Joseph Gerard Dooley III (born January 29, 1966) is in his 2nd stint as the head men's basketball coach of the East Carolina University Pirates, having previously served as head coach from 1995-1999.
Dooley was an assistant on the Kansas Jayhawks 2007–08 NCAA national championship team.
and previously served as head coach at Florida Gulf Coast University.Dooley is a 1988 graduate of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he completed his bachelor's degree in speech communications.
A four-year letter winner in basketball at George Washington, he started his last two seasons and was elected a team captain as a senior.
A native of West Orange, New Jersey, Dooley was a prep player at St.
Benedicts High School in New Jersey where he scored 1,140 career points.
He is married to Tanya Dooley and has a son named Max Dooley.