Randy Peele

College coach infobox
Name = Randy Peele
Sport = Basketball

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DateOfBirth = Birth date and age|1957|6|13|mf=y
Birthplace = Norfolk, VA
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College = Winthrop
Title = Head coach
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Championships = Big South Tournament Championship (1996)
Big South Regular Season Championship (1996)
CurrentRecord = 5-4
OverallRecord = 46-69 (.400)
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CoachYears = 1983–1985
1985–1988
1988–1991
1991–1995
1995–1999
1999–2002
2003–2007
2007–present
CoachTeams = Saint Michael's (asst.)
Tennessee-Martin (asst.)
Campbell (asst.)
UNC-Greensboro (asst.)
UNC-Greensboro
Virginia Tech (asst.)
Winthrop (asst.)
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Randy Peele is the head men's basketball coach at Winthrop University. He took over the position vacated by Gregg Marshall in 2007. Peele previously held the same position at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Peele graduated from Virginia Wesleyan College in 1980 with a degree in secondary education. In 1983, he began his coaching career when he accepted an assistant's job at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. After two years in Vermont, Peele spent three years as an assistant with the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks, and another three years with the Campbell Fighting Camels.

In 1991, Peele accepted an assistant's job at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After four years with the Spartans, Peele was promoted to replace former head coach Mike Dement, who had left to take over the men's basketball program at SMU.

In Peele's first season, only the second year in which UNC-Greensboro was eligible for Division I postseason competition, the Spartans won the Big South Conference regular season and tournament championships. In the NCAA tournament, UNC-Greensboro were the 15th seed in the Southeast region, and fell in the first round to the Cincinnati Bearcats.

After 1996, however, Peele had little success with the Spartans. UNC-Greensboro followed up their Big South championship with a 10-20 regular season, and then left the Big South in 1997 to join the Southern Conference.PDFlink| [http://www.uncgspartans.com/downloads1/12775.pdf UNC-Greensboro Spartans men's basketball 2006–2007 media guide] |19.7 MiB ] The Spartans finished at or near the bottom of their division in both of their first two seasons in the SoCon, and after four years in Greensboro, Peele left the Spartans and took an assistant's job with the Virginia Tech Hokies.

Peele spent three seasons under Ricky Stokes in Blacksburg before leaving and spending a season away from coaching. In 2003, he resurfaced in the coaching world, this time as an assistant to Gregg Marshall at Winthrop University. In four seasons at Winthrop, the Eagles won three straight Big South titles, culminating in 2007 with a first-round upset of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the NCAA Tournament.

Following the 2007 season, Marshall left Winthrop to take the vacant head coaching position at Wichita State University. Winthrop's administration wasted little time, and quickly promoted Peele to take over for Marshall.cite web
url = http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2837913|title = Winthrop replaces Marshall with asst. coach Peele|accessdate=2007-07-18|date = 2007-04-14|publisher = ESPN.com] The 2007–2008 season will be Peele's fifth season as a head coach.

Head coaching record

CBB Yearly Record Start
conference=*
postseason=*CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=UNC-Greensboro
startyear=1995
conference=Big South Conference
endyear=1997|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
season = 1995–1996
name = UNC-Greensboro
overall = 20-10
conference = 11-3
confstanding = 1st
postseason = NCAA 1st RoundCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1996–1997
name = UNC-Greensboro
overall = 10-20
conference = 6-8
confstanding = T-5th
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=UNC-Greensboro
startyear=1997
conference=Southern Conference
endyear=1999|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1997–1998
name = UNC-Greensboro
overall = 9-19
conference = 6-9
confstanding = T-4th (North)
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 1998–1999
name = UNC-Greensboro
overall = 7-20
conference = 5-11
confstanding = 5th (North)
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = UNC-Greensboro
overall = 46-69
confrecord = 28-31CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Winthrop
startyear=2007
conference=Big South Conference
endyear=|CBB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
season = 2007–2008
name = Winthrop
overall = 22-12
conference = 10-4
confstanding = T-1st
postseason = CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = Winthrop
overall = 0-0
confrecord = 10-4CBB Yearly Record End
overall=68-81

References

External links

* [http://www.winthropeagles.com/default.asp?section=2&type=biography&id=101 Bio at Winthrop's athletics site]