Brookville, NY – UMBC Head Men’s Basketball Coach Jim Ferry and his 2010-2011 Long Island University team will be inducted into the LIU Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, September 20th.
The induction ceremony and dinner will be at the LIU Post campus Friday, September 20, at the Tilles Center Atrium starting at 7:00 p.m. and tickets can be purchased here.
Ferry’s 2010-11 team completed their season with a 27-6 record and an NEC championship. LIU Brooklyn (now LIU) fought off Robert Morris in a thrilling Northeast Conference title game, winning in overtime and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. They played the No. 2-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels in their opening round of play, with head coach Ferry guiding the program to one of the most memorable seasons in LIU’s history. The 27 wins were just one shy of a program record set in 1936-37 under legendary Naismith Hall of Fame Head Coach Clair Bee.
Ferry spent 10 seasons as head coach at LIU Brooklyn, guiding the program to unprecedented levels of success. Ferry led the Blackbirds to Northeast Conference regular-season titles and tournament championships in 2011 and 2012, including their first NCAA Championship appearance in 14 years.
Ferry engineered a turnaround at LIU Brooklyn, inheriting a team that had won only five games in the season before his arrival. He transformed the program into a winner, posting back-to-back campaigns of at least 25 wins for the first time since the 1941-42 season. The program’s 2011 and 2012 NEC crowns were the first back-to-back league titles in LIU Brooklyn’s history, and Ferry helped position the Blackbirds for a third-straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2013.
At LIU Brooklyn, Ferry and his team achieved double-digit win totals eight times, and he was selected the NEC Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2011. Recognition came also from the National Association of Basketball Coaches as he was tabbed the District 18 Coach of the Year and the NIT/Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Peter A. Carlesimo Division I Coach of the Year in 2011.
With his offensive-minded approach, Ferry produced some of the nation’s top-scoring squads. LIU Brooklyn was the fourth-highest scoring team in the country in 2011 and his 2012 team ranked second, scoring at a clip of 81.4 points per game.
Current UMBC Assistant Coach Danny Lawson was also a member of Coach Ferry’s staff during that historic season.
