Playing career | |
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1999–2003 | South Carolina State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2005–2006 | Tennessee State (GA) |
2005–2006 | LeMoyne–Owen (assistant) |
2006–2007 | South Carolina State (assistant) |
2007–2009 | Northwest Florida State (assistant) |
2009–2011 | Georgia Southern (assistant) |
2011–2014 | Jacksonville (assistant) |
2014–2015 | West Nassau HS |
2015–2016 | Florida A&M (assistant) |
2016–2019 | North Carolina A&T (assistant) |
2019–2022 | North Carolina A&T |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 37–35 (.514) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
MEAC Coach of the Year (2020) | |
Willie Jones is an American college basketball coach. He was most recently the head coach for North Carolina A&T Aggies from 2019 to 2022. Jones became the interim coach of the Aggies on December 24, 2019 for Jay Joyner, when the team was a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and led the team to a 14–5 overall record and a second place MEAC finish. Jones was named MEAC Coach of the Year for the 2019–20 season.[1]
Jones was elevated to the head coach spot on June 18, 2020.[2] On August 18, 2022, Jones was fired and succeeded by assistant coach Phillip Shumpert.[3]