Jeremy Cox - Men's Basketball Coach

Jeremy Cox

Title:
Assistant Coach

Cox enters his second season as an assistant
coach at Southern Miss. Cox has 24 years of coaching
experience, including 12 as a Division I assistant and nine as
a junior college head coach.
He has had a track record of success wherever he has
gone, including stints in the Big 12, SEC, Big East and Big
Ten. Cox, who has coached 10 student-athletes who have
reached the NBA, spent two seasons at USF prior to joining
Doc Sadler’s staff at Nebraska in 2011.
Cox comes to Southern Miss after spending last year
as the head coach of perennial Junior College power, the
College of Southern Idaho. Cox led the Golden Eagles to a
27-5 record, ranking 10th in the NJCAA poll. He led CSI to
the Scenic West Athletic Conference title and a runner-up
finish in the Region 18 Tournament, while being named
Region 18 Coach of the Year.
His two years at USF were highlighted by the program’s
first two wins in the Big East Tournament, including a
16-point comeback against Villanova in 2011. In his first
year at the school, Cox assisted the Bulls to USF’s third
20-win season with a 20-13 record and the school’s first
postseason appearance since 2002 (NIT). The Bulls won a
school-record nine Big East contests and were led by firstround
draft pick Dominique Jones, who earned honorablemention
All-America honors.
Jones, who was picked by Dallas with the 25th pick, after
winning the Big East scoring title as a junior, was one of
two players coached by Cox selected in the first round of
the 2010 NBA Draft. He joined Kentucky forward Patrick
Patterson, who was the No. 14 overall selection by the
Houston Rockets.
Prior to coaching at USF, Cox spent two years at the
University of Kentucky under then head coach Billy Gillispie,
helping the Kentucky Wildcats to the NCAA tournament in
2008 and the NIT quarterfinals in 2009. In his two seasons
as an assistant coach at Kentucky, the Wildcats posted 40
overall wins and a 12-4 conference record in 2007-08. That
same season the Wildcats earned their 17th-straight berth
into the NCAA tournament.
Cox was added to the Kentucky staff after serving under
Gillispie as an assistant coach at Texas A&M in 2006-07,
where he helped lead the Aggies to a spot in the Sweet
16 and a school-best final ranking of ninth in both the
Associated Press and Coaches’ polls. That season, the
Aggies finished second in the Big 12 with a 13-3 record and
were led by Acie Law, who earned consensus first-team
All-America honors and was a first-round pick in the 2007
NBA Draft.
Prior to his time in College Station, Cox was the head
coach at Arkansas-Fort Smith for three seasons, guiding
the Lions to the 2006 National Junior College Championship
while also being named the NJCAA National Coach of the
Year.
He led the Lions to an 85-15 record, three consecutive
20-win seasons and two Bi-State Conference East Division
Championships.
In the 2006 season, UA-Fort Smith was the unanimous
preseason No. 1-ranked team in the nation for the first
time in recent history and won its first NJCAA Region II
championship since 2002 and its first national championship
since 1981.
Cox began his association with UA-Fort Smith in 2002
when he was hired by Doc Sadler, then the head coach and
athletics director of the school. Cox served as an assistant
under Sadler for one year before Cox was promoted to head
coach when Sadler went to UTEP to serve on Gillispie’s
staff.
Cox arrived in Fort Smith after serving four years (1998-
99 through 2001-02) as head coach at Garden City College
(Kan.), where his teams amassed a 93-36 slate (.721
winning percentage).
Cox graduated in 1991 from Mesa State
College (Colo.) and received his master’s degree in sports
management from the United States Sports Academy (Ala.)
in 1999.