Richard Allen Riley II (born January 8, 1983) is an American college basketball coach and current head coach at the University of South Alabama.

Playing career

Riley played one collegiate season at

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. He graduated in 2005 from EKU.

Coaching career

Widely talked about as one of the highest regarded up-and-coming head coaches in Division 1 Men's Basketball, Richie Riley was recently ranked 16th on ESPN.com's “40 Under 40” list and a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award, presented annually to the top NCAA Division I minority coach by CollegeInsider.com. Known as an elite program builder and high level recruiter, especially in the transfer portal, Richie Riley's South Alabama Jaguars have had a top rated recruiting class all three of his years. Riley joined Cliff Ellis's staff at

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for his first Division one assistant coaching job, spending three seasons there before a one-year stop as an assistant coach at his alma mater,

. He then had assistant stops at UAB and Clemson before accepting the head coaching position at Nicholls State becoming the 11th coach in program history, replacing J. P. Piper. After two seasons with Nicholls State, Riley was named the 10th head coach in program history at South Alabama, replacing

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Head coaching record

NCAA DI

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