Winningest men’s basketball coach in Florida Tech history, Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame, 2-time BBL Coach of the Year, NBA Studio Analyst at Sky Sports TV
Check out my daughter
@MimsCourtney
doing her thing at the John Calipari Arkansas press conference yesterday on SEC Network!! She hit him with this great question!! 👏🏻🤩
@SECNetwork
should think about adding Courtney Mims to their team 🤔
My daughter
@MimsCourtney
doing her thing in Fayetteville, Arkansas covering all things Razorbacks! If you’re not already following her, you should jump on her bandwagon. She’s a great storyteller and some of her features are true sports gems.
We had a chance to catch up with UA Hall of Honor inductee Houston Nutt after the premiere of the
@HogsPlus
documentary "Resurgence" last night.
#WPS
Hear what he had to say about being inducted right here from our
@MimsCourtney
:
This was us 25 years ago today. Thankful
@MimsLynne
said yes that night in London Arena, live on Sky Sports TV, and cherish all the memories from the life we’ve shared. Happy Silver Anniversary to my best friend, and thanks for the 25 best years of my life! Here’s to us 🍾🥂😘
What do you run end of clock?
Here is a typical high ball screen with an added Hammer screen action. The speed and timing is what can help it work.
Check out more Hammer screen actions here
Shows how valuable
@SesRussell99
is to our program and the type of servant leader he is!! I don’t know another player in the country of his caliber who would do something like this. Sesan also finished the regular season
#1
in the nation for assists per game!! 👏🏻🤩
#unselfish
Brixton is the home of basketball in London and again this weekend, a lot of the young talent in England will be on display. If you’re a hoops fan and in the Capitol this weekend, you gotta get over there. Thanks Sam Neter for all you do for young ballers and the British game!
Love this new floor and it’s message highlighting our history and close ties to NASA, the space program, and the Space Coast!😃 Can’t wait for this November when a few of our
@FloridaTechMBB
players will take flight on this beautiful new floor!! 3-2-1 LIFTOFF 🚀 🏀😎
So blessed to have spent the past 23 years with this beautiful woman! Enjoyed celebrating it all tonight in style with my best friend 😊 Happy Anniversary
@MimsLynne
❤️
Robert Youngblood, affectionately known as “Blood” by his teammates, was truly one of the finest in the BBL. He was a true warrior on court and passionate about every play and every game that he ever played! I was the coach who brought Robert to the BBL and honored to his friend.
ROBERT YOUNGBLOOD
20 Seasons in the
@BBLofficial
1x ALL BBL
1x Playoff Title
3x League Titles
3x Cup Titles
6th All time in rebounding 3088
6th All time in blocks 353
10th All time in points scored 5943
5th in efficiency points 7394
@BelowThePod
@BBLDaily
#BBLLegends
Wow, after 363 days since our last SSC game, we’re FINALLY back on court for a game today! Bound to be a little rusty, but so excited to see this group get a chance to go up against another team.
#panthers4life
#PantherPride
#GoPanthers
Honored to be invited over to the Emerald Isle next week to talk basketball with coaches and players around the country, and looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. It’s been far too long since I’ve been. Thanks to
@BballIrl
for making this possible. 🏀☘️👏🏻
We’re excited to welcome a long time friend of the club
@CoachBillyMims
to Oatlands next Friday the 23rd of June (7.30-9.30pm) for what should be a fantastic clinic with a top coach.
