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West Virginia native Ron Everhart, who has 27 years experience as a basketball coach including 18 as a head coach, was named assistant basketball coach at West Virginia University on May 14, 2012. Everhart compiled a 273-261 record in 18 seasons as a head coach at Duquesne, Northeastern and McNeese State. The Fairmont, W.Va., native comes to West Virginia from Duquesne, where he spent the last six seasons as head coach and led the Dukes to consecutive postseason appearances in 2009, 2010 and 2011. At Duquesne (2007-12), he took a floundering program - one that won just three games in 2005-06 - to one that finished six points shy of an NCAA tournament bid in 200809 and was tied for first in the Atlantic 10 and receiving votes in the AP Top 25 at the midpoint of the 2010-11 season. After ending a streak of 13 consecutive losing seasons with a 17-13 record in 2007-08, Everhart’s Dukes posted a 21-13 mark in earning an NIT appearance in 2009. In 2010, Duquesne won 16 games in earning a College Basketball Invitational bid. In 2011, DU reeled off 11 wins in a row - including the first eight in Atlantic 10 play - and received votes in the Associated Press Top 25 for three consecutive weeks before finishing 19-13 and earning a second consecutive CBI bid. Everhart was named NABC District 4 Coach of the Year for his effort. The `09 Dukes ended a 24-game losing streak against ranked teams with a 72-68 win over No. 9 (AP) Xavier during the regular season. It was DU’s first win over a ranked team since 1997 and first over a top 10 team since 1992. The ninth-ranked Musketeers were also the highest ranked team to fall to Duquesne since 1974. Two years ago, the Dukes jumped into the upper echelon of the Atlantic 10 in earning one of four opening round byes at the A-10 Championship. The ‘11 Dukes, who led the nation in assists (17.8), steals (9.9) and turnover margin (+6.7) went on to post the school’s first postseason win since the 1994 with a CBI first round win at Montana. Duquesne was the only team in the tournament to win a road game. In 2007-08, Everhart led the Dukes to the school’s first winning record in 14 seasons with a 17-13 mark. Everhart, who inherited a program coming off a school record-worst 3-24 season (308 RPI) in 2005-06, started from the ground up, totally retooling the roster in his first six weeks on the job. The nine first-year scholarship players Everhart brought to Pittsburgh were just getting acquainted when the program was dealt an unprecedented blow as five players were injured
Year - By- Year Coaching File Coaching History
Tulane Assistant Coach 1988-94
Georgia Tech McNeese State Graduate Assistant Head Coach Coach 1994-2001 1985-86 Northeastern VMI Head Coach Assistant Coach 2001-06 1986-88 Duquesne Head Coach 2006-12
West Virginia Assistant Coach 2012-
Playing Career
Virginia Tech 1981-85
Education
Family
Wife (Mirchana) Children (Ronnie and Gianna)
Personal
Birthday is January 11 Native of Fairmont, W.Va.
Virginia Tech, 1985 B.A. degree in political science
assistant coach
RONEVERHART in a shooting less than a month before the opening of practice. The Dukes picked up the pieces to post 10 wins, tie a 26-year-old school record for consecutive Atlantic 10 victories (five) and rank 21st nationally in scoring offense at 78.3 points per game. The Duquesne story of perseverance was acknowledged by the United States Basketball Writers Association, which honored the 200607 Dukes with its Most Courageous Award presented annually to honor “a player, coach, official or administrator who has demonstrated extraordinary courage reflecting honor on the sport of amateur basketball.” At Northeastern (2002-06), he inherited a program that averaged fewer than nine wins in the six seasons prior to his arrival and produced 19, 21 and 19 victories in his final three years. His 2004-05 team, which finished second in the America East Conference with a 15-3 record (21-10 overall), advanced to the postseason conference tournament championship game where it lost to NCAA Tournament Cinderella Vermont. The `05 Huskies went on to earn an NIT bid - marking Northeastern’s first postseason appearance in 14 years. In 2005-06, he led the Huskies to a 19-11 record and 12-6 mark in the Colonial Athletic Association. His starting point guard, Jose Juan Barea, was named CAA Player of the Year and forward Shawn James earned Defensive Player of the Year honors. At McNeese State (1995-2001), Everhart ended a streak of six consecutive sub-.500 seasons by leading the Cowboys to a 15-12 mark in 1995-96 - his second season at the Lake Charles, La., school. His seven-year stay culminated with a 22-9 record and Southland
Conference regular-season title in 2000-01. The 2000-01 Cowboys, earned the school’s first postseason bid in 12 years when they accepted an invitation to the NIT. Prior to accepting the head coaching job at McNeese State, Everhart spent six seasons as an assistant under Perry Clark at Tulane. At Tulane (1988-94), Everhart played a major role in resurrecting a Green Wave program that had disbanded from 1985-86 through 1988-89. He recruited three straight Metro Conference Freshman of the Year award-winners and accompanied the Green Wave to NCAA Tournament appearances in 1991-92 and 1992-93. A 1985 graduate of Virginia Tech, Everhart got his start as a college coach as a graduate assistant for Bobby Cremins’ 1985-86 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 Georgia Tech team. He then moved on to Virginia Military Institute for two seasons (1986-87 and 1987-88) before arriving at Tulane. Everhart played his final season of high school basketball for the legendary Morgan Wootten at DeMatha Catholic High in Hyattsville, Md., where he earned Catholic Prep All-America First Team honors. Prior to attending DeMatha, Everhart was a basketball and baseball letterman at his hometown Fairmont West High. Everhart was a four-year letterman at Virginia Tech and served as captain of the Hokies’ 1984-85 NCAA Tournament team. He graduated from Tech in 1985 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. Everhart and his wife, Mirchana, who was born and raised in Grafton, W.Va., are the parents of twins Ronnie and Gianna.