Cliff Ellis

Cliff Ellis
Cliff Ellis
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Coastal Carolina
Record 8048
Biographical details
Born December 5, 1945 (1945-12-05) (age 65)
Place of birth Marianna, Florida, USA
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
19681969
19691971
19711972
19721975
19751984
19841994
19942004
2007present
Ruckle JHS (asst.)
Niceville HS
Vanguard HS
Cumberland
South Alabama
Clemson
Auburn
Coastal Carolina
Head coaching record
Overall 614385 (.615)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
SEC Regular Season Championship (1999)Championship
Sun Belt Regular Season Championship (1979, 1980)Championship
Big South Regular Season Championship (2010, 2011)
Awards
SEC Coach of the Year (1995, 1999)
ACC Coach of the Year (1987, 1990)
Big South Coach of the Year (2010)

Cliff Ellis (born December 5, 1945) is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at Coastal Carolina University.[1] Going into the 20112012 season, Coach Ellis's 614 victories rank him 50th on the list of all-time career coaching victories in Division 1 basketball.[2] He was national coach of the year in 1999 at Auburn, when his Tigers won 29 games and captured the schools first SEC championship in 40 years. In 1990 he coached Clemson to its only ACC regular-season first-place finish. His South Alabama teams won Sun Belt Conference regular-season championships in 1979, 1980 and 1981. At both Clemson and South Alabama he holds school records for coaching victories and he is the second-winningest coach in Auburn history.[3]

Ellis was born in Marianna, Florida. He is a musician, an author and a gourmet cook. He has even been an ostrich farmer. He and his music group, the Villagers, were one of the Southeast's hottest acts in the mid-1960s. Before he'd ever coached a college game, he had published a book on the 131 zone press.[1]

Contents

Coaching career

High school

  • Assistant coach at Ruckle Junior High in Niceville, Florida (19681969)[1]
  • Assistant coach at Niceville High in Niceville, Florida (19691971)[1]
  • Head coach at Vanguard High in Ocala, Florida (19711972)[1]

College

Cumberland

Ellis was head coach and Athletic Director at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee from 1972 to 1975.[1]

South Alabama

Ellis was head coach at the University of South Alabama from 1975 to 1984.[1] He is the all-time winningest coach in South Alabama history with a 17184 during nine seasons.[4] When Ellis became head coach, the administrators at South Alabama were thinking of dropping to Division II. Four years later, he had the Jaguars in the NCAA Tournament and six seasons later, they were ranked in the nation's top 10.[4]

Ellis, also was the athletic director during part of his tenure, led the Jaguars to three Sun Belt titles, two NCAA Tournament appearances and two NITs.[4]

Clemson

On April 3, 1984 the former South Alabama coach was named the head basketball coach at Clemson University. In 10 years at Clemson, Ellis led the Tigers to postseason play eight times, including three NCAA Tournaments. His best team was the 1989-90 unit, which tallied the only Atlantic Coast Conference regular season title in school history and made it all the way to the Sweet Sixteen--the second-deepest NCAA Tournament run in school history. He was a two-time ACC Coach of the Year (1987 and 1990).[4] He is currently the winningest coach in Clemson history.

Auburn

Ellis led the Tigers to the 1999 SEC Championship with a 294 record, the most wins ever recorded by a Division I team in the state of Alabama. The Tigers reached the Sweet 16 in 199899 and in 200203 under Ellis. Ellis coached Auburn to the top three single season victory marks in school history, with the 199899 season, the 19992000 season when Auburn went 2410, and the 200203 season where Auburn went 2212.[4]

Ellis claimed his 500th career Division I coaching victory in a 10071 win over Georgia State November 26, 2002, to become only the 34th coach to reach the milestone since the NCAA started Division I play in 194849.[4]

At the end of the 200304 season, Ellis resgined from his position at Auburn. He remained in the Auburn community, where his wife Carolyn ran for a state legislature seat in 2006.

Coastal Carolina University

On Monday, July 2, 2007, Ellis was named Coastal Carolina's head basketball coach.

