21 Facts About Paul Hewitt

Paul Harrington Hewitt was born on May 4,1963 and is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Georgia Institute of Technology and George Mason University.

At the Loudonville, New York, school, Paul Hewitt revived a program that had been dormant since the mid-1990s and molded it into one of the best in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and among the best in the Northeast.

In three seasons at Siena, Paul Hewitt developed one of the nation's highest scoring teams.

Paul Hewitt guided the Saints to their first outright conference regular season title in 2000.

Paul Hewitt directed the Saints to their third consecutive MAAC Championship game appearance, and second consecutive postseason berth with a bid to the NIT.

Paul Hewitt was named the twelfth head coach of the Georgia Tech men's college basketball team on April 6,2000.

Paul Hewitt received his highest accolades for guiding the Yellow Jackets to the 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in his first season.

Paul Hewitt was recognized as the ACC Coach of the Year, only the second time in league history that a first-year coach had won the award.

Paul Hewitt was named District 5 Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and was a finalist for the Naismith College Coach of the Year Award.

Tech's success led to Paul Hewitt receiving the Fritz Pollard Coach of the Year award by the Black College Coaches Association.

Paul Hewitt was listed at No 71 among the nation's 101 top minorities in sports by Sports Illustrated.

Paul Hewitt guided Jackets back to the NCAA Tournament in 2007 despite losing the team's top scorer in December.

In 2010, despite a strong reliance on four freshmen in his eight-man rotation, Paul Hewitt guided the Jackets to their fourth NCAA Tournament, winning 23 games overall.

On March 12,2011, Paul Hewitt was dismissed as the head coach of the Georgia Tech after eleven seasons with a $7.2 million buyout.

Under Paul Hewitt, Tech went to the NCAA Tournament five times, played for a national championship, played for two ACC championships, advanced to the postseason NIT quarterfinals and won the preseason NIT.

Paul Hewitt finished his Tech career third among active coaches in the ACC in games coached and fourth in career victories.

Several Tech players under Paul Hewitt have gone on to play basketball professionally, including first-round draft picks Derrick Favors, the third overall pick by New Jersey in 2010; Chris Bosh, an NBA lottery choice in 2003 and Basketball Hall of Famer in 2021; Jack, a first-round pick in 2005; Thaddeus Young and Javaris Crittenton, first-round choices in 2007; and Alvin Jones, a second-round choice in 2001.

Paul Hewitt was the head coach of the US Under-19 squad at the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.

Paul Hewitt succeeded previous head coach Jim Larranaga after Larranaga accepted a head coaching job at the University of Miami.

Paul Hewitt served as vice president of the NABC board of directors.

In September 2016, It was announced that Paul Hewitt had joined the staff of the Los Angeles Clippers as a scout.