Biographical details | |
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Born | May 17, 1973 |
Playing career | |
? | North Iowa Area CC Grand View College |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1997–1998 | North Iowa Area CC (assistant) |
1998–1999 | Independence CC (assistant) |
1999–2000 | South Dakota State (assistant) |
2000–2005 | Coffeyville CC (assistant) |
2005–2006 | Indian Hills CC (assistant) |
2006–2010 | Northern Colorado (assistant) |
2010–2016 | Northern Colorado |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 86–98 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Big Sky tournament (2011) Big Sky regular season (2011) | |
Awards | |
Big Sky Coach of the Year (2011) | |
Benjamin Joseph Hill (born May 17, 1973) is an American college basketball coach and former head men's basketball coach at the University of Northern Colorado.
He began coaching the Bears in 2010–11, when he guided them to the school's first-ever NCAA Division I tournament berth, where they would lose in the Round of 64. He won the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year that season.
Hill and his entire staff were fired after the 2015–16 season upon the discovery of numerous NCAA rules violations. He was found to have personally completed coursework for a prospect and enlisted a trainer to do the same. In addition, nine members of his staff completed coursework for players, paid for prospects' classes, and arranged for off-campus practices with an academically ineligible player. In December 2017, Hill received a six-year show-cause penalty, effectively banning him from coaching at an NCAA member school during that time. [1]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Northern Colorado Bears (Big Sky Conference)(2010–2016) | |||||||||
2010–11 | Northern Colorado | 21–11 | 13–3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2011–12 | Northern Colorado | 9–19 | 5–11 | 7th | |||||
2012–13 | Northern Colorado | 13–18 | 10–10 | 4th | |||||
2013–14 | Northern Colorado | 18–14 | 11–9 | 5th | CIT First round | ||||
2014–15 | Northern Colorado | 15–15 | 10–8 | 5th | |||||
2015–16 | Northern Colorado | 10–21 | 7–11 | 9th | |||||
Northern Colorado: | 86–98 | 56–52 | |||||||
Total: | 86–98 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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