Jim Haney, Executive Director, NABC and NABC Foundation, Inc.

Jim Haney assumed duties as the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ executive director in June, 1992.

As executive director of the NABC, Haney has overseen the move of the association's headquarters from Branford, Conn., to Overland Park, Kansas. In July, 2004, Haney moved the NABC's national headquarters to downtown Kansas City, Mo., to realize his vision of creating an interactive fan venue to celebrate the game of men’s college basketball. In the fall of 2007, the NABC opened its state-of-the-art experiential facility, the College Basketball Experience, which is also home to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Both are located adjacent to the Sprint Center arena. In 2006, the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inducted its Inaugural Class, including Dr. James Naismith, John Wooden, Dean Smith, Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell.

Haney created the NABC Congress for each division of NCAA Basketball to work more effectively with the NCAA. He also initiated the NABC’s venture into basketball events with the formation of preseason basketball tournaments - the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic and the College Basketball Experience (CBE) Classic, with its championship rounds at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.

Part of Haney's vision to further the growth and visibility of the NABC was adopting the national awareness and education program "Guardians of the Game." The goal of the program is to focus attention on the positive aspects of the game of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of their players through advocacy, leadership, service and education. During his leadership, the NABC formed its partnership with the American Cancer Society that launched the widely successful Coaches vs. Cancer program to champion awareness, education and prevention. In 2001, Haney oversaw the development of the One Nation, One People, One Flag initiative which has been adopted nationally from high school programs on up to all levels of college basketball.

He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Board of Directors for USA Basketball.

Haney is only the fourth full-time executive director in the history of the NABC, following Clifford Wells (1960-73), William L. Wall (1973-75) and Joseph R. Vancisin (1975-92). Prior to accepting his current position, Haney spent four years as commissioner of the Big West Conference. His college basketball portfolio includes more than 31 years of experience starting as a student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shortly after graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1971, Haney joined the University of Oregon coaching staff as an assistant under his former Penn coach, Dick Harter. Haney later succeeded Harter and coached the Ducks’ basketball team for five years, beginning with the 1978-79 season.

After leaving Oregon in 1983, Haney accepted a position with Larry Brown's coaching staff at the University of Kansas, but before the tip-off of the season, he moved on to start his athletic administrative career as assistant commissioner of the Metro Conference. In 1985, Haney began a three-year term as commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference before heading to the Big West Conference in 1988.

• Jim Haney, Executive Director, NABC and NABC Foundation, Inc.
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