Jamill Jones was named an assistant coach for UCF Men's Basketball in April of 2016.
With Jones on staff, the Knights had immediate success with an overall record of 24-12, doubling the team’s win total from 2015-16 and marking the sixth best turnaround in all of NCAA.
With just seven scholarship players, the Knights earned their highest ever seed in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, and third seeded UCF advanced to The American Semifinals for the first time in program history.
A season full of firsts, UCF hosted its first NIT game in 2016-17, defeating Colorado for the program’s first ever win in an NIT or NCAA Tournament game. The Knights went on to defeat top seeded Illinois State on the road, before coming home to the first ever sell-out crowd at CFE Arena and winning 68-58 over Illinois to earn a spot in the NIT Final Four.
With Jones in the fold, UCF led all of NCAA Division I in defensive field goal percentage, holding opponents to just 36.5 percent from the floor. The Knights were also sixth in the nation, allowing only 61.2 points per game, and gave up 45 or less points in four games over the course of the year.
Jones helped develop center Tacko Fall into one of the dominant big men in the American Athletic Conference and the nation in 2016-17. Fall was named The American Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Award for the top center in the country.
Under Jones' leadership, Fall averaged 10.9 points per game, was second in the conference with 9.5 rebounds per contest and set a UCF record with 94 blocked shots. The 7-foot-6 center shot 71.5 percent from the floor and ked the nation with 107 dunks on the season.
Jones spent the 2015-16 season as an assistant at VCU, helping guide the program to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a share of the Atlantic 10 regular season championship. In “The Big Dance”, the 10th-seeded Rams upset seventh-seeded Oregon State in the first round before falling to eventual Final Four participant and second-seeded Oklahoma, 85-81.
Prior to his stint in Virginia, the Washington, D.C., native assisted in leading Florida Gulf Coast to three consecutive postseason appearances and back-to-back 22-win seasons, which is tied for the second-most in FGCU’s Division I history. In 2013-14, Jones and the Eagles won its first Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship and made its first trip to the NIT.
Before starting his collegiate coaching career, Jones spent five years as an assistant coach with Nike Team Takeover out of Washington, D.C. Over the five-year span, he worked with more than 70 Division-I scholarship players and captured the 2010 EYBL Championship under head coach Keith Stevens.
Jones also helped organize and run the 2011 and 2012 National High School Hoop Festival, in addition to serving as a skills instructor at the 2012 Nike Skills Summit.
Jones graduated from Arkansas Tech in 2008 after playing one season at North Platte Community College where he is one of 50 players in the program’s history to be named to the Athletic Department’s Hall of Fame.
As of April 2017
With Jones on staff, the Knights had immediate success with an overall record of 24-12, doubling the team’s win total from 2015-16 and marking the sixth best turnaround in all of NCAA.
With just seven scholarship players, the Knights earned their highest ever seed in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, and third seeded UCF advanced to The American Semifinals for the first time in program history.
A season full of firsts, UCF hosted its first NIT game in 2016-17, defeating Colorado for the program’s first ever win in an NIT or NCAA Tournament game. The Knights went on to defeat top seeded Illinois State on the road, before coming home to the first ever sell-out crowd at CFE Arena and winning 68-58 over Illinois to earn a spot in the NIT Final Four.
With Jones in the fold, UCF led all of NCAA Division I in defensive field goal percentage, holding opponents to just 36.5 percent from the floor. The Knights were also sixth in the nation, allowing only 61.2 points per game, and gave up 45 or less points in four games over the course of the year.
Jones helped develop center Tacko Fall into one of the dominant big men in the American Athletic Conference and the nation in 2016-17. Fall was named The American Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Award for the top center in the country.
Under Jones' leadership, Fall averaged 10.9 points per game, was second in the conference with 9.5 rebounds per contest and set a UCF record with 94 blocked shots. The 7-foot-6 center shot 71.5 percent from the floor and ked the nation with 107 dunks on the season.
Jones spent the 2015-16 season as an assistant at VCU, helping guide the program to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a share of the Atlantic 10 regular season championship. In “The Big Dance”, the 10th-seeded Rams upset seventh-seeded Oregon State in the first round before falling to eventual Final Four participant and second-seeded Oklahoma, 85-81.
Prior to his stint in Virginia, the Washington, D.C., native assisted in leading Florida Gulf Coast to three consecutive postseason appearances and back-to-back 22-win seasons, which is tied for the second-most in FGCU’s Division I history. In 2013-14, Jones and the Eagles won its first Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship and made its first trip to the NIT.
Before starting his collegiate coaching career, Jones spent five years as an assistant coach with Nike Team Takeover out of Washington, D.C. Over the five-year span, he worked with more than 70 Division-I scholarship players and captured the 2010 EYBL Championship under head coach Keith Stevens.
Jones also helped organize and run the 2011 and 2012 National High School Hoop Festival, in addition to serving as a skills instructor at the 2012 Nike Skills Summit.
Jones graduated from Arkansas Tech in 2008 after playing one season at North Platte Community College where he is one of 50 players in the program’s history to be named to the Athletic Department’s Hall of Fame.
As of April 2017