Will Brown (basketball coach)

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Will Brown
Title	Head coach
College	Albany
Sport	Basketball
Team record	0-0 (.000)
Born	October 8, 1971 (1971-10-08) (age 36)
Place of birth	Miller Place, New York
Career highlights
Overall	181-118 (.605)
Championships
America East Tournament Championship (2006, 2007) America East Regular Season Championship (2006)
Playing career
1991–1995	Dowling
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1995–1998 1998–2001 2001 2001–present	Saint Rose (asst.) Sullivan County CC Albany (asst.) Albany

Will Brown (born October 10, 1971 in Miller Place, New York) is the head coach of the Albany Great Danes basketball team. In his time as head coach, Brown has led Albany to their first two NCAA tournament berths.

Brown joined the Albany staff as an assistant for the 2001-2002 season, and was named interim head coach on December 20th of 2001. On March 13, 2002, Brown was officially hired to take the full-time job.

Prior to arriving at Albany, Brown spent three years at the head men's coach at Sullivan County Community College, compiling a record of 90-10 in those three seasons. Brown began his coaching career as an assistant for three seasons at The College of Saint Rose.

Brown played collegiate basketball at Dowling College, starting for three years. He finished his career as the school's all-time leader in assists, three-point field goals and free-throw percentage, and is the only player in Dowling history to score 1,000 points and tally 500 assists.

[edit] Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Sullivan County Community College (1998 — 2000)
1998–1999	Sullivan County CC	30-2			NJCAA Final Four Appearance
1999–2000	Sullivan County CC	28-5
2000–2001	Sullivan County CC	32-3			NJCAA Championship Runner-Up
Sullivan County CC:		90-10
Albany (America East Conference) (2001 — present)
2001–2002	Albany	7-13	5-11	T-9th
2002–2003	Albany	7-21	3-13	T-9th
2003–2004	Albany	5-23	3-13	10th
2004–2005	Albany	13-15	9-9	4th
2005–2006	Albany	21-11	13-3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2006–2007	Albany	23-9	13-3	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
2007–2008	Albany	15-15	10-6	3rd
2008–2009	Albany	0-0	0-0	-
Albany:		91-108	56-58
Total:		181-118
National Champion         Conference Champion         Conference Tournament Champion

[edit] References

• Bio on Albany's athletics site

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