Welcome to Coach Gene Keady's Page Keady owns a record of 543-268 (.670). Keady was named Purdue's 17th head basketball coach on April 11, 1980.
Spent 27 seasons at the helm of the Purdue and Western Kentucky programs and won 550 NCAA Division I games - with more than 800 career wins at all levels. Counting his time in junior college, high school and four stints as USA Basketball head coach, his lifetime head coaching ledger is 872-360, a .708 winning percentage. He arrived at Purdue after a two-year stint as head coach at Western Kentucky
. With seven Big Ten coach of the year and six national coach of the year awards (second-most by any coach), his record speaks for itself. He is the Big Ten's third-winningest coach all-time by percentage (.661), and is second in victories (262). Keady has led Purdue to six Big Ten championships (1984, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995 and 1996) in 24 years, including three straight outright titles from 1994 to 1996 and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances. Under Keady’s watch, the Boilermakers were successful in the classroom as well as on the basketball court. Nearly 90 percent of the seniors who stayed at Purdue for four seasons under Keady graduated. Keady also is a prominent figure in United States basketball. He was a member of coaching staff for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, helping Team USA (Dream Team) to a gold medal. Prior to that, Keady coached the U.S. entry in the 1989 World University Games to a gold medal in West Germany. Keady was the head coach of the United States for the 1991 Pan-American Games and led the team to a bronze medal. Keady earlier led a group of collegiate all-stars in the U.S. Olympic Developmental Program to second place in the 1985 Jones Cup in Taiwan. 1979 Keady guided the National Sports Festival Team to a gold medal. Overall, he has helped the United States win three gold medals, a silver and a bronze, while establishing an impressive 40-2 record (.952).
