Bob Hurley

This article is about the high school basketball coach. For his son, the college coach and former pro player, see Bobby Hurley. For other people with similar names, see Robert Hurley.
Bob Hurley
Biographical details
Born (1947-07-31) July 31, 1947 (age 77)
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–2017St. Anthony HS
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 national
26 state (1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983–1991, 1993, 1995–1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016)
Awards
USA Today National Coach of the Year (1989, 1996, 2008)
Best Coach/Manager ESPY Award (2017)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2010 (profile)

Robert Emmet Hurley (born July 31, 1947)[1] is an American basketball coach. At the now-closed St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hurley amassed 26 state championships[2] in 39 years as a coach. On February 2, 2011, Hurley became the tenth coach in high school history to win 1,000 games.[3] Five of his teams have gone undefeated.

On April 5, 2010, he was announced as the only coach to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame that year and only the third high school coach in history to be so honored;[4] he was formally inducted on August 13 of that year.

Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, an All-American point guard and 2x National Champion at Duke and the head basketball coach at Arizona State, and Dan Hurley, a 2x National Champion as the head coach of the University of Connecticut.

  1. ^ "Robert "Bob" Hurley, Sr". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 15, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  2. ^ "New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association State Championship history" (PDF). New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-02. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  3. ^ The Hurleys Build a Dynasty by Grant Glickson, The New York Times, February 1, 2004. Accessed February 12, 2008.
  4. ^ "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2010" (Press release). Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. April 5, 2010. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.