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Revision as of 19:19, 15 December 2011
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| Team | High Point |
Scott Cherry is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at High Point University. He replaced Bart Lundy.
High School Career
Cherry played for the Spa Catholic Saints in Saratoga Springs, NY. He played under coach Bob King who is widely considered Spa Catholic's greatest basketball coach of all time. Dean Smith visited the Spa Catholic gym to sign Cherry in 1988.
College career
Cherry played for the University of North Carolina basketball team and coach Dean Smith from 1989 to 1993.[1] He was a senior captain on the Tar Heel team that won the 1993 NCAA Tournament.[1]
Coaching career
Cherry began his coaching career in 1997 as an assistant coach at Bishop McGuinness High School.[2] He then spent one season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Middle Tennessee State.[2] In 1999 he began the first of two stints as an assistant to Jim Larranaga at George Mason.[2] He left the Patriots in 2002 and spent one year as an assistant at Tennessee Tech.[2] He returned to George Mason in 2003 and participated in the Patriots 2006 run to the Final Four.[2]
In 2007 he joined the staff of Darrin Horn as an assistant at Western Kentucky.[2] Cherry followed Horn to South Carolina for the 2008–09 season.[2] He was named the head coach of High Point on March 26, 2009.[3]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| High Point (Big South) (2009–present) | |||||||||
| 2009–2010 | High Point | 15–15 | 10–8 | 5th | |||||
| 2010–2011 | High Point | 12–18 | 7–11 | 7th | |||||
| 2011–2012 | High Point | 3–6 | 0–1 | ||||||
| High Point: | 30–39 | 17–20 | |||||||
| Total: | 30–39 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ^ a b "2009-10 University of North Carolina Media Guide". 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g "2009-10 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff". 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ "Scott Cherry named High Point coach". 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
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