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University of West Alabama men’s basketball head coach Allen Sharpe captured his 300th career win with an 87-74 victory over LeMoyne-Owen College last week.

Sharpe, who is in his second season at West Alabama, has also served as the head coach at Arkansas-Monticello, Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala., and Truett-McConnell, Sharpe has never had a losing record, compiling a 300-111 career record. He has had eight 20-win seasons and six seasons with 26 or more victories.

After beginning his coaching career as an assistant coach at Piedmont College in 2000, Sharpe took the head coaching position at Truett-McConnell where he went 70-25 in three years.

In five seasons at Wallace State, Sharpe went 136-30, averaging 27.2 wins per season. His record over the last four seasons at Wallace was 120-15 (89%) and the 2008 team went 30-0 and finished No. 1 in the NJCAA final poll.

Sharpe is the only coach in Arkansas-Monticello history to have four straight winning seasons and his 2011-12 team was 21-9, just the eighth 20-win season in UAM history. He coached the Great American Conference’s leading scorer two of the last three years and the 2013 GAC player of the year. He was 70-42 over four seasons for the Boll Weevils.

Sharpe played his collegiate basketball at Lipscomb University under legendary coach Don Meyer, scoring 1,431 career points for the winningest basketball program in the nation during the 90s.

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