Temple Athletic Director and Former Head Basketball Coach
Fran Dunphy completed his 13th and final season at the helm of the Temple men's basketball program in 2018-19. The all-time winningest coach in Philadelphia Big 5 history, Dunphy was one of 25 active NCAA Division I coaches with 500 victories in his final season and is also just the fifth coach to win 200 games at two different Division I programs while also taking both schools to seven or more NCAA Tournaments. He joined Lou Henson (New Mexico, Illinois), Bob Huggins (Cincinnati, West Virginia), Eddie Sutton (Arkansas, Oklahoma State) and Roy Williams (Kansas, North Carolina) in this elite club. A part of Big 5 Basketball for the last six decades, Dunphy was inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame in April, 2019. He also received the John Wanamaker Award in June 2019 and will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame on November 7, 2019. Dunphy starred at La Salle as a player (1967-70) and served on the Explorer staff as an assistant coach before embarking on a 17-year stint as the head coach of the Penn Quakers (1989-06). He became the first person to serve as the head men's basketball coach at two Philadelphia Big 5 institutions when he took over the reins of the Temple program from Hall of Fame coach John Chaney on April 10, 2006. Dunphy earned back-to-back American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors at Temple in 2014-15 and 2015-16, and ranks third on the school's all-time coaching win list with a 270-162 record while guiding the Owls to eight NCAA Tournaments, five conference titles and a trip to the 2015 NIT Semifinals in his 13 years at the helm. His Temple teams defeated seven Top 10 teams in his tenure and appeared in the Top 25 during 24 weeks.
