{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Doug Day | image = | career_number = | career_position = Shooting guard | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 1 | weight_lb = 170 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|2|17}} | birth_place = Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S | high_school = Blacksburg (Blacksburg, Virginia) | college = Radford (1989–1993) | draft_year = 1993 | cyears1 = 1993–1997 | cteam1 = Northside HS (assistant) | cyears2 = 1997–2002 | cteam2 = Blacksburg HS (assistant) | cyears3 = 2002–present | cteam3 = Blacksburg HS | highlights = * 4× All-Big South selection * No. 20 honored by Radford Highlanders | number = 20 }} '''Douglas Mcarthur Day, Jr.''' (born February 17, 1972) is an American high school basketball coach and former college basketball player.
==Playing career== At {{height|ft=6|in=1}}, Day played the shooting guard position for Radford University between 1989 and 1993. He was a prolific three-point field goal shooter; at the time of his graduation, his 401 made three-pointers were the most in NCAA Division I history, breaking the prior mark of 363 set by Loyola Marymount's Jeff Fryer in 1990.<ref name=LEGENDS>{{cite web| last =Teitel| first =Jon| title =Jon Teitel's Forgotten Legends Series: Radford Great Doug Day| publisher =CollegeHoops.net| date =September 14, 2010| url =http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/jon-teitels-forgotten-legends-series-radford-great-doug-day-168713| accessdate =April 24, 2013| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20130603003604/http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/jon-teitels-forgotten-legends-series-radford-great-doug-day-168713| archivedate =June 3, 2013}}</ref> Day led the nation in threes made per game as a junior when he connected for 4.03 per contest.<ref name=RHOF>{{cite web| title =Radford Athletics Hall of Fame: Class of 2005| publisher =Radford University| year =2012| url =http://www.ruhighlanders.com/sports/2009/10/19/RUhof.aspx| accessdate =April 24, 2013| archive-date =March 12, 2012| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120312210151/http://www2.ruhighlanders.com/sports/2009/10/19/RUhof.aspx| url-status =dead}}</ref> That season, he led the Highlanders to their first Big South Conference men's basketball regular season championship; it was also the second of back-to-back 20-win seasons.<ref name=RHOF/>
In each of Day's four seasons he was named to an All-Big South team.<ref name=LEGENDS/> He graduated in 1993 as the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,027 points, which through the 2024–25 season is still the record.<ref name=LEGENDS/> Day also set the still-standing Radford record for points in a game with 43, which he achieved on December 12, 1990 against Central Connecticut State.<ref name=LEGENDS/> He holds many of the three-point records at Radford as well, including makes in a game (11, twice), season (117) and career (401); and attempts in a game (19), season (314), and career (1,068).<ref>{{cite web| title =Men's Basketball Individual Records| publisher =Radford University| url =http://www.radfordathletics.com/sports/2010/10/27/MBB_1027100655.aspx?id=152| accessdate =April 24, 2013}}</ref>
Day was inducted into the Radford University Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Big South Conference Hall of Fame in 2005.<ref name=RHOF/><ref>{{cite web| title =Big South Conference Inducts Five New Members Into Hall of Fame| publisher =Big South Conference| date =June 8, 2005| url =http://www.bigsouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=4800&ATCLID=151862&SPID=2026&SPSID=25897| accessdate =April 24, 2013}}</ref>
==Coaching career== After graduating from Radford in 1993 with a degree in education, Day began his coaching career as an assistant boys' basketball coach at Northside High School in Roanoke, Virginia.<ref name=COACH>{{cite web| last =Teitlebaum| first =Bob| title =Great player now coaches his old school| work =The Sports Journal of the Valleys| publisher =HawkeyeReport.com| date =January 21, 2003| url =http://fe12.rivals.sports.sp1.yahoo.net/content.asp?Load=&CACHE=1&CID=159611&SID=940| accessdate =April 24, 2013| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://archive.today/20130703121308/http://fe12.rivals.sports.sp1.yahoo.net/content.asp?Load=&CACHE=1&CID=159611&SID=940| archivedate =July 3, 2013}}</ref> He spent several seasons at Northside until becoming an assistant at his ''alma mater'', Blacksburg High School, in Blacksburg, Virginia.<ref name=COACH/> After five seasons, head coach Bob Trear stepped down and in August 2002 Day became the new boys' head coach, a position he still holds today.<ref name=COACH/> In 2025–26, Blacksburg finished last in the region with a 1–21 record.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schedule – Blacksburg Bruins (Blacksburg, VA) Basketball 25–26 |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/va/blacksburg/blacksburg-bruins/basketball/schedule/ |access-date=April 9, 2026 |website=maxpreps.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=River Ridge Region Basketball Standings |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/va/basketball/25-26/region/river-ridge/?leagueid=99bd5c6d-d6ef-4513-b55f-2619a12d5efa |access-date=April 9, 2026 |website=maxpreps.com}}</ref>
==See also== * List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season 3-point field goal leaders
==References== {{Reflist}}
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