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: | 8× Gulf South regular season 3× 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]
Acuff attended Shorter College where he set the single game, single season and career record for assists, which still stand to this day.[2]
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]