In the 200910 season, he led the Chanticleers to the school's first conference championship since 199091. Coastal set new school records for victories in conference play (15) and the regular season (26) in the process.

In the 20102011 season, he led the Chanticleers to the school's second conference championship since 190091. Coastal Carolina (286) made its second straight trip to the NIT after earning an automatic bid by winning the Big South regular season title with a 162 mark inside the conference. The Chanticleers opened league play with 15 straight victories and went on to set an all-time Big South record for conference wins in a season.

Its the second straight season that Coastal Carolina has captured the Big South regular season title and the first time since the 1990 and 1991 seasons that the Chanticleers have won consecutive league titles.

The Chanticleers were also a perfect 90 on the road in conference this season and became just the second team in league history to accomplish that feat. In addition, the Chants are also the first team in conference history to win five Big South road games by at least 20 points. Coastal won by 22 at VMI (Jan. 6), 21 at UNC Asheville (Jan. 20), 24 at High Point (Jan. 27), 23 at Radford (Jan. 29) and 20 at Presbyterian (Feb. 10).

Coastal Carolina is also the first team in Big South history to win at least 25 games in back-to-back seasons and also now owns the conference record for the most wins in consecutive seasons with 56.

During the 20102011 season, Coastal Carolina owned the nation's longest win streak with 22 wins.

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
South Alabama (Sun Belt Conference) (19751984)
197576 South Alabama 189 n/a n/a
197677 South Alabama 1710 33 3rd
197778 South Alabama 1810 37 4th
197879 South Alabama 207 100 1st NCAA 1st round
197980 South Alabama 236 122 1st NCAA 1st round
198081 South Alabama 256 93 1st NIT Quarterfinals
198182 South Alabama 1216 28 6th
198283 South Alabama 1612 68 5th
198384 South Alabama 228 95 2nd NIT 2nd round
South Alabama: 17184 5436
Clemson (Atlantic Coast Conference) (19841994)
198485 Clemson 1613 59 T6th NIT 1st round
198586 Clemson 1915 311 7th NIT Quarterfinals
198687 Clemson 256 104 2nd NCAA 1st round
198788 Clemson 1415 410 7th NIT 1st round
198889 Clemson 1911 77 6th NCAA 2nd round
198990 Clemson 259 104 1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
199091 Clemson 1117 212 7th
199192 Clemson 1414 412 9th
199293 Clemson 1713 511 7th NIT 2nd round
199394 Clemson 1816 610 T7th NIT Quarterfinals
199495 Clemson 1513 511 T6th NIT 1st round
Clemson: 193142 6187
Auburn (SEC West) (19942004)
199495 Auburn 1613 79 4th NIT 1st round
199596 Auburn 1913 610 T4th NIT 1st round
199697 Auburn 1615 610 T3rd
199798 Auburn 1614 79 3rd NIT 2nd round
199899 Auburn 294 142 1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
199900 Auburn 2410 97 2nd NCAA 2nd round
200001 Auburn 1814 79 T4th NIT 2nd round
200102 Auburn 1215 412 6th
200203 Auburn 2212 88 T2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
200304 Auburn 1414 511 T4th
Auburn: 186125 7387
Coastal Carolina (Big South Conference) (2007present)
200708 Coastal Carolina 1315 68 T5th
200809 Coastal Carolina 1120 513 7th
200910 Coastal Carolina 287 153 1st NIT 1st round
201011 Coastal Carolina 286 162 1st NIT 1st round
Coastal Carolina: 8048 4226
Total: 630399

      National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion
      Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion

Awards

  • 1987 ACC Coach of the Year
  • 1987 Kodak (NABC) District III Coach of the Year
  • 1990 ACC Coach of the Year
  • 1990 Kodak (NABC) District III Coach of the Year
  • 1990 UPI ACC Coach of the Year
  • 1990 US Basketball Writers District III Coach of the Year
  • 1995 SEC Coach of the Year
  • 1999 National Coach of the Year
  • 1999 SEC Coach of the Year
  • 2000 National Coach of the Year Finalist
  • 2003 Inductee Mobile Sports Hall of Fame
  • 20092010 Big South Conference Coach of the Year

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