Lennie Acuff Explained

Lennie Acuff
Current Title:Head coach
Current Team:Lipscomb
Current Conference:Atlantic Sun
Birth Date:24 January 1965
Birth Place:Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Player Years1:1985–1988
Player Team1:Shorter
Coach Years1:1990–1992
Coach Team1:Belhaven
Coach Years2:1993–1997
Coach Team2:Berry
Coach Years3:1997–2019
Coach Team3:Alabama–Huntsville
Coach Years4:2019–present
Coach Team4:Lipscomb
Overall Record:96-99 (NAIA)
Championships:Gulf South regular season
Gulf South tournament (2012, 2015, 2017)
Awards:8× Gulf South Coach of the Year (1999, 2003, 2005, 2010–2012, 2015, 2016)

Lennie Acuff (born January 24, 1965) is an American basketball coach, currently head coach of the Lipscomb Bisons men's basketball team.[1]

Playing career

Acuff attended Shorter College where he set the single game, single season and career record for assists, which still stand to this day.[2]

Coaching career

At 25, Acuff landed his first head coaching job with Belhaven College where he posted a 31–35 record over two seasons.[3] He then moved on to Berry College where he'd compile a 65–64 overall record with back-to-back 20-win seasons in his final two seasons.[4] Acuff would accept the head coaching position at Alabama–Huntsville, the town he grew up in. Over the course of 22 seasons at the helm of the Chargers, he would guide the team to eight Gulf South Conference regular season crowns, three conference tournament titles and 11 NCAA Division II tournament appearances, including the Elite Eight in 2011 and 2012.[2] [1]

On April 24, 2019 Acuff was named the 19th head men's basketball coach at Lipscomb, replacing Casey Alexander who departed for the same position at Belmont.[1] [5]

Head coaching record

NCAA DI

Notes and References

  1. Web site: April 24, 2019 . Kirk Downs . Lennie Acuff Tabbed to Lead Lipscomb Men's Basketball . LipscombSports.com . April 25, 2019 . April 24, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190424132053/http://www.lipscombsports.com/mbasketball/news/2018-19/16014/lennie-acuff-tabbed-to-lead-lipscomb-mens-basketball/ . dead .
  2. Web site: Lennie Acuff - Men's Basketball Coach. UAH Athletics.
  3. Web site: Men's Basketball Coaching Records. blazers.belhaven.edu.
  4. Web site: Record Book . 17 May 2023.
  5. Web site: Lipscomb basketball hires 500-game winner Lennie Acuff from Alabama-Huntsville. The Tennessean.