# List of VMI Keydets head basketball coaches

The VMI Keydets basketball program competes in the Southern Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, representing the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The program has had 26 head coaches since its inception in 1908–09.
The school's first team was led by Pete Krebs, who guided the Keydets to a 3–3 record in his only season as head coach. After 16 years playing as an independent, VMI joined the Southern Conference in 1924, where they would play for nearly eighty years until joining the Big South Conference in 2003. VMI has had only three NCAA tournament appearances in hits history, the first of which came in 1964 under L. F. "Weenie" Miller. VMI was eliminated in the first round with an 86–60 loss to Princeton.
VMI's most successful run occurred in the late 1970s where Bill Blair led the Keydets to wins over Tennessee and DePaul after a 22–10 campaign in 1975–76. The Keydets finally fell to Rutgers in the Elite 8, 91–75. After Blair departed for Colorado, Charlie Schmaus took over and, with a roster of VMI Hall of Famer Ron Carter alongside Will Bynum, Dave Montgomery, and John Krovic, guided VMI to its best season in school history with a 26–4 record and their third NCAA tournament appearance, where they defeated Duquesne 73–66, and lost to Kentucky in the following round by a score of 93–78. At the season's end, VMI was ranked #20 in the AP Poll, the school's first and only final AP ranking to this date.
Duggar Baucom, who led the Keydets from 2005 to 2015, is the school's all-time leader in wins with 151 total victories, and also holds the program record for conference wins with 73. He was replaced by Dan Earl, who served as head coach of the Keydets for seven years from 2015 to 2022.
VMI's current head coach is Andrew Wilson, who was hired prior to the 2022–23 season.

## Key

General :
| # | Number of coaches |
| GC | Games coached |
| $^†$ | Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| BT | Basketball Times Coaches of the Year |
| NCHOF | National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame |
Overall :
| W | Wins |
| L | Losses |
| W% | Winning percentage |
Conference :
| CW | Wins |
| CL | Losses |
| C% | Winning percentage |
| Reg. Champs | Regular Season Championships |
| Tourn. Champs | Tournament Championships |

## Coaches

    Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
| # | Name | Season(s) | GC | W | L | W% | CW | CL | C% | Reg. Champs | Tourn. Champs | Awards |
| 1 | Pete Krebs | 1908–09 | 6 | 3 | 3 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | F. J. Pratt | 1909–10 | 7 | 2 | 5 | .286 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | J. Mitchell | 1910–11 | 8 | 3 | 5 | .375 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Alpha Brumage | 1911–1913 | 23 | 14 | 9 | .609 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | W. C. Raftery | 1913–14, 1922–34 | 180 | 68 | 112 | .378 | 18 | 61 | .228 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Frank Gorton | 1914–17 | 36 | 26 | 10 | .722 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Earl Abell | 1917–19 | 26 | 14 | 12 | .538 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Pinky Spruhan | 1919–22 | 47 | 38 | 9 | .809 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Frank Summers | 1934–36, 1947–49 | 73 | 12 | 61 | .164 | 6 | 39 | .133 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Allison Hubert | 1936–37, 1942–43 | 33 | 14 | 19 | .424 | 12 | 16 | .429 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Albert Elmore | 1937–38 | 15 | 4 | 11 | .267 | 2 | 7 | .222 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Jimmy Walker | 1938–42 | 66 | 27 | 39 | .409 | 21 | 28 | .429 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Joe Daher | 1943–45 | 26 | 2 | 24 | .077 | 1 | 9 | .100 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Jay McWilliams | 1945–46 | 11 | 1 | 10 | .091 | 1 | 6 | .143 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Lloyd Roberts | 1946–47 | 19 | 4 | 15 | .211 | 1 | 11 | .083 | — | — | — |
| 16 | Bill O'Hara | 1949–52 | 66 | 10 | 56 | .152 | 7 | 35 | .167 | — | — | — |
| 17 | Chuck Noe | 1952–55 | 68 | 24 | 46 | .343 | 11 | 30 | .268 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jack Null | 1955–58 | 70 | 12 | 58 | .171 | 5 | 36 | .122 | — | — | — |
| 19 | Weenie Miller | 1958–64 | 124 | 41 | 83 | .331 | 27 | 58 | .318 | — | 1 | — |
| 20 | Gary McPherson | 1964–69 | 109 | 32 | 77 | .294 | 25 | 50 | .333 | — | — | — |
| 21 | Mike Schuler | 1969–72 | 76 | 13 | 63 | .171 | 6 | 31 | .162 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Bill Blair | 1972–76 | 108 | 48 | 60 | .444 | 21 | 27 | .438 | — | 1 | — |
| 23 | Charlie Schmaus | 1976–82 | 165 | 75 | 90 | .455 | 27 | 51 | .346 | — | 1 | — |
| 24 | Marty Fletcher | 1982–86 | 112 | 37 | 75 | .330 | 17 | 47 | .266 | — | — | — |
| 25 | Joe Cantafio | 1986–94 | 226 | 79 | 147 | .350 | 36 | 88 | .290 | — | — | — |
| 26 | Bart Bellairs | 1994–05 | 307 | 116 | 191 | .378 | 61 | 108 | .361 | — | — | — |
| 27 | Duggar Baucom | 2005–2015 | 310 | 151 | 159 | .487 | 73 | 101 | .420 | — | — | — |
| 28 | Dan Earl | 2015–22 | 212 | 73 | 139 | .344 | 34 | 88 | .279 | — | — | — |
| 29 | Andrew Wilson | 2022– | 64 | 11 | 53 | .172 | 3 | 33 | .083 | — | — | — |