BASKETBALL - Washington & Lee - Washington and Lee University

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ADAM HUTCHINSON, HEAD COACH
Adam Hutchinson is in his sixth season as
the head men's basketball coach at Washington
and Lee. He has notched a 39-85 record with
the Generals, including a 26-25 record over the
past two seasons.
Hutchinson was named the 2008 Old
Dominion Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
after guiding W&L to a 15-11 overall record, its
best mark in nearly two decades. The Generals
also went 11-7 in conference play and earned the
fifth seed for the ODAC Tournament. Hutchinson
also helped mentor Greg Bienemann '08 to First
Team All-ODAC honors for the second-straight
season.
W&L's success last season followed an 11-14 record in 2007-08. The 11 wins were
a seven-game improvement from the season before and helped to elevate the Generals'
program into a winner.
Hutchinson came to Washington and Lee after spending two seasons as the head
coach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In those two seasons,
he led the Spartans to a 14-36 overall
record while rebuilding the program.
His initial recruiting class included eight
players, most notably Carson Oren, the
2003 University Athletic Association
Rookie of the Year.
Prior to CWRU, Hutchinson was
the head coach at Stevens Institute of
Technology from 1999-01, compiling a
19-31 overall mark. His second season
resulted in a 12-13 overall record, a
five-game improvement over his first
campaign.
Hutchinson began his collegiate
coaching career in 1994 as an assistant
coach at his alma mater, Amherst College.
In his two seasons with the Lord
Jeffs, he was responsible for recruiting
the school's second all-time leading
scorer in All-American Jamal Wilson
and helping lead the team to the NCAA
Division III Elite Eight.
In 1996, Hutchinson assumed
the role of player and coach with the
Cardiff Clippers of the English National
Basketball League before spending the
1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons as an assistant coach at Emory University.
Originally a walk-on player at Amherst, Hutchinson started two seasons at guard in
leading the Lord Jeffs to the ECAC Tournament each year. He was named team captain
as a senior.
Hutchinson graduated from Amherst in 1993 with a bachelor of arts in African-
American studies and earned his master of science in sport management from the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1997. He and his wife, Erin, have two sons,
Jason and Donald.
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