Luke Murray is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant for the UConn Huskies men's basketball team.
Murray was born to actor Bill Murray and Margaret Kelly.[1] He attended St. Luke's School in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he played basketball and football.[2] Murray attended Fairfield University and graduated in 2007.[3] He began coaching AAU basketball during his freshman year at Fairfield.[4] He later served as an assistant on an AAU team coached by former Boston Celtics head coach John Carroll during his final years in college.[5]
Murray began his college coaching career in 2007 as the director of basketball operations at Quinnipiac under coach Tom Moore.[6] After one season he was hired as an assistant coach at Post University. Murray left Post to take a graduate assistant position at Arizona in 2009.[7]
Murray was hired as an assistant coach at Wagner by head coach Dan Hurley.[8] He was hired to the coaching staff at Towson in 2011.[2] Murray was hired at Rhode Island, reuniting him with Hurley.[5]
Murray was hired to head coach Chris Mack's staff at Xavier in 2015 after two seasons at Rhode Island.[9] He followed Mack when he was hired as the head coach at Louisville in 2018.[10] Murray also served as the primary recruiter for the Cardinals in addition to his assistant coaching duties.[11] His contract was not renewed at the end of the 2020–2021 season.[12]
Murray was hired a third time by Dan Hurley, now the head coach at UConn, on May 3, 2021.[13] He began coordinating the Huskies offense prior to the start of the team's 2022–2023 national championship season.[14] He continued as offensive coordinator the following season as UConn repeated as national champion.[15][16] Murray signed a three-year contract extension on July 8, 2024.[17]
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