Mike Jarvis

Mike Jarvis
Sport(s)	Basketball
Biographical details
Born	April 12, 1945 (1945-04-12)
Place of birth	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Playing career
1964–1968	Northeastern
Position(s)	G
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1990 1990–1998 1998–2003 2008–present	Boston University George Washington St. John's Florida Atlantic University
Head coaching record
Overall	364–201
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
America East Tournament Championship (1988, 1990) A10 Regular Season West Division Championship (1996) Big East Regular Season Championship (2000) NIT Championship (2003, later vacated)
Awards
America East Coach of the Year (1990)

Mike Jarvis is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Florida Atlantic University. He has coached at Boston University, George Washington University and St. John's University. He also has worked as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN. His career college coaching record in over 18 seasons is 364–201 and is one of four Division I coaches to have won 100 games at three different colleges.

Jarvis was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and played high school basketball at Rindge Technical High School, the predecessor to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He also coached at Rindge and Latin, where his players included NBA players Patrick Ewing, Rumeal Robinson and former George Washington head coach Karl Hobbs. He played basketball and baseball at Northeastern University, graduating in 1968.

Jarvis became head coach at Boston University in 1985, becoming the Terriers' all-time winningest coach in five seasons with a 101-50 record (he was later overtaken by Bob Brown, then Dennis Wolff). Boston University reached the NCAA Tournament in 1988 and 1990 under Jarvis.

He was hired at George Washington in 1990, leading the Colonials to three NCAA tournament appearances, including the round of 16 in the 1993 NCAA Tournament, the Colonials' best tournament performance. He coached the United States under-22 men's team in 1993. Jarvis also led the Colonials to two victories over number one ranked UMass, compiling a 143–100 record at George Washington.

After the 1998 season, Jarvis accepted the head coaching job at St. John's University after Fran Fraschilla was fired, leading the Red Storm to the Elite Eight in the 1999 NCAA Tournament and the 2000 Big East tournament championship. They won the National Invitation Tournament in 2003.

The next season the Red Storm stumbled out of the gate, losing to several nonconference teams that they usually beat with ease. Jarvis was fired on December 19, 2003—the first Big East coach to be fired during the season. Assistant Kevin Clark replaced him for the remainder of the season. His final record at St. John's was 110–61.

It later emerged that school officials had fired Jarvis in part due to a series of embarrassing off-court incidents. Among these, a junior college transfer had been charged with assaulting a female student, and a senior guard had been kicked off the team after being caught smoking marijuana near St. John's campus in Queens.

During the 2003–04 season, St. John's center Abe Keita claimed that a member of Jarvis's basketball staff had paid him nearly $300 a month for the past four seasons. As a result, St. John's placed itself on two years' probation, withdrew from postseason consideration for the 2004–05 season, and forfeited 43 wins in which Keita participated—including the 2002 NCAA Tournament and the 2003 NIT. The NCAA accepted St. John's sanctions. Jarvis was faulted for not properly monitoring Keita's situation, but was otherwise cleared of wrongdoing. After his ouster, Jarvis was criticized for ignoring New York City's rich pool of high school players, which particularly rankled fans used to seeing national powerhouses built primarily on New York City talent.

Prior to coming back with the Owls in 2009, Jarvis worked for ESPN as a college basketball commentator, and Yahoo! Sports as their NCAA men's basketball analyst, and continues to work as a speaker. He currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Boston University Terriers (America East/ECAC NAC) (1985–1990)
1985–1986	Boston U	21–10	13–5	1st	NIT 1st Round
1986–1987	Boston U	18–12	12–6	T–3rd
1987–1988	Boston U	23–8	14–4	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
1988–1989	Boston U	21–9	14–4	3nd
1989–1990	Boston U	18–12	9–3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
Boston U:		101–51	62–22
George Washington Colonials (Atlantic 10) (1990–1998)
1990–1991	George Washington	19–12	10–8	T–3rd	NIT 1st Round
1991–1992	George Washington	16–12	8–8	5th
1992–1993	George Washington	21–9	8–6	T–2nd	NCAA Sweet 16
1993–1994	George Washington	18–12	8–8	T–3rd	NCAA 2nd Round
1994–1995	George Washington	18–14	10–6	T–2nd	NIT 1st Round
1995–1996	George Washington	21–8	13–3	T–1st–West	NCAA 1st Round
1996–1997	George Washington	15–14	8–8	2nd–West	NIT 1st Round
1997–1998	George Washington	24–9	11–5	T–1st–West	NCAA 1st Round
George Washington:		152–90	76–52
St. John's Red Storm (Big East) (1998–2003)
1998–1999	St. John's	28–9	14–4	3rd	NCAA Elite 8
1999–2000	St. John's	25–8	12–4	3rd	NCAA 2nd Round
2000–2001	St. John's	14–15**	8–8**	T–3rd–East
2001–2002	St. John's	20–12**	9–7**	3rd–East	NCAA 1st Round**
2002–2003	St. John's	21–13**	7–9**	5th–East	NIT Championship**
2003–2004	St. John's	2–4*
St. John's:		110–61%	50–32%
Florida Atlantic Owls (Sun Belt) (2008–present)
2008–2009	Florida Atlantic	6–26	2–16	6th–Eastern
2009–2010	Florida Atlantic	14–16	10–8	4th–Eastern
2010–2011	Florida Atlantic	21-11	13–3	1st	NIT 1st Round
Florida Atlantic:		41–53	25–27
Total:		386–256
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season & conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

*Jarvis was fired on December 19, 2003; assistant Kevin Clark finished the season.
** St. John's vacated 47 games (46 wins and one loss) from 2000 to 2004 after Abe Keita was ruled ineligible. Official records are 5-15 for 2000-01, 7-11 for 2001-02, 1-13 for 2002-03 and 0-4 for 2003-04.
% Official record at St. John's is 66-60 (53-32 Big East) not counting vacated games.

External links

• http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/story/6938411
• http://espn.go.com/ncb/s/2000/1021/830880.html
• http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives/almanac/athletics/menbaskbal.html
• http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/feb02/htmls/cover_jarvis.html
• http://www.corporateartists.com/speaker_mike_jarvis.html
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