Kansas assistant Joe Dooley suspended after being arrested on suspicion of DUI

Kansas basketball assistant coach Joe Dooley was suspended after being arrested on suspicion of DUI, according to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello. He will be suspended for three weeks, per the report.

“Joe is remorseful, apologetic and accepts the consequences of his actions,” head coach Bill Self said in a statement. He added that Dooley “exercised poor judgement,” with the suspension beginning immediately.

This is Dooley’s second stint with Kansas, which began in 2024 as an assistant coach. He previously coached with the Jayhawks from 2003-13 under Self.

Dooley’s been coaching since 1988 after his playing days at George Washington. He was an assistant coach at South Caroline (1988-91) and East Carolina (1991-95) before taking over the Pirates in ’95 for the first of two stints as head coach there (the second being from 2018-2022). For four seasons, he went 57-52 before his firing.

Dooley ended up at New Mexico in 1999 as an assistant, coaching there until 2002 and then went to Wyoming (2002-03). That’s when he was hired by Self in 2003 to coach at Kansas, where he was for a decade.

Dooley parlayed that experience into a head coaching gig at Florida Gulf Coast in 2013, coaching there until 2018. They were dubbed “Dunk City” and made the NCAA Tournament in 2016 and ’17. FGCU won the ASUN Conference crown (regular season and/or tournament crown) four times in five years.

After going 114-58 in five seasons, East Carolina brought Dooley back as their head coach. However, he never had a winning season with ECU in his second ‘go round and was fired in 2022.

That’s when Dooley was hired by Self to come back to Kansas two years later in his return to coaching. Overall, Dooley has a 215-177 record, won three ASUN regular season crowns, two tournament crowns and was the conference’s coach of the year twice.