Reggie Witherspoon (basketball)
Witherspoon at Alumni Arena in 2006 | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 21, 1961 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Empire State College ('95) |
| Playing career | |
| Erie CC | |
| Wheeling Jesuit | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984–1992 | Sweet Home HS (assistant) |
| 1992–1997 | Sweet Home HS |
| 1997–1999 | Erie CC |
| 1999–2013 | Buffalo |
| 2014–2015 | Alabama (assistant) |
| 2015–2016 | Chattanooga (assistant) |
| 2016–2024 | Canisius |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 306–358 (.461) 43–15 (.741) (NJCAA) |
| Tournaments | 1–1 (NIT) 0–2 (CBI) 3–3 (CIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Awards | |
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Phillip Reginald Witherspoon (born February 21, 1961) is an American college basketball coach who is the former men's basketball head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins and the Buffalo Bulls.
Witherspoon played college basketball at Erie Community College under John Beilein and then at Wheeling Jesuit under Jim O'Brien.
He was the head coach at Erie Community College, and head coach and assistant coach at Sweet Home High School before he was hired as the interim head coach at Buffalo in December 1999. Witherspoon was named full-time head coach on March 10, 2000. He was the first African American named head coach of a varsity sports team in any Western New York suburban school district. He was fired after the 2012–13 season, finishing his 14 season run with a 198–228 record. Witherspoon served one season as an assistant at Alabama under head coach Anthony Grant. In 2015, Witherspoon was let go by Alabama when Grant was replaced by Avery Johnson. He was subsequently named as an assistant on Matt McCall's staff at UT-Chattanooga.
In May 2016, Witherspoon was hired to replace the retiring Jim Baron at Canisius College. In the 2017–18 season, the Golden Griffins finished tied for a share of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular-season title and qualified for the 2018 College Basketball Invitational.
On March 16, 2024, Canisius announced that it had parted ways with Witherspoon after eight seasons.