Murphy wins NABC Outstanding Service Award
Murphy is being honored at this year’s NABC Convention in San Antonio, Texas, on April 5, 2008 along with Rick Bowen, the director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
For parts of four decades, Murphy was Hamilton basketball. In Murphy’s 34 seasons as head coach of the Clinton, N.Y., college, he posted a 602-263 record with the Continentals and had 16 seasons with 20 or more wins. He has been inducted into the New York, Utica and SUNY Halls of Fame and was named the March of Dimes Coach of the Year in 1999. Murphy is also a five-time New York State coach of the Year, a three time NABC District Coach of the Year, and was named the NABC National Coach of the Year in 1979. Murphy’s legacy goes far beyond basketball in the state of New York as he also coached baseball, football and track during his tenure at Hamilton and served as the school’s director of athletics for 23 years. He was involved in countless committees involving student-athletes while at Hamilton and helped increase the school’s interaction with the local community. He was a noted fundraiser and was particularly successful in his involvement with Coaches vs. Cancer.
Now at Northeastern, Murphy is coaching under his former player Bill Coen, who lettered at Hamilton from 1979-83. Murphy and his wife, Jo Ann, have two sons, Mike and Brian. Both are also coaching in college basketball with Mike at The College of Mount St. Vincent (N.Y.) and Brian at Morrisville State College (N.Y.).
March 17, 2008
Boston, MANortheastern University’s Thomas Murphy, the associate head coach of the men’s basketball team, has been honored with the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Division III Outstanding Service Award, which is given to coaches whose actions “inside and outside the lines” of coaching have distinguished them as valuable members of their communities. Murphy coached at Division III Hamilton College from 1970-2004.
