Introduction
Joseph Gerard Dooley III (born January 29, 1966) is the head men's basketball coach at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dooley was an assistant on the Kansas Jayhawks 2007–08 NCAA national championship team.
He previously served as head coach at East Carolina University.
In June 2009, Andy Katz of ESPN reported that Dooley was one of the finalist for the head basketball coaching position at Holy Cross.
Dooley is a 1988 graduate of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he completed his bachelor's degree in speech communications. A four-year letter winner in basketball at George Washington, he started his last two seasons and was elected a team captain as a senior. A native of West Orange, New Jersey, Dooley was a prep player at St. Benedicts High School in New Jersey where he scored 1,140 career points. He has a son named Max.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Carolina (Colonial Athletic Association) (1995–1999) | |||||||||
| 1995–96 | East Carolina | 17–11 | 9–9 | T–4th | |||||
| 1996–97 | East Carolina | 17–10 | 9–7 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1997–98 | East Carolina | 10–17 | 5–11 | T–7th | |||||
| 1998–99 | East Carolina | 13–14 | 7–9 | 7th | |||||
| East Carolina: | 57–52 (.523) | 30–36 (.455) | |||||||
| Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2013–present) | |||||||||
| 2013–14 | Florida Gulf Coast | 22–13 | 14–4 | T–1st | NIT 1st Round | ||||
| 2014–15 | Florida Gulf Coast | 22–11 | 11–3 | 2nd | CIT 1st Round | ||||
| 2015–16 | Florida Gulf Coast | 21–14 | 8–6 | T–2nd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2016–17 | Florida Gulf Coast | 16–6 | 5–1 | ||||||
| Florida Gulf Coast: | 81–44 (.648) | 38–14 (.731) | |||||||
| Total: | 138–96 (.590) | ||||||||
| National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||