Joseph Donald Barnett (born January 10, 1944) is an American retired college basketball coach. He was a former head basketball coach at several Division I institutions, the most high-profile being Virginia Commonwealth University, where his most notable win consisted of a buzzer-beater NCAA Tournament win over Jim Calhoun's Northeastern Huskies. He is also well known for being a mentor of Tubby Smith. Most notably, Barnett taught Smith the philosophy of ball-line defense,[2] which is a strategy that requires all defenders to stay between the line of the ball and the baseline. His last head coaching position was in 2004–2005, when Barnett was both the head coach and athletic director at Division II Hawaii Pacific.[3]
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 10, 1944 Meadville, Missouri, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1964–1966 | Winona State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1970–1971 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
| 1971–1972 | High Point |
| 1973–1977 | West Texas State (asst.) |
| 1977–1979 | Louisiana Tech |
| 1979–1985 | VCU |
| 1985–1991 | Tulsa |
| 1994–1999 | Northwestern State |
| 2004–2005 | Hawaii Pacific |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1991–1994 | Tulsa Union HS |
| 1994–1999 | Northwestern State (assoc.) |
| 2000–2004 | Tulane (assoc.) |
| 2004–2005 | Hawaii Pacific |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 356–272[1] |
| Tournaments | 4–7 (NCAA Division I) 0–2 (NIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 4 Sun Belt regular season (1981, 1983–1985) 3 Sun Belt tournament (1980, 1981, 1985) MVC regular season (1987) MVC tournament (1986) | |
| Awards | |
| Southland Coach of the Year (1979) 2x Sun Belt Coach of the Year (1983, 1984) MVC Coach of the Year (1987) | |
Barnett graduated from Winona State University in 1966 with two varsity letters each in baseball and basketball. He was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame in 2002.[4]
Coaching career
editBarnett has a career record of 317–229 (.580) in Division I basketball, including 7 NCAA tournament appearances. During his stay at Virginia Commonwealth, Barnett led the Rams to 5 NCAA tournament appearances, with 4 of those resulting in 1st round victories.[5] In his first two years at Tulsa, he led the Golden Hurricane to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances. Both of those, however, resulted in 1st round exits.[6] That was the last time Barnett made the NCAAs.
Also, Maurice Cheeks, former head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, was recruited by and played under Barnett while he was an assistant coach at West Texas State. While at West Texas State, Barnett is credited with organizing "The Cager Club", a support group that helped the basketball program.
In addition, Tom Izzo was hired by Barnett to be his recruiting coordinator at Tulsa. Izzo left a low-paying student assistant position with Jud Heathcote to take the position with Tulsa. That experiment lasted all of seven weeks before Heathcote called Izzo offering him an assistant coaching position back in East Lansing.
Administrative career
editFrom 1991 to 1994, Barnett was athletic director at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Barnett also served as associate athletic director at Northwestern State while head men's basketball coach from 1994 to 1999. From 2000 to 2004, Barnett was senior associate athletic director for revenue development at Tulane University in New Orleans.[7][8]
Head coaching record
edit| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenoir–Rhyne Bears (NCAA College Division independent) (1970–1971) | |||||||||
| 1970–71 | Lenoir–Rhyne | 17–9 | |||||||
| Lenoir–Rhyne: | 17–9 | ||||||||
| High Point (NCAA College Division independent) (1971–1972) | |||||||||
| 1971–72 | High Point | 13–16 | |||||||
| High Point: | 13–16 | ||||||||
| Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (Southland Conference) (1977–1979) | |||||||||
| 1977–78 | Louisiana Tech | 6–21 | 2–8 | T–5th | |||||
| 1978–79 | Louisiana Tech | 17–8 | 6–4 | T–2nd | |||||
| Louisiana Tech: | 23–29 | 8–12 | |||||||
| VCU Rams (Sun Belt Conference) (1979–1985) | |||||||||
| 1979–80 | VCU | 18–12 | 8–6 | 5th | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
| 1980–81 | VCU | 24–5 | 9–3 | T–1st | NCAA Division I Second Round | ||||
| 1981–82 | VCU | 17–11 | 7–3 | 2nd | |||||
| 1982–83 | VCU | 24–7 | 12–2 | T–1st | NCAA Division I Second Round | ||||
| 1983–84 | VCU | 23–7 | 11–3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Second Round | ||||
| 1984–85 | VCU | 26–6 | 12–2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Second Round | ||||
| VCU: | 132–48 | 59–19 | |||||||
| Tulsa Golden Hurricane (Missouri Valley Conference) (1985–1991) | |||||||||
| 1985–86 | Tulsa | 23–9 | 10–6 | T–2nd | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
| 1986–87 | Tulsa | 22–8 | 11–3 | 1st | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
| 1987–88 | Tulsa | 8–20 | 4–10 | 7th | |||||
| 1988–89 | Tulsa | 18–13 | 10–4 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1989–90 | Tulsa | 17–13 | 9–5 | T–2nd | NIT First Round | ||||
| 1990–91 | Tulsa | 18–12 | 10–6 | 3rd | NIT First Round | ||||
| Tulsa: | 106–75 | 54–34 | |||||||
| Northwestern State Demons (Southland Conference) (1994–1999) | |||||||||
| 1994–95 | Northwestern State | 13–14 | 8–10 | 6th | |||||
| 1995–96 | Northwestern State | 5–21 | 3–15 | 10th | |||||
| 1996–97 | Northwestern State | 13–15 | 8–8 | T–4th | |||||
| 1997–98 | Northwestern State | 13–14 | 10–6 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1998–99 | Northwestern State | 11–15 | 8–10 | T–7th | |||||
| Northwestern State: | 55–79 | 37–49 | |||||||
| Hawaii Pacific Sea Warriors (Pacific West Conference) (2004–2005) | |||||||||
| 2004–05 | Hawaii Pacific | 10–16 | 4–11 | 5th[9] | |||||
| Hawaii Pacific: | 10–16 | 4–11 | |||||||
| Total: | 356–272 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
edit- ^ "Men's Basketball Coaches Career" (Search for J.D. Barnett under the appropriate settings). National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- ^ Medcalf, Myron (2008-11-26). "Tubby Smith's top priority: Guard the ball". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved 2010-04-05.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Campany, Jerry (2005-05-12). "HPU's AD/basketball coach resigns". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- ^ ""J.D." Joseph D. Barnett, Class of 1966". Winona State University. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ "Basketball State". Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
- ^ "Basketball State". Archived from the original on 2007-05-19. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
- ^ "Barnett Completes Tulane External Staff Reorganization". Tulane Green Wave. September 22, 2000. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
- ^ "J.D. Barnett". Tulane. 2004. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". gopacwest.org. Archived from the original on 16 April 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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