Former men's basketball head coach Bill Courtney passes away, age 55

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Statement from Temple Athletics, where he joined the staff this past June. Courtney was head coach of the Big Red from 2010 to 2016.

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Man. Far too young.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Man. Far too young.

True.

[billhoward]

Interestingly, Cornell was Courtney's only head coaching job other than last year at Miami when he finished out the 2024-25 year for Miami after HC Jim Larranaga resigned in December (citing exhaustion and frustration with the changing landscape of college athletics), a year after making the final four. From Cornell, Courtney was an assistant at DePaul and Miami. He was an assistast this season at Temple.

Courtney at Cornell: .500 Ivy run his second year, overall won a third of the Ivy League.
Year    Team    Overall Ivy     Ivy Finish
2010–11   Cornell   10–18   6–8   T–5th   
2011–12   Cornell   12–16   7–7   5th   
2012–13   Cornell   13–18   5–9   T–6th   
2013–14   Cornell    2–26   1–13   8th   
2014–15   Cornell   13–17   5–9   T–5th   
2015–16   Cornell   10–18   3–11   T–7th   
Totals:         60–113 (.347) 27–57 (.321)   

Miami's ex-HC on Courtney, via the Miami Herald:
"Larranaga, reached by phone, said: "Bill was my best friend for 30 years. He was instrumental in every success I enjoyed at Bowling Green, George Mason and the University of Miami. It is very difficult for me to even talk about this. We were very, very close, spoke almost every day and had very long conversations."