Jeff Battle
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Associate Head Coach |
| Team | Georgetown |
| Conference | Big East |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 26, 1961 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Marshall University |
| Playing career | |
| 1979–1985 | Marshall |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1986 | Marshall (GA) |
| 1986–1988 | Delaware (GA) |
| 1988–1990 | Caesar Rodney HS |
| 1990–1993 | Delaware State (assistant) |
| 1993–1994 | Loyola (MD) (assistant) |
| 1995–2001 | Xavier (assistant) |
| 2001–2014 | Wake Forest (AHC) |
| 2015–2021 | Providence (assistant) |
| 2021–2023 | Providence (AHC) |
| 2023–present | Georgetown (AHC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 1–0 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame[1] | |
Jeff Battle (born October 26, 1961) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the associate head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team. He formerly was an assistant coach at Providence, Wake Forest, Xavier, Loyola Maryland, Delaware State, Delaware, and Marshall.
Battle grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended and played basketball at Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School.[2]
He did not receive any scholarships to play Division I college basketball, but was given the opportunity to be a walk-on at Marshall University. Battle ultimately became the starting point guard for the Thundering Herd, and helped lead the team to consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament.[3]
Coaching career
Assistant to Skip Prosser (1993–2007)
After his playing career at Marshall, Battle served as graduate assistant at multiple schools, as well as the head coach of Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware before accepting an offer to be an assistant coach at Loyola University Maryland under Skip Prosser.[4] Battle worked as an assistant to Prosser for the next fourteen seasons, including stints at Loyola, Xavier, and Wake Forest. Battle was considered as a potential candidate to replace Prosser as the head coach at Wake Forest after Prosser's death in 2007.[4]
Wake Forest post–Prosser (2007–2015)
Battle was retained as an assistant by the next two head coaches at Wake Forest after Prosser's death. He ultimately left the program after head coach Jeff Bzdelik was fired in 2015.[5]
Assistant to Ed Cooley (2015–present)
Providence
During his tenure at Wake Forest, Battle became close with then-Boston College assistant Ed Cooley. In 2015, after Battle's departure from Wake Forest, Cooley hired him to be an assistant on his staff at Providence.[6]
Georgetown
Cooley left Providence to take the head coaching position at Georgetown in 2023.[7] The rest of the assistant coaching staff ultimately came with him, with Battle being named Associate Head Coach.[8]
During Cooley's one-game suspension in 2025, Battle coached the Hoyas to a victory against Coppin State.[9]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown Hoyas (Big East Conference) (2025) | |||||||||
| 2025–26 | Georgetown | 1–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Georgetown: | 1–0 (1.000) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
| Total: | 1–0 (1.000) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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