DAVID GLENN SHOW || Jeff Capel III #Hail2Pitt #Duke #ACC #Fayetteville #SouthView

Jeff Capel enters his sixth season at the University of Pittsburgh after being announced as the 16th men’s basketball head coach in program history March 28, 2018. Capel owns a 237-191 record as a head coach at Pitt (2018-present), Oklahoma (2006-11), and VCU (2002-06) with four NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight trip with Oklahoma in 2008. He has been instrumental in the development of 18 first-round picks in the NBA Draft during his coaching tenure, including 10 lottery picks. Capel has also recruited 23 McDonald’s All-America selections and helped build six top-10 recruiting classes. Capel began his coaching career as an assistant to his father, Jeff Capel, at Old Dominion for the 2000-01 season. His father had a distinguished coaching career in the NBA with the Charlotte Bobcats (2004-11) and Philadelphia 76ers (2011-13), as well as in the college ranks at Wake Forest (1986-89), Fayetteville State (1989-93), North Carolina A&T (1993-94) and Old Dominion (1994-2001). Following his collegiate career at Duke, Capel played professionally for two years. He spent the 1997-98 season with the CBA’s Grand Rapids Hoops. In 1999-00, he played in France before returning to Grand Rapids. Capel served as a team captain in both 1996 and 1997 and earned third team All-ACC accolades as a junior in 1996. He made an immediate impact at Duke and was a four-year starter for the Blue Devils, leading the team to 83 wins and a trip to the 1994 national championship game. He racked up 1,601 points, 433 assists and 220 three-point field goals, finishing among Duke’s career leaders in minutes played, three-point field goals made, three-point field goal percentage and assists. A standout prep performer, Capel was named the 1993 North Carolina High School Player of the Year after leading Fayetteville South View to a 31-1 record and a state championship. Capel graduated from Duke with a B.A. in history in 1997. He and his wife, Kanika, married in 2003. They have two daughters, Cameron and Sydney, and a son, Elijah.