Joe Jones (basketball coach)

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Name = Joe Jones
Sport = Basketball
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College = Columbia
Title = Head coach
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Years = 1983–1987
Team = SUNY Oswego
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CoachYears = 1994–1997
1997–2003
2003–present
CoachTeams = Hofstra (asst.)
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Columbia
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Joseph "Joe" Jones is the 20th men's basketball head coach at Columbia University. In 2006-07, his fourth season on Morningside Heights, the Ronkonkoma, New York, native led the Lions to a 7-7 Ivy League finish, their first .500 record since 1999-2000. Their 16-12 overall record was the team's best since 1992-93.

Jones succeeded Armond Hill after the 2002-03 season, when Columbia finished 0-14 in the Ivy League, 2-25 overall. In his first season, the Lions finished 6-8 in the league, 10-17 overall -- the third-best single-season improvement in conference history.

Through five seasons under Jones, Columbia is 27-43 in Ivy play, 63-75 overall.

Jones graduated from Half Hollow Hills West High School in Dix Hills, New York in 1983. He was a four-year letter-winner at State University of New York at Oswego, where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 1987 and a master's degree in counseling in 1989.

Jones began his coaching career with a three-year run as head coach at Long Island's Comsewogue High School. He joined Jay Wright's staff at Hofstra University in 1994 and moved on to Villanova University three years later as an assistant to Steve Lappas. When Wright replaced Lappas at Villanova in 2001, Jones remained on the staff as the assistant responsible for recruiting, game scouting and on-court teaching.

Jones' brother James is the head men's basketball coach at Yale University.

He provided commentary for the halftime show online during the 2008 NCAA tournament

Head coaching record

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startyear=2003
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season = 2003–2004
name = Columbia
overall = 10-17
conference = 6-8
confstanding = T-5th
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championship =
season = 2004–2005
name = Columbia
overall = 12-15
conference = 3-11
confstanding = 8th
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season = 2005–2006
name = Columbia
overall = 11-16
conference = 4-10
confstanding = T-7th
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overall = 16-12
conference = 7-7
confstanding = 4th
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overall = 14-15
conference = 7-7
confstanding = T-4th
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overall = 63-75
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overall=63-75