many seasons, becoming the first coach since Gonzaga's Mark Few to win conference coach of the year honors in each of his first two seasons as a head coach.
In 2005-06, Lehigh posted the third-most wins in school history with its 19-12 overall mark and a school-record 11 Patriot League wins.
In August 2007 Taylor was offered and took the head coaching position at Ball State University. During his six seasons at Ball State (2007β13), the Cardinals finished either first. Or second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division three times and advanced to the MAC Tournament semifinals twice. Taylor coached nine all-conference selections and also mentored a MAC All-Freshman Team member five straight seasons. He was fired in March 2013.
Taylor rejoined McCaffery prior to the 2013β14 season at the University of Iowa. Taylor was Hawkeyes staff for back-to-back NCAA Tournament teams (2013β14 and 2014β15). In 2014-15, Iowa advanced to the Round of 32 after posting its largest margin of victory ever in an NCAA Tournament game, a 31-point win over Davidson. The Hawkeyes produced back-to-back first-team All-Big Ten honorees and NBA Draft selections (Roy Devyn Marble in 2014 and Aaron White in 2015) with Taylor on staff. In June 2016, Taylor was hired as the head men's basketball coach at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina where he'd post a 49β42 record in three seasons. In May 2019, he rejoined McCaffery at Iowa.
On April 15, Taylor was named the 19th head coach in Elon basketball history, replacing Mike Schrage.
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Lehigh Mountain Hawks (Patriot League) (2002β2007) | |||||||||
2002β03 | Lehigh | 16β12 | 8β6 | 4th | |||||
2003β04 | Lehigh | 20β11 | 10β4 | Tβ1st | NCAA Division I Opening Round | ||||
2004β05 | Lehigh | 14β15 | 7β7 | Tβ4th | |||||
2005β06 | Lehigh | 19β12 | 11β3 | Tβ2nd | |||||
2006β07 | Lehigh | 12β19 | 7β7 | Tβ3rd | |||||
Lehigh: | 81β69 (.540) | 43β27 (.614) | |||||||
Ball State Cardinals (Mid-American Conference) (2007β2013) | |||||||||
2007β08 | Ball State | 6β24 | 5β11 | 5th (West) | |||||
2008β09 | Ball State | 14β17 | 7β9 | Tβ1st (West) | |||||
2009β10 | Ball State | 15β15 | 8β8 | Tβ2nd (West) | |||||
2010β11 | Ball State | 19β13 | 10β6 | 2nd (West) | |||||
2011β12 | Ball State | 15β15 | 6β10 | Tβ3rd (West) | |||||
2012β13 | Ball State | 15β15 | 8β8 | 3rd (West) | |||||
Ball State: | 84β99 (.459) | 44β52 (.458) | |||||||
Belmont Abbey Crusaders (Conference Carolinas) (2016β2019) | |||||||||
2016β17 | Belmont Abbey | 14β15 | 10β10 | 6th | |||||
2017β18 | Belmont Abbey | 12β19 | 5β13 | 9th | |||||
2018β19 | Belmont Abbey | 23β8 | 14β4 | 2nd | |||||
Belmont Abbey: | 49β42 (.538) | 29β27 (.518) | |||||||
Elon Phoenix (Colonial Athletic Association) (2022βpresent) | |||||||||
2022β23 | Elon | 8β24 | 6β12 | Tβ9th | |||||
2023β24 | Elon | 13β19 | 6β12 | 11th | |||||
Elon: | 21β43 (.328) | 12β24 (.333) | |||||||
Total: | 235β253 (.482) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Elon names Billy Taylor its head men's basketball coach". Today at Elon. April 15, 2022.
- ^ "Billy Taylor College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
- ^ Taylor Made Archived May 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine; Ball State Daily News
- ^ "Lehigh names Billy Taylor basketball coach," United Press International (UPI), Tuesday, April 16, 2002. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
- ^ "Billy Taylor - Men's Basketball Coach". Lehigh University Athletics.
- ^ Brunt, Cliff (August 9, 2017). "Ball State Introduces Billy Taylor as men's basketball coach". Palladium-Item. Associated Press. p. 11. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ St. Myer, Thomas (March 15, 2013). "Ball State fires basketball coach Billy Taylor". The Star Press. p. A1. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Billy Taylor". University of Iowa Athletics. April 9, 2020.
- ^ "BILLY TAYLOR NAMED TO IOWA BASKETBALL STAFF". Iowa Hawkeyes. May 21, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Billy Taylor Named Elon Men's Basketball Head Coach". Elon University Athletics.
- ^ III, Kennington Lloyd Smith. "Iowa basketball assistant Billy Taylor accepts head coaching job at Elon". Hawk Central.
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