Please answer the following question: Facts: - sport: basketball - coach team: sweet erie cc buffalo alabama -lrb- asst. -rrb- chattanooga -lrb- asst. home -rrb- hs -lrb- asst. -rrb- sweet home hs - coach years: 1984 1999 -- 2013 2014 -- 2015 2015-present -- 1992 1992 -- 1997 1997 -- 1999 - birth date: 21 february 1961 - name: reggie witherspoon - image: reggie_witherspoon . jpg - birth place: buffalo , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of reggie witherspoon -lrb- basketball -rrb- .
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phillip reginald '' reggie '' witherspoon -lrb- born february 21 , 1961 -rrb- is the former head coach of the university at buffalo men 's college basketball team .he was fired after the 2012-13 season .he was the head coach at erie community college , and head coach and assistant coach at sweet home high school before he was hired as the interim head coach at buffalo in december 1999 .witherspoon was named full-time head coach in march 10 , 2000 .he was the first african american named head coach of a varsity sports team in any western new york suburban school district .witherspoon served one season as an assistant at alabama under head coach anthony grant .in 2015 , witherspoon was let go by alabama when grant was replaced by avery johnson .he was subsequently named as an assistant on matt mccall 's staff at ut-chattanooga .