Hoop Heads - FSU Leonard Hamilton Playbook
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Leonard Hamilton - Florida State Playbook by Mitch Ford only $6.97 (Presented by Hoop Heads Podcast)
18th Season at Florida State (360-221, .620 winning percentage)
32nd Seasons as a collegiate head coach (560-431, .565 winning percentage)
The most successful coach in Florida State history, Leonard Hamilton is the Seminoles’ all-time winningest coach and is the fifth all-time winningest coach in ACC history.
He became the Seminoles’ winningest coach as Florida State defeated Pittsburgh on March 7, 2015 and became the fifth all-time winningest coach in ACC history as he guided the Seminoles past Syracuse on February 15, 2020. He is the fifth winningest all-time coach in ACC history with 360 wins and the fifth winningest coach in ACC history (ACC regular season and ACC Tournament games) with 170 ACC wins.
Hamilton is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 360 career victories. He has 125 more wins than Bud Kennedy, who coached the Seminoles from 1949-66; He is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 170 ACC victories. He has 79 more ACC victories than Pat Kennedy who coached the Seminoles from 1992-97; He is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 13 ACC Tournament victories. He has seven more ACC Tournament victories than Kennedy; He is Florida State’s all-time leader with seven NCAA Tournament appearances. He surpassed Pat Kennedy with the Seminoles’ appearance in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
Hamilton won his 300th game at Florida State and his 500th overall in Florida State’s 81-79 overtime win over No. 11 ranked Clemson on Feb. 14, 2018 — one of 54 wins over nationally ranked teams during his tenure in Tallahassee.
In 2020, he led Florida State to the first ACC Regular Season Championship in school history. The Seminoles finished ACC play with a 16-4 record — the 16 wins in ACC play established a school record for ACC wins in a season. He was named the ACC Coach of the Year in 2020 for the third time in his career.
In 2019, he guided the Seminoles to a school-record 29 victories. The Seminoles’ 2019 team also won a school-record 13 ACC games, defeated six nationally ranked teams, advanced to the ACC Tournament championship game and to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament during the 2018-19 season. Coupled with the Seminoles’ appearance in the Elite Eight of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the 2019 season marked the second time in school history the Seminoles had advanced to at least the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons.
In 2018, Florida State advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time under Hamilton and for only the third time in school history. The Seminoles finished with a 23-12 record, a 9-9 mark in ACC play, won the Jamaica Classic and played in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season and for the sixth time in the last 10 years. Florida State was one of two ACC teams which advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, defeated a near school-record six nationally ranked teams and three teams seeded higher than them in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
Under Hamilton and since the start of the 2005-06 season, the Seminoles are the fourth winningest overall program in the ACC with 311 wins and are one of only four teams that have won at least 60 percent of their games. Florida State is one of only four teams in the ACC that averages more than 22 wins per season and is one of only three teams that has won at least 20 games in a season 11 times in the last 14 years.
Under Hamilton, the Seminoles have won at least 20 games in 12 of his 18 years and have advanced to the postseason in 14 of his 17 seasons at Florida State.
Hamilton has earned three National Coach of the Year awards, three Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year awards, two Big East Coach of the Year awards, has led his teams to nine NCAA Tournament appearances and 20 postseason appearances, to the 2012 ACC Championship (as the head coach at Florida State) and to the 1978 National Championship (as an assistant coach at Kentucky). He is the only person to earn Coach of the Year honors multiple times in both the ACC and the Big East. He was named the Clarence “Big House” Gaines National Coach of the Year in 2018 by the National Sports Media Association.
Hamilton led the Seminoles to the first ACC basketball championship in school history in 2012, is among the leaders in the ACC and the nation in recruiting and coaching NBA talent, has made appearing in the NCAA Tournament an expected part of the Seminoles’ schedule each season and made the program one of the nation’s tougher teams to prepare for on a nightly basis.
In 2012, Hamilton led the Seminoles to a school-record fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, to a 12-4 record in ACC play, to a third consecutive third place finish in the ACC standings, to two wins each over Duke and North Carolina (two of the top four winningest programs in college basketball history), to wins over an ACC-leading six nationally ranked teams and to victories over each of the four Tobacco Road teams in the ACC (Duke, North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest) for the first time in school history. The Seminoles finished the 2019 season ranked No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll and No. 15 in the final ESPN/USA Today poll.
Hamilton was named the ACC Coach of the Year in 2012 for the second time in his career as the Seminoles solidified their position as one of the top teams in the ACC. With their 3-0 record in the 2012 ACC Tournament, the Seminoles won a single-season school-record 15 ACC games. With wins over No. 4 North Carolina and at No. 6 Duke to begin the ACC 2012 schedule, the Seminoles spent the majority of the conference season in first place in the ACC standings.
“Leonard Hamilton has done a brilliant job at Florida State,” said the Duke Basketball Report.
Hamilton was the Washington Wizards’ head coach in 2001, the head coach at Oklahoma State University (1987-90), and the head coach at the University of Miami (1991-2000) and before he was named the seventh head coach in Florida State men’s basketball history on March 19, 2002.
In a recent Athlon Sports ranking of the ACC’s top coaches, Hamilton was an easy choice among the top ACC coaches.
