MEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON CLOSES ON LOW NOTE; HEAD COACH ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION MARCH 30 AFTER ONE SEASON WITH SEVEN WINS AND 23 LOSSES

Hired in November 2022,  it was hoped he would rebuild the program that was closed down in 2010-2011  because of financial issues

Mr. Jay Joyner, Yavapai Community College Head basketball coach.

The Yavapai Community College Athletics Department announced March 30, 2023 that men’s head basketball coach, Jay Joyner, had resigned.  The Department said the resignation was a “personnel matter” and it had no further comment.

In the 2022-23 season, Joyner’s team overall won 7 games and lost 23, a .233 percentage.  In conference play, his team won four and lost 18, a .182 percentage.

When hired in November 2022,  Mr. Joyner said that “I’m truly humbled and honored to be the next head coach for men’s basketball at Yavapai College. I would like to thank Dr. Rhine, Vice President Jenkins and Athletic Director Brad Clifford for affording me this unbelievable opportunity. I look forward to building a program that the Yavapai College family will be proud of. Go Roughriders!”

“We are excited to have Jay leading the reinstitution of the men’s basketball program,” Director of Yavapai Community College Athletics Brad Clifford said. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will bring instant credibility to the new program!”

Joyner came to Yavapai from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was the head coach of the men’s basketball team from 2016-20. While coaching the Aggies, Joyner helped turn the program around with the NCAA’s second-best single-season improvement (three to 20 wins) and consecutive winning seasons for the first time since 1993.

His 2019 team earned a 19-13 overall record with a 13-3 mark in MEAC play. In 2018, the Aggies enjoyed a banner season in which they earned a CIT Tournament appearance (their first since 2013), went 11-5 in the MEAC, went undefeated at home for the first time in 30 years and went 20-15 overall en route to Coach Joyner taking home MEAC and Region 15 Coach of the Year honors.

Prior to being the head coach at North Carolina A&T State, Joyner served there as the associate men’s basketball coach from 2012-16.

Coach Joyner earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and played college basketball at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Recall that Men’s basketball last competed at Yavapai Community College during the 2010-11 season while the program started in 1970-71. Through 40 seasons, the program’s all-time record is 674-458. Joyner’s squad began the 2022-23 season as members of the ACCAC (Arizona Community College Athletic Conference)