Dennis Nutt

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Dennis Nutt
Ouachita Baptist Tigers
Position Head coach
League Great American Conference
Personal information
Born (1963-03-25) March 25, 1963 (age 60)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school Little Rock Central
(Little Rock, Arkansas)
College TCU (1981–1985)
NBA draft 1985: undrafted
Playing career1985–1991
Position Point guard
Number21
Career history
As player:
1985–1987 La Crosse Catbirds
1987 Dallas Mavericks
1987–1988La Crosse Catbirds
1988–1989 Sioux Falls Skyforce
1989–1990 Real Madrid
1990–1991Sioux Falls Skyforce
As coach:
2000–2006 Texas State
2011–present Ouachita Baptist
Career highlights and awards
  • First-team All-SWC (1985)
Stats   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Dennis Clay Nutt (born March 25, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the head basketball coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

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Nutt was a 6'2" (188 cm) and 170 lb (77 kg) guard and played collegiately at Texas Christian University from 198185. He is now the head basketball coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He has worked as a scout for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. [1] [2] Previously, Nutt was an assistant coach for Coastal Carolina University men's basketball team, [3] and was the head coach at Texas State University for six

Nutt played in the CBA with the La Crosse Catbirds and the Sioux Falls Skyforce. [3] He played 25 games with the NBA's Dallas Mavericks in the 1986–87 National Basketball Association season then signed with Milwaukee Bucks in 1989 and the Sacramento Kings in 1990. [4] Following his NBA career, he played for Real Madrid in Spain for one year [5] for the season 1989–90. [6]

Dennis Nutt is the brother of Dickey Nutt, former head men's basketball coach at Southeast Missouri State University and Arkansas State University. Dennis Nutt served as an assistant at Arkansas State under Dickey Nutt for five years until April 2000. [5] They are also the brothers of Houston Nutt, who is the former head football coach of the University of Mississippi [7] and the University of Arkansas, and Danny Nutt, a former running backs coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team. [8]

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References

  1. Basketball transactions, published September 21, 2007[ dead link ]
  2. Charlotte Bobcats Staff Directory Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 Dennis Nutt Named Coastal Men's Basketball Assistant Coach Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Dennis Nutt Player Profile, Sacramento Kings, NBA Stats, NCAA Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM".
  5. 1 2 Coach profile: Dennis Nutt Archived 2006-02-13 at the Wayback Machine @ txstatebobcats.cstv.com
  6. "Historial estadístico". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
  7. It's brother against brother in Ivy League
  8. Health issues force Danny Nutt to resign as Arkansas RBs coach