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Leonard Hamilton - Florida State Playbook by Mitch Ford only $6.97 (Presented by Hoop Heads Podcast)
18th Season at Florida State (360-221, .620 winning percentage)
32nd Seasons as a collegiate head coach (560-431, .565 winning percentage)
The most successful coach in Florida State history, Leonard Hamilton is the Seminoles’ all-time winningest coach and is the fifth all-time winningest coach in ACC history.
He became the Seminoles’ winningest coach as Florida State defeated Pittsburgh on March 7, 2015 and became the fifth all-time winningest coach in ACC history as he guided the Seminoles past Syracuse on February 15, 2020. He is the fifth winningest all-time coach in ACC history with 360 wins and the fifth winningest coach in ACC history (ACC regular season and ACC Tournament games) with 170 ACC wins.
Hamilton is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 360 career victories. He has 125 more wins than Bud Kennedy, who coached the Seminoles from 1949-66; He is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 170 ACC victories. He has 79 more ACC victories than Pat Kennedy who coached the Seminoles from 1992-97; He is Florida State’s all-time winningest coach with 13 ACC Tournament victories. He has seven more ACC Tournament victories than Kennedy; He is Florida State’s all-time leader with seven NCAA Tournament appearances. He surpassed Pat Kennedy with the Seminoles’ appearance in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
Hamilton won his 300th game at Florida State and his 500th overall in Florida State’s 81-79 overtime win over No. 11 ranked Clemson on Feb. 14, 2018 — one of 54 wins over nationally ranked teams during his tenure in Tallahassee.
In 2020, he led Florida State to the first ACC Regular Season Championship in school history. The Seminoles finished ACC play with a 16-4 record — the 16 wins in ACC play established a school record for ACC wins in a season. He was named the ACC Coach of the Year in 2020 for the third time in his career.
In 2019, he guided the Seminoles to a school-record 29 victories. The Seminoles’ 2019 team also won a school-record 13 ACC games, defeated six nationally ranked teams, advanced to the ACC Tournament championship game and to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament during the 2018-19 season. Coupled with the Seminoles’ appearance in the Elite Eight of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the 2019 season marked the second time in school history the Seminoles had advanced to at least the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons.
In 2018, Florida State advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time under Hamilton and for only the third time in school history. The Seminoles finished with a 23-12 record, a 9-9 mark in ACC play, won the Jamaica Classic and played in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season and for the sixth time in the last 10 years. Florida State was one of two ACC teams which advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, defeated a near school-record six nationally ranked teams and three teams seeded higher than them in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
Under Hamilton and since the start of the 2005-06 season, the Seminoles are the fourth winningest overall program in the ACC with 311 wins and are one of only four teams that have won at least 60 percent of their games. Florida State is one of only four teams in the ACC that averages more than 22 wins per season and is one of only three teams that has won at least 20 games in a season 11 times in the last 14 years.
Under Hamilton, the Seminoles have won at least 20 games in 12 of his 18 years and have advanced to the postseason in 14 of his 17 seasons at Florida State.
Hamilton has earned three National Coach of the Year awards, three Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year awards, two Big East Coach of the Year awards, has led his teams to nine NCAA Tournament appearances and 20 postseason appearances, to the 2012 ACC Championship (as the head coach at Florida State) and to the 1978 National Championship (as an assistant coach at Kentucky). He is the only person to earn Coach of the Year honors multiple times in both the ACC and the Big East. He was named the Clarence “Big House” Gaines National Coach of the Year in 2018 by the National Sports Media Association.
Hamilton led the Seminoles to the first ACC basketball championship in school history in 2012, is among the leaders in the ACC and the nation in recruiting and coaching NBA talent, has made appearing in the NCAA Tournament an expected part of the Seminoles’ schedule each season and made the program one of the nation’s tougher teams to prepare for on a nightly basis.
In 2012, Hamilton led the Seminoles to a school-record fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, to a 12-4 record in ACC play, to a third consecutive third place finish in the ACC standings, to two wins each over Duke and North Carolina (two of the top four winningest programs in college basketball history), to wins over an ACC-leading six nationally ranked teams and to victories over each of the four Tobacco Road teams in the ACC (Duke, North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest) for the first time in school history. The Seminoles finished the 2019 season ranked No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll and No. 15 in the final ESPN/USA Today poll.
Hamilton was named the ACC Coach of the Year in 2012 for the second time in his career as the Seminoles solidified their position as one of the top teams in the ACC. With their 3-0 record in the 2012 ACC Tournament, the Seminoles won a single-season school-record 15 ACC games. With wins over No. 4 North Carolina and at No. 6 Duke to begin the ACC 2012 schedule, the Seminoles spent the majority of the conference season in first place in the ACC standings.
“Leonard Hamilton has done a brilliant job at Florida State,” said the Duke Basketball Report.
Hamilton was the Washington Wizards’ head coach in 2001, the head coach at Oklahoma State University (1987-90), and the head coach at the University of Miami (1991-2000) and before he was named the seventh head coach in Florida State men’s basketball history on March 19, 2002.
In a recent Athlon Sports ranking of the ACC’s top coaches, Hamilton was an easy choice among the top ACC coaches.
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