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Jeremy Cox, a proven winner as a Division I assistant and as a head coach in the NJCAA ranks, will be in his second season as an assistant coach with the University of South Florida basketball team in 2010-11.

In his first year in Tampa, Cox assisted the Bulls to USF's third 20-win season ever with a 20-13 record, and helped USF to the postseason for the first time since 2002, as the Bulls hosted NC State in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. The Bulls also earned their first win in the BIG EAST Championship and registered the school's best regular season BIG EAST record with nine wins, more than doubling the previous season's four.

Cox, who came to the Bay Area with eight NBA products to his credit, added two more products in 2010 with Dominique Jones and Patrick Patterson. 

USF's Jones was selected in the first round of the NBA Draft and is now playing for the Dallas Mavericks. Jones was an AP All-American (HM) and the 2010 BIG EAST Scoring Champion as a junior for the USF Bulls. Patterson was one of five Kentucky Wildcats to be selected in the first round of the 2010 Draft. He was the 10th fastest player to reach the 1,000-point club at UK, was an AP HM All-American, a USBWA All-District IV player and a two-time All-SEC First Team pick.

Cox came to USF after helping the Kentucky Wildcats to the NCAA tournament in 2008 and the NIT quarterfinals in 2009. In his two seasons as an assistant coach at Kentucky, the Wildcats posted 40 overall wins and a 12-4 conference record in 2007-08. That same season the Wildcats earned their 17th-straight berth into the NCAA tournament.

In 2007, Cox was added to the Kentucky staff after serving under Billy Gillispie as an assistant coach at Texas A&M in 2006-07, where he helped lead the Aggies to a spot in the Sweet 16 and a school-best final ranking of ninth in both the Associated Press and Coaches' polls.

Prior to his time in College Station, he was the head coach at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith for three seasons, guiding the Lions to the 2006 National Junior College Championship while also being named the NJCAA National Coach of the Year.

He led the Lions to an 85-15 record, three consecutive 20-win seasons and two Bi-State Conference East Division Championships.

In the 2006 season, UA-FS was the unanimous preseason No. 1-ranked team in the nation for the first time in recent history and won its first NJCAA Region II championship since 2002 and its first national championship since 1981.

After a year as an assistant at the UA-FS in 2002-03, Cox was promoted to head coach the next season.

Cox arrived in Fort Smith after serving four years (1998-99 through 2001-02) as head coach at Garden City College (Kan.), where his teams amassed a 93-36 slate (.721 winning percentage).

He got his first head coaching position at North Dakota State College of Science, where he led his team in 1997-98 to a 19-9 record and the NJCAA Region XIII Championship. He was tagged 1998 NJCAA Region XIII Coach of the Year for his efforts.

In eight years as a head coach, Cox's teams have compiled a 197-63 record.

Before his years as a head coach, Cox spent time as an assistant at Paris College (Texas) in 1992-93, and later was as an assistant at the University of Texas-San Antonio for four seasons (1993-97).

He got his coaching start as a graduate assistant at the University of Wyoming during the 1991-92 season under head coach Benny Dees.

Cox also served as the court coach for the USA Basketball Under-21 World Championships team in 2005.

Cox graduated cum laude in 1991 from Mesa State College (Colo.) and received his master's degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy (Ala.) in 1999.

He and his wife, Cindy, have a son, Austin, and a daughter Kaili.