Buzz timeline

  • Posted January 29, 2006 at midnight

  • As a high school player out of Asheville, N.C., Buzz Peterson was a Parade and McDonald’s All- American, earning North Carolina Player of the Year honors ahead of future University of North Carolina teammate Michael Jordan.
  • Played four years for the Tar Heels, helping them to a 115-22 overall record and winning a national championship in 1982.
  • Earned his first coaching job as an assistant at Appalachian State from 1987-89.
  • Assistant coaching positions at East Tennessee State (1989-90), North Carolina State (1990-93) and Vanderbilt (1993-96).
  • Became head coach at Appalachian State in 1996 with an overall record of 79-39 in four years.
  • He spent one year at Tulsa, going 26-11 and winning the NIT championship in 2001.
  • Named head coach at Tennessee in 2001, going 15-16, 17-12, 15-14 and 14-17 over the course of the next four years.
  • March 13, 2005, fired as coach at Tennessee.
  • April 13, 2005, hired as new head coach at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.

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