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Tim Buckley (basketball)
American college basketball coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tim Buckley (born September 10, 1963) is an American college basketball coach.
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Current position | |
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Title | Assistant Coach |
Team | South Carolina |
Conference | SEC |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1963-09-10) September 10, 1963 (age 60) Aurora, Illinois, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1982–1984 | Waubonsee CC |
1984–1986 | Bemidji State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1986–1988 | Bemidji State (assistant) |
1988–1989 | Rockford (assistant) |
1989–1993 | Rockford |
1993–1994 | Wisconsin (assistant) |
1994–1999 | Ball State (assistant) |
1999–2000 | Marquette (assistant) |
2000–2006 | Ball State |
2006–2007 | Iowa (assistant) |
2007–2008 | Marquette (assistant) |
2008–2017 | Indiana (associate HC) |
2019–2022 | UNLV (assistant) |
2022–present | South Carolina (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 143–139 |
Tournaments | 3–1 (NIT) |
Buckley was the head men's basketball coach at Ball State University from 2000 to 2006. He is best known for leading the Cardinals to upset wins over #3 Kansas and #4 UCLA during the 2001 Maui Invitational. Buckley was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa under Steve Alford, who left the Hawkeyes to take the head coaching job at the New Mexico Lobos. Buckley was an assistant coach at Marquette University where he is reunited with former Ball State player and 2006 MAC Freshman of the Year Maurice Acker, who transferred after Buckley was fired. Most recently Buckley spent the last 9 seasons serving as the top assistant and associate head coach for Tom Crean at Indiana University.
Buckley has also served as an assistant coach at Bemidji State (1986–88), Rockford College (1988–89, head coach 1989–93), Wisconsin (1993–94), Ball State (1994–99), Marquette (1999–2000), Iowa (2006–07), back to Marquette (2007–08), and at Indiana University (2008–2017).