Fran Dunphy
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 5, 1948 Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1967–1970 | La Salle |
| 1973–1975 | Cherry Hill Rookies |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1971–1975 | Army (assistant) |
| 1977–1979 | Malvern Prep |
| 1979–1980 | La Salle (assistant) |
| 1980–1984 | American (assistant) |
| 1985–1988 | La Salle (assistant) |
| 1988–1989 | Penn (assistant) |
| 1989–2006 | Penn |
| 2006–2019 | Temple |
| 2022–2025 | La Salle |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2020–2021 | Temple (interim) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 625–380 (.622) (college) |
| Tournaments | 3–17 (NCAA Division I) 3–2 (NIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Francis Joseph Dunphy (born October 5, 1948) is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania for 17 seasons, Temple University for 13 seasons, and La Salle University for three seasons. Originally starting at Penn in 1989, Dunphy led the school to ten Ivy League championships. He was hired at Temple to succeed John Chaney in 2006, spending 13 seasons with the program and making eight NCAA tournament appearances. After a brief stint as Temple's interim athletic director, in 2022, Dunphy was named head coach of the La Salle Explorers, his alma mater, where he coached for three seasons until his retirement in 2025.
Nicknamed "Mr. Big 5", Dunphy holds the record for the most career wins (625) by a coach in Philadelphia Big 5 history and has coached three of the six member schools in the city series. He is considered one of the greatest head coaches in Ivy League history, with his 317 wins and ten conference titles with Penn second only to former Princeton head coach Pete Carril.