Tim Kaine - Men's Basketball Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Tim Kaine

At Murray State

Tim Kaine (pronounced cane) is in his seventh season with the Racers as an assistant coach in the 2021-22 season.
He has been a part one of the greatest periods of program history that includes three-straight OVC regular season championships (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20) and two OVC Tournament titles (2017-18, 2018-19).
In the last three seasons, the Racers are a combined 90-33 (.731) overall and 57-17 (.770) in OVC games and at home, they are 53-7 (.883) in the CFSB Center.
In the 2019-20 season, MSU was 23-9 and 15-3 in the OVC.
The Racers were Co-OVC champions, marking the program's 27th regular season title.
MSU had an 11-game winning streak overall and a 21-game home winning streak.
In the 2018-19 Season, MSU had 28 wins, marking the 10th time in 94 seasons that MSU posted 25 or more victories.
MSU was regular season OVC champions for 26th time & made their 17th NCAA appearance.
MSU was No. 12 seed and defeated No. 5 Marquette for the Racers’ fourth all-time win in the tournament.
In the 2017-18 season, the Racers were 26-6 and won the OVC regular season championship at 16-2.
The Racers competed in the NCAA Tournament in San Diego where they faced West Virginia.
Kaine has coached OVC consensus All-America selection Ja Morant and OVC Player of the Year and Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention selection Jonathan Stark and OVC Defensive Player of the Year, Shaq Buchanan and All-OVC selections Tevin Brown and KJ Williams.

Before MSU

Was assistant coach in the 2014-15 season at Georgia Southern where the Eagles had a 22-9 record.
Was an assistant coach from 2008-2014 at Florida Atlantic University. 2011 Sunbelt Conference Champions and NIT tournament appearance
Also had coaching stops at Winthrop University (2007-08): 2008 Big South tournament champions and NCAA tournament appearance
Assistant coach at Newberry College (2004-2007)
Assistant coach at Guilford College (2003-04): Recruited Ben Strong, 2007 DIII National Player of the Year
Graduate assistant at Austin Peay State University (2002-2003): 2003 OVC regular and tournament Champions and NCAA tournament appearance
Before playing at Winthrop, his playing career started at UT Martin where he played for Racer coaching legend Cal Luther.

Personal

Kaine graduated from Winthrop in 2002 with a degree in sports management and then earned a master’s degree in sport management from Austin Peay in 2003.
A native of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Kaine is married to Jenny Kaine (Ashworth) and the couple has two children, Tory (7) and Avery (4).