His first team won 10 games but his second improved to a 14-14 overall record and a 9-7 Trans America Athletic Conference mark, its best finish in five years.

[3] After serving one season as an assistant at Miami, Kennedy was named Murray State's 14th men's basketball coach in 2006, taking over after Mick Cronin departed for Cincinnati.

Taking over a team with only one returning starter, he led the Racers to a 16-14 season and second-place finish in the Ohio Valley Conference.

His fourth team at Murray State won more games than any in school history, reaching the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The 13th-seeded Racers beat fourth-seed Vanderbilt University 66-65 in the first round in the West Regional at San Jose, California–only the third NCAA Tournament win in school history.

The Racers finished the season with a 31-5 record, including a 17-1 conference mark, and avenged their lone league loss with a 62-51 win over Morehead State in the OVC tournament championship game.

Kennedy said he planned to return following treatment and temporarily put Associate Coach Glynn Cyprien in charge of the team.

[9] A&M would tie up the game before finally defeating Northern Iowa in double overtime in order to advance to the Sweet 16 against the University of Oklahoma.

[12] After Gregg Marshall's resignation from Wichita State, Kennedy was hired as an assistant for the 2020-21 season by the interim head coach Isaac Brown.