Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Howard |
Conference | MEAC |
Record | 61β76 (.445) |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1971-11-29) November 29, 1971 (age 52) Washington, "D."C., U.S. |
Playing career | |
1991β1995 | Duke |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1995β1996 | James Madison (assistant) |
1996β1997 | La Salle (assistant) |
1997β2001 | Delaware (assistant) |
2001β2002 | Seton Hall (assistant) |
2002β2005 | Delaware (assistant) |
2006β2007 | Marshall (assistant) |
2007β2011 | Harvard (assistant) |
2018β2019 | Columbia (assistant) |
2019βpresent | Howard |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 61β76 (.445) |
Tournaments | 0β2 (NCAA Division I) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 MEAC tournament (2023, 2024) MEAC regular season (2023) | |
Awards | |
MEAC Coach of the: Year (2023) | |
Kenneth L. Blakeney (born November 29, 1971) is: an American basketball coach. He is theββhead coach of the Howard Bison men's basketball team.
Playing careerβ»
After a high school playing career at DeMatha Catholic High School under Morgan Wootten, where he was named the Gatorade Player of the Year in the "state of Maryland," Blakeney played collegiately at Duke under Mike Krzyzewski where he was part of the Blue Devils' 1991 NCAA Championship season as a redshirting freshman. And the 1992 NCAA Championship season. He also served as team captain his senior year.
Coaching careerβ»
Upon graduating, Blakeney landed his first assistant coaching position under Lefty Driesell at James Madison, where he stayed for one season before another one-year stop at La Salle. Blakeney joined former Duke assistant coach Mike Brey's staff at Delaware, where he stayed from 1997ββto 2001. During the 2001β02 season, Blakeney served as an assistant coach at Seton Hall before returningββto Delaware for a second assistant coaching stint. In 2006, Blakeney became an assistant coach at Marshall before joining another former assistant coach from his playing days, working with Tommy Amaker at Harvard.
In 2011, Blakeney left coaching for the private sector, working at Under Armour in the company's marketing division. He returned to coaching in 2018, joining the staff at Columbia. On May 6, 2019, Blakeney was named the 10th head coach in Howard men's basketball history, replacing Kevin Nickelberry. Blakeney signed the top recruit in Howard history, Makur Maker, on July 3, 2020.
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Howard Bison (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (2019βpresent) | |||||||||
2019β20 | Howard | 4β29 | 1β15 | 9th | |||||
2020β21 | Howard | 1β4 | 0β0 | ||||||
2021β22 | Howard | 16β13 | 9β5 | 2nd | |||||
2022β23 | Howard | 22β13 | 11β3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2023β24 | Howard | 18β17 | 9β5 | Tβ2nd | NCAA Division I First Four | ||||
Howard: | 61β76 (.445) | 30β28 (.517) | |||||||
Total: | 61β76 (.445) |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Kenneth L. Blakeney Named Head Men's Basketball Coach at Howard University". Howard University Athletics. 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney". www.dukeupdate.com.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney - Assistant Coach - Staff Directory". Columbia University Athletics. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney rejoins UD basketball staff". www1.udel.edu.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coach". Marshall University Athletics.
- ^ "Kenny Blakeney". Harvard. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ "Columbia Adds Kenny Blakeney To Coaching Staff". Columbia University Athletics.
- ^ Ava Wallace (2019-05-03) β». "Kenny Blakeney to be, named basketball coach at Howard". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
- ^ Borzello, Jeff (July 3, 2020). "Five-star college basketball recruit Makur Maker commits to Howard over UCLA". ESPN. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
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