Robert Clifford Ellis is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at Coastal Carolina University. Going into the 20152016 season, Coach Elliss 692 NCAA Division I victories rank him 20th on the list of alltime career coaching victories in Division I basketball. With a victory over UNC Asheville on Feb. 3, 2015, Eliis became the only coach in NCAA Division I history to tally 150plus wins at four institutions. He was national coach of the year in 1999 at Auburn, when his Tigers wongames and captured the schools first SEC championship inyears. In 1990 he coached Clemson to its only ACC regularseason firstplace finish. His South Alabama teams won Sun Belt Conference regularseason championships in 1979, 1980 and 1981. At both Clemson and South Alabama he holds school records for coaching victories and he is the secondwinningest coach in Auburn history.
Ellis was born in Marianna, Florida. He graduated from Florida State University in 1968 with a bachelors degree in physical education and has a masters degree in the same subject from Middle Tennessee State University.
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