Adam Hutchinson is in his seventh season as head basketball coach at Washington and Lee. He has notched a 55-98 record with the Generals, including a 42-38 record over the past three seasons. In 2009, Hutchinson became just the fifth coach at W&L to reach the 50-win plateau.
Hutchinson led W&L to the ODAC Championship game in 2009, becoming the first No. 8 seed to advance to the finals in the history of the tournament. W&L finished the 2008-09 season with a 16-13 overall record, marking the first time in 20 years that the Generals recorded back-to-back campaighns with a winning record.
Hutchinson was named the 2008 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after guiding W&L to a 15-11 overall record, its best mark in nearly two decades. The Generals also went 11-7 in conference play and earned the fifth seed for the ODAC Tournament. Hutchinson also helped mentor Greg Bienemann '08 to First Team All-ODAC honors for the second-straight season.
W&L's 2007-08 campaign followed an 11-14 record in 2006-07. The 11 wins were a seven-game improvement from the season before and helped to elevate the Generals' program into a winner.
Hutchinson came to Washington and Lee after spending two seasons as the head coach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In those two seasons, he led the Spartans to a 14-35 overall record while rebuilding the program. His initial recruiting class included eight players, most notably Carson Oren, the 2003 University Athletic Association Rookie of the Year.
Prior to CWRU, Hutchinson was the head coach at Stevens Institute of Technology from 1999-01, compiling a 19-31 overall mark. His second season resulted in a 12-13 overall record, a five-game improvement over his first campaign.
Hutchinson began his collegiate coaching career in 1994 as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Amherst College. In his two seasons with the Lord Jeffs, he was responsible for recruiting the school's second all-time leading scorer in All-American Jamal Wilson and helping lead the team to the NCAA Division III Elite Eight.
In 1996, Hutchinson assumed the role of player and coach with the Cardiff Clippers of the English National Basketball League before spending the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons as an assistant coach at Emory University.
Originally a walk-on player at Amherst, Hutchinson started two seasons at guard in leading the Lord Jeffs to the ECAC Tournament each year. He was named team captain as a senior.
Hutchinson graduated from Amherst in 1993 with a
bachelor of arts in African-American studies and earned his master
of science in sport management from the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst in 1997. He and his wife, Erin, have two
sons, Jason and Donald.
Caleb Kimbrough is in his first year as an assistant men’s
basketball coach at Washington and Lee.
Kimbrough spent the previous year playing against the Harlem
Globetrotters as a member of the Washington Generals.
A 2008 graduate of Guilford College with a bachelor of science,
Kimbrough was a four-year member of the both the Quaker basketball
and tennis teams, three times earning all-league recognition in
tennis.
On the hardwood, he was a two-year captain and was an Honorable
Mention All-ODAC honoree as a senior, helping to lead the Quakers
to a 24-5 overall record, the ODAC Championship and an appearance
in the NCAA Tournament.
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