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Click Here To Email Coach Jeff Reynolds Jeff Reynolds, the seventh head coach in Air Force basketball history, begins his third year at the helm in 2009-10.Reynolds guided a young team to a 10-21 overall record last year, and led the Falcons to their first-ever victory at the MWC Championships with a thrilling, 71-67 victory over Colorado State in the first round. Reynolds, who served as an assistant coach with the Falcons for two seasons before his promotion to head coach on April 17, 2007, guided the Falcons to a fifth-place finish in the Mountain West Conference in his first season after Air Force was picked eighth in the preseason media and coaches poll. It was the greatest margin between prediction and actual finish in the conference that season. Reynolds, who enters the `09-10 campaign with a 108-69 career record in six seasons, took over a program that had just graduated its best class ever and returned just one player that had ever started a game. He led the team to an impressive 16-14 overall record and 8-8 mark in the Mountain West Conference. During his two seasons as an assistant, Reynolds helped guide Air Force to two of its most successful campaigns on the basketball court. In 2005-06, the Falcons were 24-7, the best record in program history, and played in the NCAA Tournament for just the fourth time ever. In '06-07, Air Force posted a 26-9 record, setting a new school record for most victories in one season, and advanced to the semifinals of the NIT. Air Force was just one of 17 Division I teams to win at least 50 games in those two seasons. In addition, the Falcons posted a 31-1 record at Clune Arena and Reynolds helped four Falcons, Jacob Burtschi, Nick Welch, Dan Nwaelele and Matt McCraw, join the 1,000-point club during the 2006-07 campaign. Reynolds came to the Academy after serving as an assistant coach at Tulane for five seasons. During his time at Tulane, Reynolds coached Linton Johnson, who has played in the NBA for six seasons, most recently with the Phoenix Suns. Johnson was a member of the San Antonio Spurs when they won the NBA championship in 2005. Prior to his stint at Tulane, Reynolds served as the head coach at Division II Wingate University in Wingate, N.C., where he logged an impressive 61-27 record in three seasons. In those three seasons, Reynolds built the program into a Division II powerhouse. In 1999-2000, his team led the nation in scoring defense and posted an impressive 26-4 record, closing the year with a final national ranking of No. 7 and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs also won their second-consecutive South Atlantic Conference title and established the longest home-court winning streak at the Division II level (26 games). While at Wingate, Reynolds coached current NBA player Lorinza "Junior" Harrington for two seasons. Harrington was named to the all-SAC Freshman Team in 1998 and earned Division II All-America honors as a senior. He has played three seasons in the NBA, including the 2006-07 campaign with the Memphis Grizzlies. In 1998-99, Reynolds guided Wingate to its first NCAA Tournament bid, as well as its first national ranking, and the Bulldogs closed that season with a 23-6 mark as Reynolds earned South Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year honors. As the top assistant coach at his alma mater, UNC-Greensboro, from 1995-97, Reynolds helped the program to the 1996 Big South Championship and a bid to the 1996 NCAA Tournament. The Spartans fell to Elite Eight team Cincinnati, 66-61, in the first round. Prior to that, he served for four years as the top assistant at UNC-Wilmington, helping the Seahawks to Colonial Athletic Association Most Improved Team honors in 1992. Reynolds began his coaching career at James Madison University in 1981, serving as a part-time assistant for a team which won 24 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 1982. He went on to Division II power Randolph-Macon College, which reeled off three straight NCAA Tournament appearances and earned a No. 4 national ranking in the final poll of 1984. He logged one year as the head coach of North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1985-86, leading the program to a 21-7 mark and the Dixie Conference Championship, before moving on to Winthrop College as an assistant coach for four years. At Winthrop, he was directly involved in the team's transition from Division II to Division I, and, in 1988, the school captured the Big South Conference Championship. Reynolds, 53, is married to the former Janet Montgomery and the couple resides in Colorado Springs. Jeff Reynolds' Head Coaching Record
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