(1943-04-20) April 20, 1943 (age 81) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Playing career
1962–1965
Ripon
Position(s)
Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1965–1966
West Bend HS (freshmen)
1966–1968
Mineral Point HS
1968–1969
Marion HS
1969–1972
New London HS
1972–1976
Eau Claire Memorial HS
1976–1985
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
1985–1995
Green Bay
1995–2001
Wisconsin
2003–2006
Washington State
Head coaching record
Overall
489–307 (college)
Tournaments
5–7 (NCAA Division I)
2–3 (NIT)
6–3 (NAIA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Regional – Final Four (2000)
MCC tournament (1995)
2 Mid-Con regular season (1992, 1994)
2 Mid-Con tournament (1991, 1994)
4 WIAC regular season (1982–1985)
Awards
Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award (2013)
2× Wisconsin State University Conference Coach of the Year (1982, 1985)
NAIA Coach of the Year (1984)
2× Mid-Con Coach of the Year (1990, 1992)
Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame (2007)
Richard A. Bennett (born April 20, 1943) is an American former college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is the father of current Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett and former Northern Illinois women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett.
Point renamed its basketball court Bennett Court to honor both DickBennett and his brother Jack Bennett. In 1985, Bennett moved to the University of Wisconsin–Green...
concerns at the school for his firing. The team would go on to hire DickBennett from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and he finished his first...
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football program to national prominence. He also hired basketball coaches DickBennett and Bo Ryan, both of whom reached the "Final Four" of the NCAA Tournament...
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Wisconsin–Stevens Point, playing at Stevens Point from 1982 to 1984 under head coach DickBennett, and with Terry Porter (who later became player and eventually a head...
of Intercollegiate Athletics NAIA school. He played under head coach DickBennett, and with Brad Soderberg (who later became the head coach at Saint Louis...
(1987–1994) Kevin Eastman (1994–1999) Paul Graham (1999–2003) DickBennett (2003–2006) Tony Bennett (2006–2009) Ken Bone (2009–2014) Ernie Kent (2014–2019)...
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