Details including how to book a spot are available via
@BballIrl
Excited to see Niall Harris in a Panther uniform. Playing alongside Sesan Russell again, at times Florida Tech just might have the only all English backcourt in the NCAA!! 👏🏻🏀😎
Very pleased with our defensive effort throughout tonight! We took a team averaging 84ppg and held them to 60, their lowest output of the season. We took a team shooting 41% from 3 and held them to 28% (7-25 shooting). Defense does win games! Take pride in getting stops!! 🏀👏🏻😎
So excited to welcome
@darragh_sull11
to our
@FloridaTechMBB
team! He’s an athletic shooter with a high basketball IQ and great leadership abilities. And believe it or not, I coached his father professionally. My 1st ‘Sully’ tells me that this Sully is an even better shooter 😃
So happy to be able to welcome
@CharnwoodBball
to
@FloridaTech
and introduce them to our beautiful campus and Melbourne, Florida. 🏖️😎 Hope it was a great start to their educational trip to 🇺🇸
Landed in Athens this morning and look who was at the airport to meet me!!! So great to be able to see and catch up with Antonis Pefanis, a former 4 year
@FloridaTechMBB
player now playing professionally back in his home country of Greece 🇬🇷🏀👏🏻😎
@FT_Athletics
@FloridaTech
Florida reigns as retirement capitol of the world. Tonight in Tampa a 68 year old coach, a 43 year old QB, and a tight end who came out of retirement won the Super Bowl!!! People don’t just move to Florida to retire, they move here to keep living life!!! 🏝😎
#thefountainofyouth
Happy Birthday
@MimsCourtney
🎂🎁🎉💕 24 years ago I had an amazing feeling for the 1st time in my life. I became a dad. There are no words to truly describe that feeling. Thanks for 24 years of great memories, and I can’t wait to see what your bright future holds for you. 😎❤️
Honored to have coached this special group of young men who came together for an historic run to bring the first silverware to some of the finest fans in the BBL. Hard to believe that next year will be the 20th anniversary of that fairytale season. 🇬🇧🏀🏆 👏🏻
Can’t beat getting a world class education while living in a paradise like
@FloridaTech
So blessed to have spent the last 15 seasons here in charge of
@FloridaTechMBB
Hope to continue witnessing sunsets like this with
@FT_Athletics
for many more years. 🏀👏🏻😎
Pleased to win my 300th collegiate game at
@FloridaTech
with
@FloridaTechMBB
such a great group of players, assistants, and administration! Thanks to all the people (players, coaches, administrators, trainers, staff, and fans) who’ve helped to make every single win possible.
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ and counting!
Congrats to
@CoachBillyMims
on your 300th collegiate victory! He hit the milestone during the Panthers’ recent win over Eckerd!
Clearly a coach who was not happy about his team’s performance. We’ve all been there at some point before. When the students return will also make a big difference. A loud and packed Bud Walton Arena is worth 10-15 points. Don’t believe me, just ask Duke!
#seehowtheyrespond
John White and Eric Burks were a great backcourt, maybe one of the best in BBL history. And Robert Youngblood was an interior warrior for that team. What a fun team to coach, back to back BBL Champions 1997 and 1998. 2 seasons I’ll never forget!
One of my favorite players that I ever coached, KB was a warrior! Playing for my Leopards team in London, Karl became one of the BBL’s top scorers. In Leicester, his veteran leadership helped lead us to the 1st two trophies in club history! One of 🇬🇧🏀 finest!! 👏🏻
🗣Karl Brown talks about his
@GTMBB
side defeating LSU to book a spot in the 1990 Sweet 16 (on his way to becoming first Englishman to make the Final 4), as he played a pivotal role defensively, holding Chris Jackson to 5/15 shooting & fouling him out. 🇬🇧🏀
#BritishBasketball
Fantastic athletic programs there at Male High School because
@TimHaworth13
is the best high school basketball coach in the Bluegrass State too!! Great programs run by great coaches who are definitely great people. Honored to call Coach Haworth a true friend. 👏🏻🤩
Congrats to
@LMHSCoachWolfe
and the Male High Football Team on our victory vs Manual. Best football coach in the state but more importantly to me an awesome friend.
@MaleBulldogs
@MaleHighBBall
Hope you can tell by this little clip just how excited I am to be back in Ireland talking basketball and building friendships 🇮🇪🏀🇺🇸 Thanks to
@BballIrl
for the invitation. I love talking
@FloridaTechMBB
and being a global ambassador for
@FloridaTech
so see you in Ireland 🍀
We are excited to welcome
@CoachBillyMims
for coaching clinics in Belfast, Dublin and Limerick over the next week👌
🎟️Make sure you're there - log onto our online learning platform 'Helpside' to buy your tickets➡️
🏀Find out more about the clinics here
Very pleased to see
@SesRussell99
named the SSC Player of the Week! Well deserved and long overdue. He also leads the league in scoring right now at just over 21ppg, and is in the SSC top 10 in several other categories as well!! 🏀🤩😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Throwback Thursday looking back at the STRONGEST power forward I ever coached! Loved having World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Lennox Lewis join my Leopards for practice one day in London. He was a great guy and true champ. 🏀 🥊 😊
Thanksgiving sunset on our boat on the beautiful Indian River with all the family. So much to be thankful for, and it truly doesn’t get much better than this. 😎🦃🍽🍁
#BeThankful
Just wanted to wish this lady a Happy Birthday today! She’s definitely the ‘Head Coach’ at home, but she’s also my best friend. Happy Birthday Lynne 🥂🎂🎁 Hope you’ve enjoyed it, and I look forward to spending many more with you 😘
What a day that was, so many wonderful memories. Ralph Blalock, Larry Johnson, Purnell Perry, Malcolm Leak, Billy Singleton, and Karl Brown were amazing on the day, and my daughter
@callie_mims
was a definite starlet with the media! A day, a game, and a moment I’ll never forget.
Back in the lab with
@FloridaTechMBB
this week and we have one more day on court tomorrow before a well deserved weekend off. Effort and attitude has been great with this group. Coaching them is the highlight of my day!
#embracetheprocess
#attitudeiseverything
#AIE
Work was never so much fun! On the road recruiting at the Florida State Junior College Tournament today and look who I run into -
@MimsCourtney
covering Gulf Coast State for
@WMBBTV
😎
#prouddad
Jimmy Rogers, a true legend in London basketball circles, and a developer of so much British talent who came through his Topcats program. Well deserved recognition for all he’s done for the game and a life truly worth celebrating. 👏🏻 Thanks Jimmy for being my friend. 🙏🏻
My daughter
@callie_mims
made my day yesterday! She drove down from UF to see our opening SSC game at Saint Leo University. Sorry we couldn’t win the game for her, but she’ll always be my good luck charm. Thanks Cal 🥰
#veryprouddad
Big game tonight for Josh Mims topscoring for his Mel High team with 17 points at OCP on a very efficient 6-7 shooting night, nailing 5-6 threes! After 8 games, Josh is 18-33 from three (55%) and leading his team. 👏🏻
@gbbasketball
@bballengland
@321sportscast
@Hoopsfix
@DengCamp
@bballengland
Happy to assist in any way that I can too as one of the few coaches who’s had experience both coaching/living in the UK and now here as an NCAA coach in the USA. There are so many people who don’t really understand the opportunities, a lot of false rumors, and bad advice.
Happy 18th Birthday to
@joshwmims
🎂🎁🎉 Enjoyed celebrating with family yesterday for a birthday meal at Rainforest Cafe and the NBA opening Heat v Magic game at Amway Arena! 😍 Hope 18 was his best yet!!
Great to see 3 of my former BBL pro 🏀 players getting together after 25+ years! Blessed to have coached Ronnie Baker, Henri Abrams, and Abi Osu at the London Leopards. All 3 helped me build a BBL Championship program. So proud of all they have achieved in their lives. 👏🏻😎
Community service is always rewarding but even more special when a young fan shows up to get autographs from the
@FloridaTechMBB
team. It’s summertime but we’re still out in our community teaching hoops, making friends, and growing our fan base!! 🏀👏🏻😃
@FT_Athletics
@FloridaTech
Double Overtime Classic
@D2SSC
Thriller!!! 🏀👏🏻😃 One of the finest games I’ve been a part of in my 4 decades on the sidelines! So proud of our team and their ‘never give up’ mentality. We had to find a way to gut it out and they did. “Survive and Advance!!” Now exhausted 😴 😂
The
@FloridaTechMBB
team were up bright and early this morning in the VTC with Coach Carl. The journey to being a stronger healthier team this season began this morning. Great group of young men and I’m excited to start working with them!
#GoPanthers
🏀👏🏻😎
Some good international publicity for
@FloridaTech
and
@FloridaTechMBB
today across the pond in London, England at halftime of the Hoopsfix All-Star Classic as men’s basketball signee 6’8
@_SamGrant11
is interviewed by Mark Jarram.
#HASC21
Welcome Sam to our Panther family 👏🏻🏀😎
As our Clemente Center floor renovation continues, the old court is almost completely sanded away. Can’t wait to see the new masterpiece when it’s done! 😃
Day 4 of our court renovation. A little sad as you see the old artwork stripped away. We won a lot of big games on that court design and a lot of very good players ran up and down it. Hopefully, the newly designed floor will be just as exciting and entertaining for our fans! 🏀😎
Highlights of a fantastic BBL matchup from the 90’s with some of the all-time great BBL players in it, and the amazing commentary of
@mikeshaft
a BBL legend in his own right!! Enjoy some of the best of 🇬🇧🏀 👏🏻 So blessed to have been a part of that era
Great getting back on court with
@FloridaTechMBB
for the first time today since early last March!! Solid returners and talented newcomers mixing well for what should be an exciting
@FloridaTech
2023-24 basketball season.
#GoPanthers
#Techbuilt
Had a blast reminiscing about my time coaching in the BBL. Some great memories of some very happy times. Thanks Mark for inviting me on your podcast and for all you do for the game in the UK. 🇬🇧🏀👏🏻
In the latest edition of the MVP Cast, we chat to former Leicester Riders and London Leopards boss
@CoachBillyMims
about British basketball’s Showtime Era and the friendships and rivalries he shared
Definitely another first in my long career on the court! Honored to have the opportunity to coach two fine young men this season,
@sean_houpt
and
@darragh_sull11
after coaching both their fathers years ago. Their dads helped me win a title or two. Hopefully they will as well.
Even team pics are
#MaskUp
😷in 2020! Hope it’s not the “new normal” but Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🏻 and Happy Holidays from the Florida Tech Panthers!! Let’s all hope 2021 is a much Happier New Year ahead 🏀👏🏻😎
One of the happiest and most successful days of my coaching career! That group of young men believed they could do what no one else thought them capable of. So honored to have coached that team and brought the amazing fans in Leicester their first ever major trophy.
#Believe
📅 OTD: The Riders won their first piece of British Basketball League silverware, beating the London Leopards 84-82 to win the 2001 NTL National Cup Final! 🏆
Here, we take you through the historic win...
In case you wonder what I do before the game
@FloridaTech
and no one sees me. I’m probably in the locker room putting up the scouting report to prepare our
@FloridaTechMBB
for their opponent. Nice handwriting! Guess I’d have made a pretty good teacher too. 😊
Sad to see
@BBLofficial
clubs and the professional players who try to earn a living through the sport still in so much uncertainty about the coming season. These clubs are so important to their communities and the young people who benefit from their community outreach.
When will basketball return? How
@CheshireNix
and the rest of the British Basketball League are hoping for Government support to get them through the new season.
Clemente Center Court renovations are well underway now! Took a while to sand it down to bare wood, then the artwork stencils came out, then basic lines were taped down and the staining will begin soon. If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m excited to watch this process!! 😃
No holiday break for the
@FloridaTechMBB
team! We were up early and lifting in the Varsity Training Center with Strength Coach Carl Putman this morning. Turkey 🦃 Day won’t slow our preparation down!!
Excited to be heading back to Greece this week and can’t wait to see all my friends in Heraklion, Crete! The hospitality there is amazing, the scenery breathtaking, and the players enthusiastic to learn. Happy to represent
@FloridaTechMBB
and be an ambassador for
@FloridaTech
🏀😎
Congrats to
@SesRussell99
on being named the Florida Tech student athlete of the week for his great start to the season and his role in the Panthers big win over Lynn University. Sesan scored 36 points on a very efficient 10-14 shooting, 4-6 threes, and 12-13 FTs! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow
@treyschanev
has 🧊 in his veins!!! How many times has he made big shots late in games this season? Think he lives for the OT stage!! Just another exciting
@FloridaTechMBB
game in the Clemente Center, can’t wait for next season!!
#waittilnextseason
😞😞😞😞😞 Unfortunately, we are 3 for 3 so far. After a very long wait to get started, our first 3 scheduled games have all been postponed due to Covid. We will not give up on playing though and look forward to our 1st game whenever it happens and whoever it’s against. 🏀👏🏻😃
Tonight’s
@FloridaTechMBB
Game vs. Barry has been postponed following a positive COVID-19 test result.
The status of Saturday’s game is still to be decided.
Currently ranked in the Top 5 in the Nation in 5 different team statistical categories has helped us to a perfect 7-0 start and a spot at the top of the SSC! Proud of these guys and the great start to this season they’re having. 👏🏻🤩
#GoPanthers
#TechBuilt
#Panthers4Life
@PabloCheeksBTR
It was a 28 point hammering of a win without London’s highest paid player and reigning BBL Player of the Year!! When the $5 Million Dollar man returns, even an all-star best of the rest team won’t stand a chance. Big ??? though. Copper Box wasn’t full so where’s the ROI???
Ronnie Baker was one of my favorite players to ever have coached! Small in stature but huge in heart!! He used to get so nervous in big games that he’d walk behind the bench and throw up, but once he did, I knew we were ok. It was like a sign he was going to have a great game! 😊
A 6-0 start to the season for our
@FloridaTechMBB
team thanks to the stingiest defense in the nation right now!! So proud of the commitment our guys are showing to being a great defensive team. We might not always shoot the lights out, but we’ll always defend!! 👏🏻🤩
Thank you
@IAmAhmedphotos
for the Throwback Thursday shoutout to some very fond memories and one of the happiest times in my life. I was blessed to work with so many talented players and great people. My time in
@BBLofficial
was a very special part of my life. 😊
#magicalmoments
So excited to have this quality player and outstanding young man join our
@FloridaTechMBB
family! We couldn’t ask for a better fit academically, athletically, and personally. Can’t wait to see Sean on our campus and begin working with him.
#Panther4life
#PantherPride
So happy for Mekhii Noble and wish him well in his rookie pro season. I’m excited that Mekhii will play for a decorated BBL veteran coach in Paul James and in front of the enthusiastic Plymouth City Patriot fans. I always loved the atmosphere in the Pavilions and Mekhii will too.
Please welcome American forward Mekhii Noble to the Patriots. Mekhii joins us from Florida Tech who are coached by BBL legend Billy Mims. This high IQ player averaged 12.4ppg and 6.7 rebounds in just 23 minutes.
#plymouthcitypatriots
#plymouth
#britishbasketball
Kids need to stop drinking the Koolade that TV and the media try to sell them. Every DI in the country is not better than every DII in the country!!! There are great players and great coaches at every level that come to compete every game. Many DII’s out there capable of this.
Congratulations
@Vincemacaulay
Great hire for the Giants as Vince will bring decades of
@BBLofficial
experience to Manchester in both roles. Gonna be fun to watch the matchups with London. Can’t wait to see the suit he breaks out for that first return to the capitol! 👏🏻🇬🇧🏀🤩
Don’t you mean former London Leopards player, as that’s the team that actually recruited and brought John White to the BBL?!! As a Leopard he won back to back BBL league titles, a National Cup title, and a BBL Player of the Year honor!! Definitely won more as a Leopard than Giant
@MimsCourtney
making her “unofficial” debut in Bud Walton Arena yesterday court side before the Kentucky vs Arkansas game! She must have been good luck for the Razorbacks!! She’s 1-0 in Fayetteville
@EricPMusselman
and will be in Tampa, and oh she’s a coach’s daughter too!!
#WPS
Excited to see my friend
@Vincemacaulay
return to the sidelines as a coach in Germany. Congratulations Vince. His love for the game and passion he brings for it every day is unparalleled. I hope he can take his team to a final, because I can’t wait to see the suit he’ll wear!!
Happy Birthday
@callie_mims
🎂🎁🎉🎈Just thought I’d post a few of my favorite pics from your journey in life thus far.😍 So proud of the intelligent, successful, caring young woman you’ve grown to be, but it seems like only yesterday that you stole the show at Wembley Arena🤩❤️
And what a great moment that was! One of the most memorable moments of my long coaching career!! There was so much chemistry in that group and respect for one another. What a run through the second half of that season to a great championship! It just felt like destiny. 😊
Flashback Friday: Injured Karl Brown is hoisted up by teammates Malcolm Leak and Billy Singleton as
@CoachBillyMims
hands over the ceremonial scissors to cut the net following the
@RidersBball
@BBLofficial
playoff final win at Wembley in 2001
#BritishBasketball
Congratulations
@MimsCourtney
for a well deserved honor from the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists! 🤩👏🏻 I’m so very proud of your commitment to the Panhandle community and putting out a quality broadcast covering the area’s top sports stories every night on
@WMBBTV
😍
Wow. I am truly honored to win Best Sportscaster from a small market from the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists tonight. 2020 was tough on sports, but the athletes in the Panhandle are resilient and I was still able to cover some amazing stories. Thank you everybody!😊
Words of wisdom from one of the all-time great England International players. Congrats Steve on your appointment as Performance Technical Manager! The next generation of English talent will definitely benefit from your knowledge. Wish
@bballengland
were running a U17 program.
Proud of last night against the nation’s
#1
team and only unbeaten team in all of NCAA men’s basketball! Thought we had them and totally outplayed them in the 2nd half! Finished on a 17-3 run to force overtime. They only scored 3 points over the final 6+ minutes of regulation!!👏🏻
The Panthers gave No. 1 Nova Southeastern all it could handle, but ultimately fell 95-89 in OT.
Sean Houpt scored a career-high 36 points in the SSC Semifinals loss.
#GoPanthers
🐾
Scenes from Heraklion, Crete. So beautiful and historic, thankful to have been invited here for the 2nd time. Enjoying the sites, culture, food, and hospitality while learning so much about Greece and making friends! 🇬🇷👏🏻😎