Donnie Tyndall

Donnie Tyndall

Tyndall in 2013 as Southern Miss coach.
Chipola College
Position	Head coach
League	Panhandle Conference
Personal information
Born	(1970-06-14) June 14, 1970 (age 54) Ravenna, Michigan, U.S.
Career information
High school	Academy of the Holy Angels
College	Iowa Central CC (1989–1990) Morehead State (1990–1993)
Coaching career	1994–present
Career history
As coach:
1994–1996	Iowa Central CC (assistant)
1996–1997	St. Catharine JC
1997–2001	LSU (assistant)
2001–2002	Idaho (associate HC)
2002–2006	Middle Tennessee (associate HC)
2006–2012	Morehead State
2012–2014	Southern Miss
2014–2015	Tennessee
2016–2018	Raptors 905 (assistant)
2018–2019	Grand Rapids Drive (assistant)
2019–2020	Grand Rapids Drive
2020–present	Chipola College
Career highlights and awards
2× OVC tournament (2009, 2011) Conference USA regular season (2014)

Donald Joseph Tyndall (born June 14, 1970) is an American basketball coach currently working as the head coach for Chipola College of the NJCAA. Tyndall played college basketball at Iowa Central Community College and Morehead State and has been a basketball coach since 1994. 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.^[1]

Tyndall began his coaching career at the junior college level, first as an assistant at Iowa Central Community College from 1994 to 1996. He had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. Catharine College, where he had 30 wins. Tyndall moved up to the NCAA level as an assistant coach at LSU, Idaho, and Middle Tennessee from 1997 to 2006.

Returning to his alma mater, Tyndall was head coach at Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Tyndall turned around a losing program into a top performer in the Ohio Valley Conference. In six seasons, he had 114 wins and two NCAA Tournament appearances, including an upset of no. 4 seed Louisville in the 2011 tournament. From 2012 to 2014, Tyndall was head coach at Southern Miss; he was head coach at Tennessee in the 2014–15 season. However, violations of academic eligibility and financial aid rules came to light in 2015, causing Tyndall to be fired from Tennessee after one season. 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.