Durmon Jennings

Biography

The longest tenured member on the UNT women’s basketball staff, Durmon Jennings recently completed his sixth season with the Mean Green. He was promoted to associate coach in April 2024 after holding an assistant position throughout his first four seasons in Denton. Primarily working with the frontcourt and scout team, Jennings has seen North Texas rise to new heights since his hiring in 2020. The Mean Green have won 10+ conference games in five of his six seasons on staff and just completed their third consecutive 19-win season for the first time in program history. It also captured a share of the 2024 American Conference regular season championship and advanced to back-to-back national postseason tournaments in 2024 and 2025. This past season, North Texas compiled a 19-14 record and finished top four in the American Conference standings for the third year in a row. The Mean Green sank a program-record 181 three-pointers and ranked top three in the league in both scoring offense and defense. Jennings was crucial in recruiting and developing two of the most successful forwards to ever come through Denton in Megan Nestor and Tommisha Lampkin. Despite never playing competitive basketball until college and having only competed at the NAIA level, Nestor become one of the country’s most dominant inside forces during her one season in Denton. She averaged 12.8 points and 14.1 rebounds per game, making her the American’s only player to average a double double, and finished the seaso

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