Pat Kennedy is an American college basketball coach, currently coaching at Pace University. He was previously the men's basketball coach at Towson University, Iona College, Florida State University, DePaul University, and the University of Montana. Kennedy is a native of Keyport, New Jersey, and attended Red Bank Catholic High School. He is a 1975 graduate of King's College. After college, he became an assistant coach to Jim Valvano at Iona. In 1979 when Valvano left for North Carolina State University, Kennedy took the head job at Iona at the age of 27. In six years, he led the Gaels to two NIT and two NCAA tournament appearances. He compiled a 124?60 record while at Iona. After Iona, Kennedy went to Florida State. He would spend 11 years in Tallahassee, leading the Seminoles to 2 NIT and 5 NCAA tournament appearances including a Sweet Sixteen and Elite 8 appearances. During his tenure at FSU, he won 202 games and lost 131. During the Seminoles first year in the ACC, he was the ACC Coach of the Year in 1992 and led FSU to back to back 2nd place finishes in the ACC. He was appointed to succeed Joey Meyer as head coach at DePaul on June 12, 1997. [More at Wikipedia]

January 5th, 1952 in Keyport (Age 72)