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![]() Wolff at Virginia Tech in 2013 | |
Current position | |
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Title | Director of operations |
Team | Old Dominion |
Conference | Conference USA |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1955-03-01) March 1, 1955 (age 69) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1973β1975 | LSU |
1976β1978 | UConn |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1980β1982 | Connecticut College |
1982β1985 | St. Bonaventure (assistant) |
1985β1989 | Wake Forest (assistant) |
1989β1990 | SMU (assistant) |
1990β1994 | Virginia (assistant) |
1994β2009 | Boston University |
2009β2010 | Virginia Tech (assistant) |
2010β2016 | Virginia Tech (women's) |
2016βpresent | Old Dominion (director of ops) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 277β215 (men's) 62β93 (women's) |
Tournaments | 0β2 (NCAA Division I) 0β3 (NIT) 1β1 (WNIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3Γ America East Regular Season (2002β2004) 2Γ America East Tournament (1997, 2002) | |
Awards | |
3Γ America East Coach of the Year (1997, "2003," 2004) | |
Dennis Wolff (born March 1, 1955) is an American basketball coach whose most recent coaching position was with the Virginia Tech Hokies women's team. The role is Wolff's first job coaching women's team. Priorββto the role, Wolff served as director of basketball operations and assistant to the head coach for the Virginia Tech men's team. He is the former head coach of men's basketball at Boston University, a position from which he was fired on March 11, "2009," after 15 seasons.
Wolff, a native of New York City, finished his collegiate basketball career at UConn after playing two years at LSU. He became the head coach at Boston University following the 1993β94 season, taking over for Bob Brown. He was previously the head coach at Connecticut College, where he coached from 1980 to 1982. In between his head coaching jobs, Wolff was an assistant at St. Bonaventure, Wake Forest, SMU, and the University of Virginia. Wolff left BU with a record of 247β197, the most wins in school history. His career overall record is 277β215 in men's college basketball and 62β93 in women's.
The following season, Wolff was the Director of Operations for Virginia Tech under Seth Greenberg.
That following season, athletic director Jim Weaver named him the new Virginia Tech women's basketball coach.
After bringing the Virginia Tech women's basketball team to the postseason, making the NIT, for the first time since 2006β07, Wolff was fired on March 22, 2016.
In June 2016, Wolff was named Director of basketball Operations for Old Dominion University by head coach Jeff Jones.
Familyβ»
Wolff and "his wife," JoAnn, have three children: Nicole, Matthew and Michael. Nicole played for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, while Matthew played for his father at Boston University and is an assistant coach at American University. Michael played hockey at Brown University.
Head coaching recordβ»
Men'sβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Connecticut College Camels (NCAA Division III independent) (1980β1982) | |||||||||
1980β81 | Connecticut College | 16β8 | |||||||
1981β82 | Connecticut College | 14β10 | |||||||
Connecticut College: | 30β18 | ||||||||
Boston University Terriers (America East Conference) (1994β2009) | |||||||||
1994β95 | Boston University | 15β16 | 7β9 | Tβ4th | |||||
1995β96 | Boston University | 18β11 | 13β5 | 2nd | |||||
1996β97 | Boston University | 25β5 | 17β1 | 1st | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
1997β98 | Boston University | 19β11 | 12β6 | Tβ1st | |||||
1998β99 | Boston University | 9β18 | 5β13 | 8th | |||||
1999β00 | Boston University | 7β22 | 5β13 | Tβ8th | |||||
2000β01 | Boston University | 14β14 | 9β9 | 5th | |||||
2001β02 | Boston University | 22β10 | 13β3 | Tβ1st | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
2002β03 | Boston University | 20β11 | 13β3 | Tβ1st | NIT First Round | ||||
2003β04 | Boston University | 23β6 | 17β1 | 1st | NIT Opening Round | ||||
2004β05 | Boston University | 20β9 | 14β4 | 3rd | NIT First Round | ||||
2005β06 | Boston University | 12β16 | 9β7 | Tβ3rd | |||||
2006β07 | Boston University | 12β18 | 8β8 | 3rd | |||||
2007β08 | Boston University | 14β17 | 9β7 | 6th | |||||
2008β09 | Boston University | 17β13 | 11β5 | 3rd | |||||
Boston University: | 247β197 | 162β94 | |||||||
Total: | 277β215 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Women'sβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Virginia Tech Hokies (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2011β2016) | |||||||||
2011β12 | Virginia Tech | 7β23 | 3β13 | 13th | |||||
2012β13 | Virginia Tech | 10β20 | 4β14 | 12th | |||||
2013β14 | Virginia Tech | 14β16 | 4β12 | 12th | |||||
2014β15 | Virginia Tech | 12β20 | 1β15 | 14th | |||||
2015β16 | Virginia Tech | 18β14 | 5β11 | 11th | WNIT Second Round | ||||
Virginia Tech: | 62β93 | 17β65 | |||||||
Total: | 62β93 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ Dennis Wolff named Tech women's basketball coach Archived 2011-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 26, 2011
- ^ "hokiesports.com :: Women's Basketball :: Dennis Wolff". www.hokiesports.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12.
External linksβ»
- Old Dominion profile Archived 2018-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- 1955 births
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