Bobby Cremins

**Bobby Cremins**
Bobby Cremins
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Title	Head coach
College	College of Charleston
Sport	Basketball
Team record	38–28 (.576)
Born	July 4, 1947 (age 62)
Place of birth	The Bronx, New York
	Career highlights
Overall	495–338 (.594)
Championships
	ACC Tournament Championship (1985, 1990, 1993); ACC Regular Season Championship (1985, 1996); Southern Conference Tournament Championship (1979); Southern Conference Regular Season Championship (1978, 1979, 1981)
Awards
	Naismith College Coach of the Year (1990); ACC Coach of the Year (1983, 1985, 1996); Southern Conference Coach of the Year (1976, 1978, 1981)
Playing career
1967–1970	South Carolina
Position	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–1973; 1973–1975; 1975–1981; 1981–2000; 2006–present	Point Park; South Carolina (Asst.); Appalachian State; Georgia Tech; College of Charleston

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Bobby Cremins (born July 4, 1947) is the head coach of the College of Charleston's men's basketball team, and former head coach at Appalachian State and Georgia Tech.

[edit] Early years

Born in Paris, France, he attended All Hallows High School. In 1966, he moved on to the University of South Carolina, where he played under legendary coach Frank McGuire, and compiled 61 wins with only 17 losses as the starting point guard for the Gamecocks. Cremins, known affectionately as "Cakes", was the captain of South Carolina's powerful 1969-70 team which went 25-3. He graduated from South Carolina in 1970 with a B.S. degree in Marketing, before playing professionally for one year in Ecuador.

[edit] Early coaching career

He started his coaching career at in 1971 as the head coach of Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then returned to South Carolina to become McGuire's assistant coach and earn a M.S. degree in Guidance and Counseling in 1972.

At age 27, Cremins became the youngest NCAA Division I head coach in history when he took the helm of Appalachian State. His first year at Appalachian his team went 13–14, but then put together an 87–56 record over the next five seasons, and three Southern Conference titles. The Mountaineers posted a 23–6 record and an NCAA tournament bid in 1979, and two years later went 20–9. His performance at ASU garnered him national attention among NCAA coaching ranks, including catching the eye of the Georgia Tech athletic director. He became the Rambling Wreck's new head coach at the close of the 1981 season, on April 14, 1981.

[edit] Coaching career at Georgia Tech

Cremins took what had been a winless Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) team (4 wins and 23 losses the season before his arrival) to the ACC tournament championship in 1985, when he amassed 27 wins and only 8 losses. In 1990, his team went to the Final Four, with a 28–7 record. Cremins is three-time ACC "Coach of the Year" winner: 1983 with the first ever Yellow Jacket ACC tournament victory, and a 13–15 record; 1985, and 1996 with a 24–12 record, an ACC regular-season title (13–3), and a NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance. His coaching of the 1990 team earned him a Naismith College Coach of the Year honor.

He retired with a 25-year overall head coaching career record of 452–303 (.599%), and a Georgia Tech record, in 19-seasons, of 352–233 (.602%).

Cremins had a host of players that went on to have successful National Basketball Association (NBA) careers. First there was Mark Price (Cleveland Cavaliers) and John Salley (Detroit Pistons) in the early 1980s, then Duane Ferrell, Tom Hammonds, Dennis Scott, Brian Oliver, Kenny Anderson, Jon Barry, Travis Best, Stephon Marbury, Jason Collier and Matt Harpring.

He was also an assistant coach on the first-ever gold medal U.S. World University Games winner in 1986, under Lute Olson (University of Arizona). He also assisted Olson at the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal.^[1] In the summer of 1989 he coached the 1990 World Championships qualifying U.S. squad.

Noted for his white-hair, Cremins also assisted NBA coach Lenny Wilkens on team USA's Olympic Games appearance held in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.

On March 24, 1993, Cremins agreed to coach his alma mater, the South Carolina Gamecocks, before doing an about-face three days later and returning to Georgia Tech.

In 2003, Georgia Tech officially named the basketball court at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum "Cremins Court".

Turning down numerous offers to coach during his retirement, and even an occasional athletic directors job, Cremins toured the country doing motivational speaking, did television commentary on ACC and NCAA basketball, and worked with charities, mainly for Coaches vs. Cancer and the Jimmy V Foundation. Bobby also raised money for a five-to-six week summer program, half of which include disadvantaged kids, the Hilton Head Basketball Camp 101.

In 2006, Cremins returned to coaching at the College of Charleston, hoping to reinstate the program to its status as a powerhouse in college basketball that it enjoyed under coach John Kresse (1980-2002).

[edit] Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Appalachian State Mountaineers (Southern Conference) (1975–1981)
1975–1976	Appalachian State	13–14	6–6	5th
1976–1977	Appalachian State	17–12	8–4	3rd
1977–1978	Appalachian State	15–13	9–3	1st
1978–1979	Appalachian State	23–6	11–3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1979–1980	Appalachian State	12–16	6–10	T–6th
1980–1981	Appalachian State	20–9	11–5	T–1st
Appalachian State:		100–70	51–31
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) (1981–2000)
1981–1982	Georgia Tech	10–16	3–11	8th
1982–1983	Georgia Tech	13–15	4–10	6th
1983–1984	Georgia Tech	18–11	6–8	T–5th	NIT 1st Round
1984–1985	Georgia Tech	27–8	9–5	T–1st	NCAA Elite Eight
1985–1986	Georgia Tech	27–7	11–3	2nd	NCAA Sweet 16
1986–1987	Georgia Tech	16–13	7–7	5th	NCAA 1st Round
1987–1988	Georgia Tech	22–10	8–6	4th	NCAA 2nd Round
1988–1989	Georgia Tech	20–12	8–6	5th	NCAA 1st Round
1989–1990	Georgia Tech	28–7	8–6	T–3rd	NCAA Final Four
1990–1991	Georgia Tech	17–13	6–8	T–5th	NCAA 2nd Round
1991–1992	Georgia Tech	23–12	8–8	T–4th	NCAA Sweet 16
1992–1993	Georgia Tech	19–11	8–8	6th	NCAA 1st Round
1993–1994	Georgia Tech	16–13	7–9	6th	NIT 1st Round
1994–1995	Georgia Tech	18–12	8–8	5th
1995–1996	Georgia Tech	24–12	13–3	1st	NCAA Sweet 16
1996–1997	Georgia Tech	9–18	3–13	9th
1997–1998	Georgia Tech	19–14	6–10	6th	NIT Quarterfinals
1998–1999	Georgia Tech	15–16	6–10	T–5th	NIT 1st Round
1999–2000	Georgia Tech	13–17	5–11	8th
Georgia Tech:		354–237	134–150
College of Charleston Cougars (Southern Conference) (2006–present)
2006–2007	College of Charleston	22–11	13–5	2nd (South)
2007–2008	College of Charleston	16–17	9–11	3rd (South)
2008–2009	College of Charleston	27-9	15-5	3rd (South)	CBI 2nd Round
2009–2010	College of Charleston	8-6	3-0	(South)
College of Charleston:		73-43	40-21
Total:		527–350
National Champion Conference Regular Season Champion Conference Tournament Champion Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion Conference Division Champion

[edit] Personal

With his wife Carolyn, the couple has three children, Liz, Suzie, and Bobby III. He lives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

[edit] References

^ 1986 USA Basketball

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[0] 1986 USA Basketball

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