Richie Riley

Richard Allen Riley II (born January 8, 1983) is an American college basketball coach and current head coach at the University of South Alabama.

Playing career Riley played one collegiate season at Eastern Kentucky under coach Travis Ford. He graduated in 2005 from EKU.

Coaching career As a head coach in Division 1 Men's Basketball, Richie Riley was ranked 16th on ESPN.com's “40 Under 40” list in 2020, and a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award, presented annually to the top NCAA Division I minority coach by CollegeInsider.com.

Riley joined Cliff Ellis's staff at Coastal Carolina for his first Division one assistant coaching job, spending three seasons there before a one-year stop as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Eastern Kentucky. He then held assistant positions at UAB and Clemson before accepting the head coaching position at Nicholls State, becoming the 11th coach in program history, replacing J. P. Piper.

After two seasons with Nicholls State, Riley was named the 10th head coach in program history at South Alabama, replacing Matthew Graves.

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NCAA DI