Duggar Baucom

Robert Franklin "Duggar" Baucom (born September 21, 1960) is an American college basketball coach, most recently the head men's basketball coach at The Citadel.

Baucom was born on September 21, 1960, and grew up around Charlotte, North Carolina.

He attended North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville where he played basketball.

Following graduation, Baucom took a career in law enforcement and worked as a policeman and North Carolina state trooper.

Two players were found guilty of committing honor violations and promptly expelled from the school, leaving VMI with no players taller than 6 ft. To counter this, Baucom installed a fast-pace, high-scoring offense that was a mixture of the 1980s Loyola Marymount teams and Grinnell College, among others.

Dubbed the "sprint and strike" and "loot and shoot", by the end of the year, VMI set NCAA records for three-pointers attempted (1,338), three-pointers made (442) and steals (450) that still stand today.

The Keydets averaged over 101 points per game and shattered 75 school records.

The method proved to increase success as well, as the Keydets went 14–19, the most wins in a season in nine years, and made an upset run through the Big South tournament, defeating Liberty and High Point.

They ultimately fell to a 29–5 Winthrop team that went undefeated in conference play by a score of 83–80.

The following year, VMI went 14–15 and lost in the conference quarterfinals, which marked the end of forward Reggie Williams' career.

Williams led the NCAA in scoring that year and the year prior, and ended his VMI career as the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,556 points.

He was initially assigned to North Mecklenburg as a school resource officer in 1987, and also coached the school's junior varsity basketball team.

After four years, he was promoted to varsity head coach.

Baucom's career in law enforcement was short-lived.

On Christmas Day of 1990, Baucom had a heart attack, which was discovered to be a case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease in which heart muscle thickens for no apparent reason.

Narrowly avoiding death, Baucom was forced to pursue a low-stress occupation.

He enrolled at UNC Charlotte where he earned a B.A. in history and graduated in 1995.

Following his time at North Mecklenburg, Baucom first joined the collegiate ranks in 1995 as an assistant to the Davidson Wildcats.

In his lone year at Davidson, the Wildcats went 25–5, 14–0 in the Southern Conference, and won the league's regular season championship while participating in the National Invitation Tournament.

After spending two seasons as an assistant at Division II Mars Hill, where he was a scout and recruiting coordinator, Baucom served the same role for one year at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Baucom then returned to the Southern Conference where he worked three seasons under head coach Steve Shurina at Western Carolina.

His first head coaching job came in 2003 when he was hired by Tusculum College in the Tennessee town of the same name.

Baucom immediately made an impression; his first year in 2003–04, he led the Pioneers to a 19–8 season en route to a South Atlantic Conference championship.

For this, Baucom was named the SAC Coach of the Year.

The next season produced similar results, and Tusculum advanced to the regional quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

The team led their conference in scoring, field goal percentage, free-throw percentage, three-pointers made per game, and assists per game.

Baucom was then hired in the summer of 2005 by the Virginia Military Institute and athletic director Donny White.

The first VMI team under Baucom performed poorly.

The Keydets went 7–20 and 2–14 in the Big South Conference, failing to qualify for the league tournament.

In addition to the struggles on the court, Baucom's heart problems returned, as his previously installed pacemaker had calcified, rendering it difficult to remove and leading to infections and clotting.

It was ultimately replaced with a defibrillator, but Baucom would end up missing twelve games on the season during four months of procedures.

Shortly before the start of the 2006–07 season, the team's troubles continued.

Despite the loss of Williams, 2008–09 was the most successful year in Baucom's tenure.

In the first game of the season, the Keydets upset the Kentucky Wildcats in Rupp Arena, 111–103.

Led by senior twins Chavis and Travis Holmes, the new system was starting to pay dividends, and after a 4–2 start following a 28-point loss at Jacksonville State, VMI reeled off ten straight wins to go 14–2 and 6–0 in league play.

The streak was broken at home by Liberty in the first and currently only sellout in Cameron Hall history with 5,029 fans in attendance.

Baucom was hired as the Citadel's head coach following the 2014–15 season.

He was previously the head coach at Virginia Military Institute.

He's also served a coach at Tusculum, Davidson, Western Carolina and Northwestern State.

At the conclusion of the 2017–18 season, Baucom's career record is 184–223 in Division I and 37–19 in Division II.