Hall of Fame

XULA men's basketball

Denny Alexander

  • Class
  • Induction
    2023
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball
•  From Michigan
•  Head coach of men's basketball and director of athletics at XULA from 1978-90
•  Program's first head coach to reach 200 victories
•  Three-time Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
•  XULA career record of 212-129 (.622) in 12 seasons
•  His teams reached 20 victories five times
•  Won three GCAC regular-season championships, including the league's first two, and a pair of NAIA District 30/GCAC Tournament championships
•  Qualified twice for NAIA nationals
•  His fourth XULA team was 29-2 and achieved the highest-ever Gold Rush seeding at NAIA nationals, No. 3
•  Also served as XULA director of athletics, as chairman of the NAIA District 30 men's basketball committee and as a rater/voter on the NAIA national poll
•  Coached 2022 XULA hall-of-famers Alvin "Bo" Dukes and Kenny Loyd and 2023 inductee Derrick Collins
•  Inducted into the Aquinas College Athletic Hall of Fame (basketball athlete) in 2005
•  Died Sept. 6, 2016, at age 70
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