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Keith Jennings
Personal information
Born	November 2, 1968 (age 56); Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.
Listed height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Listed weight	160 lb (73 kg)
Career information
High school	Culpeper County; (Culpeper County, Virginia)
College	East Tennessee State (1987–1991)
NBA draft	1991: undrafted
Playing career	1991–2004
Position	Point guard
Number	2
Coaching career	2004–present
Career history
As player:
1991	Jacksonville Hooters
1991–1992	Brandt Hagen
1992–1995	Golden State Warriors
1995–1996	Estudiantes
1997–1999	Le Mans
1999	Real Madrid
1999–2000	Fenerbahçe
2000	Saint Petersburg Lions
2000–2002	Strasbourg
2002–2003	SLUC Nancy
2003–2004	Strasbourg
As coach:
2004–2007	Highland School
2007–2008	East Tennessee State (GA)
2008–2009	Science Hill HS (assistant)
2009–2014	Bluefield (assistant)
2014–2017	Lees–McRae (assistant)
2017–present	Lees–McRae (women's)
Career highlights and awards
	French League Foreign MVP (1999); French League Best Scorer (1999); Consensus second-team All-American (1991); Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (1991); 2× SoCon Player of the Year (1990, 1991);
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball Reference

Keith Russell "Mister" Jennings (born November 2, 1968) is an American basketball coach, who formerly played professional in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas in European leagues.^[1]

College career

Jennings, a 5'7" (1.70 m) tall point guard, attended East Tennessee State University, for four academic years (1987–91). Jennings won the 1991 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, given to the outstanding collegiate senior six feet tall and under, and was a second-team consensus All-American. He also led the NCAA Division I that year in three-point field goals, shooting 59 percent.^[2]

It was in college that Jennings was primarily called by the nickname "Mister", which was originally given to him by his father during his childhood.^[3]

Professional playing career

Jennings was not selected in the 1991 NBA draft, and started his NBA career as a free agent. He spent three seasons in the NBA, with the Golden State Warriors (1992–95), playing in 164 games, and averaging 6.6 points and 3.7 assists in 18.0 minutes per game. Jennings's personal best in the NBA was a 23-point performance, in his next-to-last regular season game with the Warriors, on April 22, 1995. In that game, Jennings made 8 of 10 field goals, including 3 of 4 three-pointers, and was perfect in 4 free-throw attempts in 41 minutes.^[4] He dished off 10 assists that game to cap off his best performance in the NBA. He was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 expansion draft, but did not play for them. He also played professionally in Europe. In 2003–04 he parlayed his experience on the court to help the basketball club in Strasbourg, France.

Coaching career

From 2004 to 2007, Jennings was the head coach of the boys' varsity basketball team at the private Highland School in Warrenton, Virginia.^[2] Jennings joined the staff at his alma mater, East Tennessee State, as a graduate assistant coach for the 2007–08 season while he completed his degree.^[2] After a year as an assistant coach at Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, Jennings was assistant coach at Bluefield College in Bluefield, Virginia from 2009 to 2014.^[5] In 2014, he became assistant coach at Lees–McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina.^[6]