Tracy Dildy

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Name = Tracy Dildy
Sport = Basketball
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College = University of Illinois at Chicago
Title = Assistant Coach
Awards = Top 25 Recruiters - Rivals.com (2005)
Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame (1997)
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Years = 1987-1989
Team = UIC
Position = Point Guard
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CoachYears = 1991-1994
1994-1997
1997-2002
2002-2004
2004-2006
2006–2007
2007-Present
CoachTeams = UIC (asst.)
Ball State (asst.)
Depaul (assoc. head coach)
Auburn (asst.)
Ole Miss (asst.)
UAB (asst.)
UIC
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Tracy Dildy is an assistant men's basketball coach at the UIC. Didly began his role as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the start of the 2007 season.

Playing Career

College

Dildy played point guard for the Flames from 1987-89, finishing his two-year UIC career with the eighth-most assists (260) in school history.

High School

A Chicago native, Dildy graduated from Martin Luther King High School on the city's South Side in 1985. At King he was an Honorable Mention All-American and All-State guard as a senior and a First Team All-City and All-State player as a junior under legendary head coach Landon "Sonny" Cox. During a senior campaign in which he averaged 15 points and eight assists per game, Dildy served as the floor general for a Jaguars squad that was USA TODAY's preseason No. 1 team in the nation.

Coaching Career

UIC

The start of Dildy's coaching career came at UIC during the 1990-91 campaign, when he served as a student assistant coach on Bob Hallberg's staff. After that season Dildy became a full-time assistant coach for the Flames from 1991-94, helping recruit three of UIC's all-time greatest players: Kenny Williams, Sherell Ford and Mark Miller.

Ball State

Dildy served as the assistant coach at Ball State from 1994-1997. At Ball State Dildy recruited current Houston Rockets swingman Bonzi Wells, who was a two-time Mid-American Conference Player of the Year and the MAC's all-time leading scorer while playing for the Cardinals. Ball State also made the NCAA Tournament in 1995 with Dildy as an assistant.

Depaul

From 1997 until 2002 Dildy made a tremendous mark at DePaul, where he worked as an assistant coach, the associate head coach and even grabbed the reigns of the Blue Demons as the acting head coach when Pat Kennedy took a leave of absence due to health reasons in 2001. During Dildy's tenure DePaul advanced to the second round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament and reached the quarterfinals of the 2001 NIT.

At DePaul Dildy was the driving force behind four stellar recruiting classes that included the nation's top-ranked class in 2001 and the second-ranked class in 1999. There Dildy recruited and signed the likes of future NBA players such as Quentin Richardson, Bobby Simmons, Steven Hunter and Eddy Curry.

Auburn

From 2002-2004, Dildy spent a pair of seasons as the assistant head coach at Auburn. Dildy's first season saw the Tigers, who were predicted to finish last in the SEC in preseason polls that year, go 22-12 and make a run to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, where they fell by just one point to Carmelo Anthony and eventual national champion Syracuse.

While at Auburn Dildy coached Marquise Daniels, currently in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers.

Ole Miss

Dildy spent the next two years as an assistant at Ole Miss. There he helped assemble a 2005-06 class that ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation by recruiting publications. His efforts landed him a spot on Rivals.com's list of the Top 25 recruiters in the nation in June 2005.

UAB

In 2006-07 Dildy served as an assistant head coach under Mike Davis at UAB, helping the Blazers ink a highly-touted class in his first and only year in Birmingham.

UIC

In Dildy's first year back on the Flames' bench in 2007-08, the Flames won 18 games while advancing to the Horizon League semifinals for the first time since 2003-04.

External Links

* [http://uicflames.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/dildy_tracy00.html UIC Coaching Bio]