- Kevin Mackey
College coach infobox
Name = Kevin Mackey
| Caption =
DateOfBirth = birth date and age|1946|08|21
Birthplace =
DateOfDeath =
Sport =Basketball
College =Saint Anselm College
Title =Head coach
OverallRecord = 142-69 (.673)
Awards = AMCU-8 Coach of the Year (1985, 1986)
USBL Coach of the Year (1997, 1999)
IBA Coach of the Year (1999)
Championships = AMCU-8 Regular Season Championship (1985, 1986)
AMCU-8 Tournament Championship (1986)
USBL Championship (1997, 1998, 1999)
IBA Championship (1999)
CFbDWID =
Player =
Years =
Team =
Position =
Coach = Head Coach
CoachYears = 1983-1990
1991 1998-2000
CoachTeams = Cleveland State
Miami Tropics
Atlantic City Seagulls
Mansfield HawksKevin Mackey (born
August 21 ,1946 ) is a former head coach of men'sbasketball atCleveland State University . Although several low moments of his life were made public, Mackey was also a popular symbol of success when his CSU Vikings upset theIndiana Hoosiers to make the Sweet 16 in the1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament .ports career
Mackey coached at Cleveland State University from 1983 to 1990 and posted a record of 144 wins and 67 losses. His teams made two
National Invitation Tournament appearances and averaged more than 20 wins per season.Following his arrest in 1990 (see below) Mackey left CSU but went on to a successful career in Minor league basketball. In 1991, he was a mid-season replacement coach for the
Miami Tropics of theUnited States Basketball League and led the team to the title game. In 1996 he coached the Portland (Maine) Mountain Cats to the Final Four of the USBL. Following his stint with the Mountain Cats, Mackey captured three consecutive USBL Championships, with the Atlantic City Seagulls, something no other coach in the USBL has done.He also coached Trenton New Jersey of the I.B.C., Jacksonville of the USBL and was National Director of Scouting for Hoops Global and Director of Player Personnel for Pro Basketball USA. In 1999, he again surfaced as a head coach, this time in professional basketball where he led the
Mansfield Hawks to theInternational Basketball Association championship in his first season.In 2004, he was a first-year scout for the
Indiana Pacers of theNBA [ [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2004-01-21-mackey-resurrection_x.htm USATODAY.com - Kevin Mackey gets back on track ] ] .Head coaching record
CBB Yearly Record Start
type=coach
conference=
postseason=
poll=noCBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Cleveland State
startyear=1983
conference=AMCU-8
endyear=1990CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1983-1984
name = Cleveland State
overall = 14-16
conference = 4-10
confstanding = 7th
postseason =
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
season = 1984-1985
name = Cleveland State
overall = 21-8
conference = 11-3
confstanding = 1st
postseason =
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = confboth
season = 1985–1986
name = Cleveland State
overall = 29-4
conference = 13-1
confstanding = 1st
postseason = NCAA, Sweet Sixteen
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1986-1987
name = Cleveland State
overall = 25-8
conference = 10-4
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = NIT, Second Round
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1987-1988
name = Cleveland State
overall = 22-8
conference = 11-3
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = NIT, Second Round
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1988-1989
name = Cleveland State
overall = 16-12
conference = N/A
confstanding = N/A
postseason =
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1989-1990
name = Cleveland State
overall = 15-13
conference = N/A
confstanding = N/A
postseason =
ranking = no
ranking2 = noCBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Cleveland State
overall = 142-69
confrecord = 49-21CBB Yearly Record End
overall=142-69
poll=noArrest
Excerpt from an SI.com article about his 1990 arrest outside of a crack house: :"Kevin Mackey was far from the only coach to succumb to a substance-abuse problem and run afoul of the law. Mackey was, however, arrested under arguably the most embarrassing circumstances."
:"In the summer of 1990, Cleveland police received a tip that Mackey was using cocaine inside a known crack house. When the police got there, television reporters who monitor their police radios arrived in tow to record Mackey emerging from the house with a prostitute on his arm. Cleveland State fired Mackey a few days later, and after he pleaded no contest to charges of cocaine abuse and driving under the influence, a judge suspended his prison sentence and ordered him to enter rehab for 60 days."
:"Mackey says he is still clean and sober. After bouncing around the subterranean coaching circuit for a number of years, he joined the Indiana Pacers as a scout in 2004."
References
External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20021014123213/mansfieldhawks.com/Pages/Team.html Mackey profile from MansfieldHawks.com]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DB173DF93AA1575BC0A966958260 Option for Ex-Coach]
* [http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:AkixbcAd1lgJ:www.spokesmanreview.com/sports/story.asp%3FID%3D174255+Kevin+Mackey+Cleveland&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=us Experience fuels Mackey's call for help]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
