Richie Riley

Richie Riley

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	South Alabama
Conference	Sun Belt
Record	37–28 (.569)
Biographical details
Born	(1983-01-08) January 8, 1983 London, Kentucky
Playing career
2001–2002	Eastern Kentucky
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2003–2005	Georgetown (KY) (asst.)
2005–2006	Hawaii Pacific (asst.)
2006–2009	Pikeville (asst.)
2009–2011	Coastal Carolina (asst.)
2011–2012	Eastern Kentucky (asst.)
2012–2014	UAB (asst.)
2014–2016	Clemson (asst.)
2016–2018	Nicholls State
2018–present	South Alabama
Head coaching record
Overall	72–56 (.563)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Southland regular season co-champions (2018)
Awards
Southland Coach of the Year (2018)

Richie Riley is an American college basketball coach and current head coach at South Alabama.

Playing career

Riley played one season at Eastern Kentucky under Travis Ford. He graduated in 2005 from EKU.

Coaching career

While in college, Riley began his coaching career as an assistant coach at nearby Georgetown College. After graduation, Riley headed to Hawaii Pacific as an assistant for one season before a three-year stint at Pikeville from 2006 to 2009.

Riley joined Cliff Ellis's staff at Coastal Carolina for three seasons before a one-year stop as an assistant coach at his alma mater. He then had assistant stops at UAB and Clemson before accepting the head coaching position at Nicholls State becoming the 11th coach in program history, replacing J. P. Piper.

After two seasons with Nicholls State, Riley was named the 10th head coach in program history at South Alabama, replacing Matthew Graves.

Head coaching record

NCAA DI

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Nicholls State (Southland) (2016–2018)
2016–17	Nicholls State	14–17	7–11	T–8th
2017–18	Nicholls State	21–11	15–3	T–1st
Nicholls St.:		35–28 (.556)	22–14 (.611)
South Alabama (Sun Belt) (2018–present)
2018–19	South Alabama	17–17	8–10	8th
2019–20	South Alabama	20–11	13–7	T–2nd
2020–21	South Alabama	7–6	1–3
South Alabama:		37–28 (.569)	21–17 (.553)
Total:		72–56 (.563)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion