TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Vice President and Director of Athletics Tiffani-Daybreak Sykes named Patrick Crarey II the fifteenth head males’s basketball coach at Florida A&M College.
“I’m delighted to welcome Coach Crarey and his household as the most recent members of the FAMUly!” stated Sykes.
𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 Patrick Crarey II has been named the fifteenth head males's basketball coach at Florida A&M. @CoachCrarey will probably be formally launched tomorrow at 2 p.m. on Rattlers+.
https://t.co/tCtbxTLJHm#FAMU | #FAMUly | #Rattlers | #FangsUp
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— Florida A&M Males’s Basketball
(@FAMU_MBB) April 17, 2024
“I have to thank the devoted members of the search committee for his or her diligent efforts in figuring out Patrick amidst a pool of and gifted candidates. Throughout this course of, I obtained numerous emails and messages from individuals who shared that they needed a winner, and Patrick’s popularity as a winner precedes him. Hook ahead to his contemporary perspective and the management he’ll carry as we usher in a brand new period for FAMU Males’s Basketball.”“Rattler Nation, I’m humbled and elated to hitch the FAMUly as the brand new head coach of the boys’s basketball workforce on the #1 public HBCU, Florida A&M College,” stated Crarey. “I’m extraordinarily grateful to President Robinson and AD Sykes for entrusting me with the chance to guide this program. We look ahead to constructing sturdy relationships with the scholar physique, college, workers, alumni, and the Tallahassee neighborhood. Our program is poised to grow to be a perennial contender within the Southwestern Athletic Convention, and I can’t wait to get began.”
Crarey II involves Florida A&M after main St. Thomas College to a 61-27 report, two consecutive NAIA Tournaments, and three straight successful seasons within the three seasons main the Bobcats.
Crarey led the Bobcats to a 22-9, 10-4 report in 2023-24 and have been the Solar Convention Common Season Champions.
The Bobcats made it to the NAIA Match 2nd Spherical and completed the season ranked twenty first within the nation. The Bobcats’ common season success led to Crarey being named the Solar Convention Coach of the Yr. Crarey and the Bobcats noticed a league-high 5 members chosen to the All-Convention groups led by Milton Matthews, Josh Taylor, and Cearius Warren on the primary workforce, and Anthony Harris and Jordan Hernandez on the second workforce.
Matthews was additionally named to the NAIA All-American 2nd Workforce.
In 2022-23, Crarey led the Bobcats to a historic season, successful a program-high 26 wins, setting the most effective house report in program historical past (15-1), and having the very best end in program historical past ending within the NAIA Spherical of 16 appearances (as NAIA Division I member).
The veteran coach additionally set a brand new single-season program report along with his first recruiting class as Fred Mulbah turned the primary Bobcat with 200 assists and set the report at 241. Dalon Dean and Milton Matthews turned the brand new no-1 and no-2 in 3-point baskets made in a single season in 111 and 100, respectively. The duo are the one two to hit 100 in a single season. The Bobcats had three All-Convention members.
Rattler Nation! Be part of me in welcoming @CoachCrarey to @FAMU_1887 to guide @FAMU_MBB. Fangs up!
— Tiffani-Daybreak (@Tiffani_Sykes) April 17, 2024
Mulbah and Matthews additionally notched NAIA All-American Honorable Point out honors.In Carey’s first season at St. Thomas, the Bobcats led the Solar Convention with 4 All-Convention alternatives. Three gamers from the 2021-22 workforce, Augustus Stone (Taiwain), Dwayne Russel (Argentina), and Jahsim Floyd (Kosovo), all netted skilled contracts.
Crarey involves St. Thomas after a decade as the boys’s basketball coach at Washington Adventist College (MD) and because the Athletic Director at WAU.
Throughout his tenure at Washington Adventist, Carey led the Shock to a Nationwide Championship in 2014, was acknowledged because the convention coach of the yr twice (ICAA/2014, All/2017), and set this system report for wins in a single season (23/2020).
Carey additionally led the Shock to A..I Convention Championship in 2017 A number of of Carey’s former gamers have gone on to play skilled basketball in varied leagues, together with the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation – G-League, France, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Kosovo, and Bahrain.
