Dennis Felton
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| Dennis Felton | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Georgia | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Born | June 21, 1963 | |
| Place of birth |  Tokyo, Japan |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Championships | ||
| SEC Tournament Championship (2008)
Sun Belt Tournament Championship (2001, 2002, 2003) |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1981-1983 1983-1985 |
Prince George's CC Howard |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1985-1986 1986-1990 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1994 1994-1998 1998-2003 2003-present |
Charles County CC (asst.) Delaware (asst.) Tulane (asst.) Saint Joseph's (asst.) Providence (asst.) Clemson (asst.) Western Kentucky Georgia |
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Dennis Felton (June 21, 1963 – ) is an American basketball coach. He is currently serving as the 20th head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia.
Felton was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent his early years living in and visiting a variety of locales around the world, due to his father's career in the United States Air Force. His family eventually moved to Clinton, Maryland, a suburban town in the Washington, D.C., area, a short distance from Andrews Air Force Base. Felton graduated from Surrattsville High School in 1981 and went on to Prince George's Community College. He completed his athletic and academic careers at Howard University in 1985, where he was a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference All-Academic selection.
Felton got his start in the coaching profession as an assistant at Oxon Hill High School in 1984. He then became an assistant coach at Charles County Community College, for one season (1985-86) before moving on to University of Delaware as an assistant coach for four seasons (1986-90). Felton continued his collegiate career with one season each at Tulane University and St. Joseph's University. In 1992 he took an assistant's post at Providence College under Rick Barnes. That season began a 6-year apprenticeship with Barnes that included two with the Friars and four at Clemson University (1994-98). The six teams that Barnes and Felton coached together all posted winning seasons (including three 20-win campaigns), all played in the postseason (four NCAA berths, two in the NIT) and went 114-71, averaging 19 wins per year.
In the spring of 1998, just before Barnes left Clemson for Texas, Felton ascended to the lead chair at Western Kentucky University. His first two Hilltopper squads went a combined 24-34. The 1999 team advanced to the Sun Belt Tournament title game. His Hilltopper teams won the Sun Belt Conference tournament titles in 2001, 2002, and 2003. In April of 2003, Felton was offered the head coaching position at Georgia. Felton also took assistant Coach Ken McDonald and Associate Head Coach Pete Herrmann with him to Athens.
In his first four seasons at Georgia, Felton has compiled a 58-63 record with two NIT appearances while attempting to lead Georgia back from the severe disadvantages that previous coach Jim Harrick dealt the program. Despite having only 9 scholarship players in 2008, Felton's Bulldogs completed an unprecedented run in SEC Tournament Championship history. Entering the 2008 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament as the lowest seed, Georgia won 4 games in 4 days, including 2 in the same day, to capture the conference tournament crown and the corresponding automatic birth in the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Felton is married to the former Melanie Smith, who is also a Howard alumna. The couple reside in Bogart, Georgia with their two sons, Jazz and Nile.
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