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James Hickey

1959-1966North Carolina

One defining stop at North Carolina.

James Hickey coached 8 seasons, won 44.4%, and posted an average SRS of 3.0. Best season: 1963 North Carolina. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stop defined the run.

Career record
36-45
Career win rate
44.4%
Average SRS
3.0
Peak SRS
10.7

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
8
Career span
8 years
Best finish
Consistency
72.4

Primary school anchor

North Carolina

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 63.6.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

James Hickey
EliteStrongAverageLean
1959Actual season year • SRS range -4.7 to 10.71966

Active comparison point

James Hickey1963

Selected

1963 North Carolina

Best seasonBiggest improvement

9-2 • SRS 10.7 • SP Overall

Win %

81.8%

YoY SRS

+11.9

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Tenure map

Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger tenure

North Carolina

1959-19668 seasons

Avg SRS 3.0 • Win % 44.4%

Longest tenure
North Carolina • 8 seasons
Best tenure
North Carolina • 3.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
North Carolina • 44.4%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

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Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

James Hickey

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.

North Carolina

1959-196636-45

Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 3.0Win % 44.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.5 during vs 4.2 baseline

+0.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

3.0 during vs 3.2 baseline

-0.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

North Carolina 1963

9-2SRS 10.7

Biggest Improvement

North Carolina 1963

9-211.9 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

North Carolina 1960

3-7SRS -4.7

Biggest Drop

North Carolina 1960

3-7-10.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

North Carolina19661028020.0%-3.4-6.4-20.0%
North Carolina19651046040.0%3.0-4.1-10.0%
North Carolina19641055050.0%7.1-3.6-31.8%
North Carolina19631192081.8%10.7+11.9+51.8%
North Carolina19621037030.0%-1.2-7.6-20.0%
North Carolina19611055050.0%6.4+11.1+20.0%
North Carolina19601037030.0%-4.7-10.8-20.0%
North Carolina19591055050.0%#126.1

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