| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1949 (age 75–76) |
| Playing career | |
| 1967–1971 | Penn |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1971–1972 | Oregon (GA) |
| 1972–1978 | Oregon (asst.) |
| 1978–1983 | Oregon |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1983–1985 | Metro Conference (asst. commissioner) |
| 1985–1988 | MVC (commissioner) |
| 1988–1992 | PCAA/Big West (commissioner) |
| 1992–present | NABC (executive director) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 53–82 (.393) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award (2007) | |
Jim Haney (born c. 1949) was the head basketball coach at theUniversity of Oregon inEugene for five seasons, from 1978 to 1983.
Haney starred in basketball in Pennsylvania atMt. Lebanon High School southwest ofPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1967.[1]
After consideringCornell andRutgers,[1] he playedcollege basketball under head coachDick Harter in theIvy League at theUniversity of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia, where he majored inchemical engineering.[2] He sat out his freshman season after two surgeries for a dislocatedkneecap, then played three seasons for theQuakers. He was voted the team's "most inspirational" player as a senior, as Penn won its first 28 games before falling in theElite Eight to Philly neighborVillanova.[1][3] Haney earned a B.S.Ch.E. degree from Penn in 1971.
When Harter was hired at Oregon 1971, Haney chose coaching over engineering and became a graduate assistant on the Ducks' staff, and was elevated to assistant coach the next year. Harter was known for his "Kamikaze Kids" defense, and led the Ducks for seven seasons. When he left forPenn State inState College in 1978, Haney was promoted in March at age 29.[4][5] His first contract as head coach was for three years at $29,000 per year.[6][7]
Haney's best year in the Pac-10 was his first in 1979, when the Ducks were 7–11 and finished in a tie for sixth. Near the end of his fifth season, he resigned in March 1983 because of his uninspiring record,[2][8][9][10] which was 53–82 (.388), and 27–63 (.300) in the Pac-10 conference.[11][12][13] He had one year remaining on his contract, at just under $36,700 annually.[2]
Haney was succeeded in Eugene byDon Monson, who had posted a 100–41 (.709) record in five years atIdaho inMoscow, with significant success against the northwest Pac-10 schools (3–0 against Haney's Ducks). The prior season in1982, Monson's nationally-rankedVandals were 27–3, third-seeded in the west regional, and advanced to theSweet Sixteen.
Haney accepted an assistant's position at theUniversity of Kansas under head coach Larry Brown,[14] but before the season began he went to theMetro Conference as its assistant commissioner. He became commissioner in 1985 for theMissouri Valley Conference for three years and thePCAA for four years,[15] which was renamed theBig West in 1992.[16][17] He was the executive director of theNational Association of Basketball Coaches from 1992 to July 2020.
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Ducks(Pacific-10 Conference)(1978–1983) | |||||||||
| 1978–79 | Oregon | 12–15 | 7–11 | T–6th | |||||
| 1979–80 | Oregon | 10–17 | 5–13 | T–7th | |||||
| 1980–81 | Oregon | 13–14 | 6–12 | 7th | |||||
| 1981–82 | Oregon | 9–18 | 4–14 | T–8th | |||||
| 1982–83 | Oregon | 9–18 | 5–13 | 9th | |||||
| Oregon: | 53–82 | 27–63 | |||||||
| Total: | 53–82 | ||||||||