Yolett McPhee-McCuin

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Yolett McPhee-McCuin
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Current position
Title Head coach
Team Ole Miss
Conference SEC
Record106–85 (.555)
Annual salary$1.035 million
Biographical details
Born (1982-04-30) April 30, 1982 (age 42)
Freeport, Bahamas
Alma mater University of Rhode Island (BBM)
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (MPEd)
Playing career
2000–2002 Miami Dade CC
2002–2004 Rhode Island
Position(s) Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2005 Frank Phillips (assistant)
2005–2007 Arkansas–Pine Bluff (assistant)
2007–2008 Portland (assistant)
2008–2010 Pittsburgh (assistant)
2010–2013 Clemson (assistant)
2013–2018 Jacksonville
2014–2017 The Bahamas
2018–present Ole Miss
2024–presentThe Bahamas
Head coaching record
Overall197–147 (.573)
Tournaments3–4 NCAA Division I (.400)
4–3 WNIT (.571)

Yolett Alessia McPhee-McCuin (born April 30, 1982) is a Bahamian-American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball team. [1] Her team at Jacksonville University won the 2016 ASUN Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

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Early life and education

Yolett Alessia McPhee was born April 30, 1982, in Freeport, Bahamas. [2] Her parents both worked at Grand Bahama Catholic High School in Freeport: Her father Gladstone "Moon" McPhee was head boys' basketball coach, and her mother Daisy McPhee was school principal. [3]

McPhee-McCuin graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic in 2000. [4] Although she initially signed with Florida Atlantic University out of high school, she instead attended Miami-Dade Community College from 2000 to 2002, playing at point guard on the women's basketball team. [4] [2] [5] In the 2001–02 season, McPhee-McCuin earned all-state honors and averaged 9.0 points and 6.9 assists, ranking third nationally in assists per game. [2] She graduated from Miami-Dade with a 4.0 GPA in 2002. [2]

From 2002 to 2004, McPhee-McCuin attended the University of Rhode Island and played at point guard for the Rhode Island Rams. [2] She averaged 3.2 points, 1.1 rebounds, and 1.8 assists. [2] In her senior season of 2003–04, McPhee played in 29 games with 15 starts, averaging 2.7 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 2.0 assists. [6] She graduated from Rhode Island in 2004 with a B.A. in business management and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 2007 with a master's degree in secondary school physical education. [7]

Coaching career

Early coaching career (2004–2013)

McPhee-McCuin began her basketball coaching career as an assistant at Frank Phillips College, a junior college in Borger, Texas, in the 2004–05 season. Her first NCAA Division I coaching job was at Arkansas–Pine Bluff, as an assistant coach from 2005 to 2007. [8]

After one year as assistant coach at the University of Portland in 2007–08, McPhee-McCuin was an assistant coach at Pittsburgh from 2008 to 2010 under Agnus Berenato. [8] The 2008–09 Pittsburgh Panthers finished the season 25–8 and appeared in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament. [9]

From 2010 to 2013, McPhee-McCuin was an assistant coach at Clemson under Itoro Umoh-Coleman.

Jacksonville (2013–2018)

McPhee-McCuin's first head coaching job was at Jacksonville University from 2013 to 2018. [8] Inheriting a team with four straight losing seasons, McPhee-McCuin delivered a winning season by her third year in 2015–16, with a 22–11 record and NCAA Tournament appearance. [10] [8] The next two seasons, Jacksonville appeared in the 2017 and 2018 WNIT. [8] In five seasons, McPhee-McCuin had a cumulative 94–63 record at Jacksonville. [11]

Ole Miss (2018–present)

After firing Matt Insell in March 2018, the University of Mississippi hired McPhee-McCuin as head Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball coach on April 4, 2018. [12] [13] This hire followed a 12–19 season in 2017–18, including only one win in Southeastern Conference games. [14]

Ole Miss had just 16 wins in McPhee-McCuin's first two seasons. [11] But after a much improved 2020–21 season that had Ole Miss with a no. 42 NCAA Evaluation Tool ranking, Ole Miss extended McPhee-McCuin through the 2024–25 season on March 10, 2021. [15] Ole Miss finished the season 15–12 and runners-up in the 2021 Women's National Invitation Tournament. [16]

In 2021–22, Ole Miss improved even further with a 23–9 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance, the first such appearance since 2007. Additionally, Shakira Austin was drafted 3rd overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2022 WNBA Draft. [8]

Then in 2022–23, Ole Miss made a second straight NCAA Tournament. On March 19, 2023, in the second round, Ole Miss as a no. 8 seed upset no. 1 Stanford 54–49, improving to 25–8 and advancing to the Sweet 16 round for the first time since 2007. [17] [18] In 2023–24, Ole Miss won 12 SEC games for the first time in program history and earned a 3rd seed in the SEC Tournament. They received an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament, losing 71–56 to Notre Dame in the Second Round. In the 2024 WNBA Draft, Marquesha Davis was drafted 11th overall by the New York Liberty.

Personal life

McPhee-McCuin is married to Kelly McCuin. They have two children. [8]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Jacksonville Dolphins (Atlantic Sun Conference)(2013–2018)
2013–14 Jacksonville 13–1710–85th
2014–15 Jacksonville 12–176–8T–4th
2015–16 Jacksonville 22–1111–32nd NCAA First Round
2016–17 Jacksonville 23–911–33rd WNIT First Round
2017–18 Jacksonville 24–912–22nd WNIT First Round
Jacksonville:94–63 (.599)50–24 (.676)
Ole Miss Rebels (Southeastern Conference)(2018–present)
2018–19 Ole Miss 9–223–13T–12th
2019–20 Ole Miss 7–230–1614th
2020–21 Ole Miss 15–124–1011th WNIT Runner-up
2021–22 Ole Miss 23–910–6T–4th NCAA First Round
2022–23 Ole Miss 25–911–54th NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2023–24 Ole Miss 24–912–43rd NCAA Second Round
2024–25 Ole Miss 7–3
Ole Miss:110–87 (.558)40–54 (.426)
Total:204–150 (.576)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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