David Smart

Dave Smart (born Kingston, Ontario in 1966) is a Canadian basketball coach. He has served as the head men's basketball coach at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario since 1999, leading the Ravens to seven Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championships. Smart has also served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men's national team, working with former NBA player Leo Rautins.

University playing career

Smart grew up in Kingston and Ottawa, and attended Carleton University and Queen's University. He graduated from Queen's with a degree in Sociology, and played three seasons of varsity basketball for the Queen's Golden Gaels, from 1991-92 to 1993-94. He set the all-time school record for highest points per game career average (26.6). Smart also set the highest single-game Queen's scoring mark (43 points).^[1] His career average is one of the highest ever recorded in Canadian university basketball. In the 1992-93 season, Smart became the only Queen's player ever to lead Canada in scoring average, with an average of 29.4 points per game.^[2] He was selected a first team Ontario University Athletics All-Star in all three of his Queen's seasons.^[3]

Smart coached extensively at the high school and club levels, before attending university, and again as a university student.

Coaching career

Rejected for the vacant Queen's men's basketball head coaching job following the 1994 season, Smart was hired as an assistant coach for men's basketball by Carleton in 1997, under head coach Paul Armstrong, and served for two years in that role. Smart became the head coach at Carleton in 1999, when Armstrong was promoted into management.

Wins seven CIS National Titles

Smart led the Carleton Ravens to five consecutive Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championships, from 2003 to 2007 inclusive.^[4] These were the first CIS championships won by Carleton in any sport.

The Ravens' five-year championship streak was broken in 2008 when they were upset 82-80 in double overtime in the CIS semifinals by the Acadia University Axemen; the Ravens, seeded first, had been 32-0 in that season against Canadian teams. Carleton also won the 2009 CIS championship, hosted at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, making the Ravens 19-1 in CIS Final Eight play since 2003. Carleton lost in the 2010 CIS semifinals to eventual champions Saskatchewan Huskies; this tournament was also hosted at Scotiabank Place.^[2]

The CIS Men's Basketball Championships returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2011, after three years at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, and Smart and the Carleton Ravens captured their seventh CIS National Championship in nine years with a victory over Trinity Western University of British Columbia.^[5]

Four-time CIS Coach of the Year

In the 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2010 seasons, Smart was awarded the Stewart W. Aberdeen Memorial Trophy, as the top men's basketball coach in the CIS.^[2][6] Smart won OUA East Division coach-of-the-year awards six times, for the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2010 seasons.^[3][6] Smart has won more than 85 per cent of his games against CIS opposition since 1999. He led the Ravens to a Canadian men's record of 88 consecutive wins in league and playoff games, from 2002-2005. Smart was also an assistant coach with the Canadian national men's basketball team, under former NBA player Leo Rautins.^[4]

References

1. ^ The Queen's Journal, Feb. 11, 1994
2. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.cisport.ca, the men's basketball records section
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.oua.ca, the men's basketball records section
4. ^ ^{a b} "Rautins back as Canada's basketball coach", CBC Sports, May 22, 2007, retrieved 2010-10-31
5. ^ "Ravens beat Trinity Western: CIS Men's Basketball Final"
6. ^ ^{a b} "Carleton Ravens Dominate 2010 CIS Basketball Awards"

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