caption player_team coach_years current_team birth_place player_positions player_years coach_team current_title sport birth_date current_record image article_title name
smith in 2012 . hamilton 1992 2010 -- present -- 2000 2000 -- 2001 2001 -- 2010 columbia el paso , texas point guard 1988 -- 1992 san -rrb- saint mary 's -lrb- asst. -rrb- columbia diego -lrb- asst. -rrb- air force -lrb- asst. head coach basketball 15 june 1969 76-72 kyle smith in 2012.jpg kyle smith -lrb- basketball -rrb-
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kyle smith -lrb- basketball -rrb-

kyle andrew smith -lrb- born june 15 , 1969 -rrb- is an american college basketball coach and the current men 's basketball head coach at columbia university .
prior to joining the lions , smith was associate head coach at saint mary 's , where he was responsible for running the offense and heading up the recruiting activities .
in his final season at saint mary 's smith helped guide the gaels to two wins in the ncaa tournament and an appearance in the sweet 16 .
upon his hire by columbia , st. mary 's head coach randy bennett commented `` he will be very successful , he has been a huge part of what we 've done st. mary 's .
it 's been he and i together -- it 's been like having a co-coach . ''
smith was a member of new york 's hamilton college men 's basketball team that achieved a 26 -- 1 record his junior season and achieved the national division iii # 1 ranking .
additionally , university of richmond head men 's basketball coach chris mooney referred to smith as `` the smartest man in college basketball .
i think he has the best feel and overview of basketball programs and coaching of anyone i 've ever met . ''
in his first season at columbia , smith piloted the lions to a 15-13 record , becoming the first new columbia head coach in 33 years to notch a winning season in his inaugural campaign .
smith backed up his offensive reputation with sterling numbers on that side of the ball in year one in morningside heights ; the lions scored more than 10 points per game more in 2010-11 than they did the year before and scored more than 70 points 15 times during the entire season .
smith followed up his impressive first season with 15 more wins in 2011-12 , becoming the first columbia basketball coach to record as many as 30 wins in his first two seasons since lou rossini in 1950-52 .
under smith 's tutelage , columbia 's guards have developed into some of the more dynamic playmakers in the ivy league .
columbia starting point guard brian barbour was voted first team all-ivy league , the second straight year a columbia guard was given this honor -lrb- noruwa agho , 2010 -- 11 -rrb- .
in charge of one of the fastest rising programs in the ivy league , smith steered columbia to an rpi of 186 in both 2010-11 and 2011 -- 12 , the highest finish in the program 's history .
smith and his wife , katie , have three sons , rocco , bo and luke .
they live in the morningside heights area of new york city .
