Duane Reboul

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Duane Reboul (born November 9, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a current special assistant coach for the Samford University Bulldogs men's basketball team, and former head coach of the Birmingham-Southern College Panthers men's basketball team for 17 seasons.

Reboul grew up in a family of ten children in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was an All-State basketball player at De La Salle High School and walked on at the College of Santa Fe. He earned a scholarship over the winter, but left college in the spring when one of this brothers was diagnosed with spinal meningitis. He enrolled at the University of New Orleans in 1969 on a basketball scholarship. He was the starting point guard during his senior season, and led the 1970–1971 Privateers to a No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division II.

Reboul returned to De La Salle as an assistant coach under Jimmy Dykes, and succeeded him as head coach after one season. In his third season his Cavaliers reached the state finals. In 1976 he was hired to coach the Jesuit High School Blue Jays and compiled a streak of six straight 20-win seasons. He was hired as an assistant on Don Smith's staff at the University of New Orleans in 1982. When Smith was replaced, Reboul worked briefly in commercial real estate before being hired as an assistant to Richard Williams at Mississippi State University.

After three seasons with the Bulldogs, Reboul was hired as the 11th head coach at Birmingham-Southern. His Panther's teams won national NAIA championships in 1990 and 1995. In their first season after moving up to Division I, the 2004 Panthers finished as co-champions of the Big South Conference and Reboul was named the conference's Coach of the Year. They were runners-up in each of the next two seasons, and Reboul was honored as Coach of the Year again in 2006. He resigned in protest when Birmingham-Southern announced it would move back down to Division III that year. He finished his head coaching career with a record of 402–124 in 17 seasons. Reboul remained under contract at BSC as part of the physical education faculty.

In 2007 Reboul's wife, Rainey was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She died in 2015. In 2020 Reboul was invited to join Bucky McMillan's staff at Samford as a special assistant.

Reboul was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.

Preceded by:
' 		BSC Panther's men's basketball coach
1989–2006 		Succeeded by:
Mitch Cole

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