Takayo Lemont Siddle (born May 25, 1986) is an American basketball

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who is the current head coach of the

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team.

Playing career

Siddle was a basketball standout at

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, averaging 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a senior. He attended

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in 2004–05 and helped the team reach the prep school championship game. Siddle played college basketball at Gardner–Webb under Rick Scruggs. As a sophomore, Siddle averaged 8.6 points per game. In his junior season, Siddle scored eight points in a 84–68 Runnin' Bulldogs win at

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vs. 20th-ranked

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to advance to the final four of the 2007 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in

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Coaching career

After his playing career, Siddle became an assistant coach at

for one season under

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. He then returned to his alma mater to work for as an assistant coach at Gardner–Webb for four seasons under both

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and

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. Siddle then reunited with Keatts as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, where the Seahawks won back-to-back CAA regular season and conference tournament titles in 2016 and 2017. He was named interim coach of the Seahawks in March 2017. He followed Keatts as an assistant at

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from 2017 to 2020 before returning to UNC Wilmington as head coach on March 13, 2020, as the 13th head coach in Seahawk history. Siddle signed a five-year deal with a base salary of $300,000 plus supplemental compensation.

Head coaching record

References

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