


In his first Division I head coaching job, Tyndall served as head coach at his alma mater Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Middle Tennessee had winning seasons all four of those seasons. In the 2001–02 season, Tyndall served as associate head coach at Idaho under Leonard Perry.įrom 2002 to 2006, Tyndall was associate head coach at Middle Tennessee under Kermit Davis.

This LSU team also featured Stromile Swift, the #2 pick in the 2000 NBA draft. Tyndall helped LSU finish first in the SEC West Division in the 1999–00 season and make the Sweet 16 round of the 2000 NCAA tournament. Catharine, Tyndall got his first NCAA Division I coaching position as an assistant at LSU under John Brady, a position he would hold from 1997 to 2001. In 1997, Tyndall earned NJCAA Region 7 National Coach of the Year and Kentucky Junior College Coach of the Year honors. Catharine to a 30–5 record and the school's first-ever NJCAA tournament appearance. Catharine College in Springfield, Kentucky. Tyndall had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. From 1994 to 1996, he was assistant coach at Iowa Central Community College. 1.1 As an assistant / Junior College head coachĬoaching career As an assistant / Junior College head coach Īfter graduating from Morehead State University in 1993, Tyndall began coaching at the junior college level.In 2016, the NCAA found Tyndall liable for the violations, vacating all of his wins at Southern Miss and banning him from the collegiate coaching ranks for 10 years. However, violations of academic eligibility and financial aid rules came to light in 2015, causing Tyndall to be fired from Tennessee after one season. From 2012 to 2014, Tyndall was head coach at Southern Miss he was head coach at Tennessee in the 2014–15 season. 4 seed Louisville in the 2011 Tournament. In six seasons, he had 114 wins and two NCAA Tournament appearances, including an upset of no. Tyndall turned around a losing program into a top performer in the Ohio Valley Conference. Returning to his alma mater, Tyndall was head coach at Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Tyndall moved up to the NCAA level as an assistant coach at LSU, Idaho, and Middle Tennessee from 1997 to 2006. He had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. Tyndall began his coaching career at the junior college level, first as an assistant at Iowa Central Community College from 1994 to 1996. His teams are known for pressing and playing an unconventional match-up zone, a highly successful variation of the defensive system employed by coach Rick Pitino at Louisville. Tyndall played college basketball at Iowa Central Community College and Morehead State and has been a basketball coach since 1994. SEC West regular season champion ( 2000)ĭonald Joseph Tyndall (born June 14, 1970) is an American basketball coach currently working as the head coach for Chipola College of the NJCAA.Conference USA regular season champions ( 2014).
