Luke Murray
American basketball player and coach
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Luke Murray (born April 1, 1985) is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant for the UConn Huskies men's basketball team.
Murray in 2023 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Assistant Coach |
| Team | UConn |
| Conference | Big East |
| Biographical details | |
| Alma mater | Fairfield |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2008–2009 | Post (assistant) |
| 2009–2010 | Arizona (GA) |
| 2010–2011 | Wagner (assistant) |
| 2011–2013 | Towson (assistant) |
| 2013–2015 | Rhode Island (assistant) |
| 2015–2018 | Xavier (assistant) |
| 2018–2021 | Louisville (assistant) |
| 2021–present | UConn (assistant) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2007–2008 | Quinnipiac (DBO) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| As assistant: | |
Early life
Murray was born to actor Bill Murray and Margaret Kelly.[1] He attended St. Luke's School in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he played basketball and football.[2] Murray attended Fairfield University and graduated in 2007.[3] He began coaching AAU basketball during his freshman year at Fairfield.[4] He later served as an assistant on an AAU team coached by former Boston Celtics head coach John Carroll during his final years in college.[5]
Coaching career
Murray began his college coaching career in 2007 as the director of basketball operations at Quinnipiac under coach Tom Moore.[6] After one season he was hired as an assistant coach at Post University. Murray left Post to take a graduate assistant position at Arizona in 2009.[7]
In 2010, Murray was hired as an assistant coach at Wagner by head coach Dan Hurley.[8] He joined to the coaching staff at Towson in 2011[2] before reuniting as an assistant with Hurley at Rhode Island in 2013.[5]
Murray was hired by head coach Chris Mack at Xavier in 2015 after two seasons at Rhode Island.[9] He followed Mack when he was hired as the head coach at Louisville in 2018.[10] There, Murray served as the primary recruiter for the Cardinals in addition to his assistant coaching duties.[11] His contract was not renewed at the end of the 2020–21 season.[12]
Murray was hired a third time by Dan Hurley, now the head coach at UConn, on May 3, 2021.[13] He began coordinating the Huskies' offense prior to the start of the team's 2022–23 national championship season.[14] He continued as offensive coordinator the following season as UConn repeated as national champion.[15][16]
Murray signed a three-year contract extension on July 8, 2024 to stay with Hurley and UConn.[17]