Donald Eugene DeVoe (born December 31, 1941) is a former American college basketball coach and former player.
[4][5] He led the Volunteers to their first ever NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1981, where they lost to top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers.
[8] The Gators were a talented team beset by personality problems, and DeVoe later described his acceptance of the job on an interim basis as a "mistake" that left him without authority to fix the program's more serious issues.
[6] He publicly clashed with the Gators' temperamental star center Dwayne Schintzius when DeVoe attempted to impose a new conditioning program and a measure of team discipline.
[9] Schintzius quit mid-season, ostensibly over DeVoe's demand that he get a haircut,[6] and the Gators finished 7–21 overall and 3–15 in the SEC.
In his thirty-one season career as a college basketball head coach, DeVoe led three different teams to the NCAA tournament, and posted an overall win–loss record of 512–389 (.568).