Kevin Mackey
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| Kevin Mackey | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Saint Anselm College | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Born | August 21, 1946 (age 60) | |
| Career Highlights | ||
| Overall | 142-69 (.673) | |
| Coaching positions | ||
| 1983-1990 | Cleveland State | |
Kevin Mackey (born August 21, 1946)is a former head coach of men's basketball at Cleveland State University. Although several low moments of his life were made public, Mackey was also a popular symbol of success when his CSU Vikings upset the Indiana Hoosiers to make the Sweet 16 in the 1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Excerpt from an SI.com article about his 1990 arrest outside of a crack house:
- Kevin Mackey was far from the only coach to succumb to a substance-abuse problem and run afoul of the law. Mackey was, however, arrested under arguably the most embarrassing circumstances.
- In the summer of 1990, Cleveland police received a tip that Mackey was using cocaine inside a known crack house. When the police got there, television reporters who monitor their police radios arrived in tow to record Mackey emerging from the house with a prostitute on his arm. Cleveland State fired Mackey a few days later, and after he pleaded no contest to charges of cocaine abuse and driving under the influence, a judge suspended his prison sentence and ordered him to enter rehab for 60 days.
- Mackey says he is still clean and sober. After bouncing around the subterranean coaching circuit for a number of years, he joined the Indiana Pacers as a scout in 2004.
In 1999, he again surfaced as a head coach, this time in professional basketball where he led the Mansfield Hawks to the International Basketball Association championship.
In 2004, he was a first-year scout for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA [1].
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- Coached at Cleveland State University from 1983 to 1990.
- While at Cleveland State, posted a record of 144 wins and 67 losses.
- Cleveland State, with Mackey as coach, also made two National Invitation Tournament appearances and averaged more than 20 wins per season.
- Since 1990, Mackey has had a successful career in Minor league basketball. In 1991, he was a mid-seaon relacement coach for the Miami Tropics of the United States Basketball League and led the team to the title game.
- With the Atlantic City Seagulls, Mackey captured three consecutive USBL Championships, something no other coach in the USBL has done.
- In his first year with the Mansfield Hawks, Mackey won the division and league championship.
- Coached Trenton New Jersey of the I.B.C., Jacksonville of the USBL and was National Director of Scouting for Hoops Global and Director of Player Personnel for Pro Basketball USA.
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| Preceded by Ray Dieringer |
Cleveland State Head Men's Basketball Coach 1983 – 1990 |
Succeeded by Mike Boyd |
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