Dwayne Killings is entering his second season as the head coach of the University at Albany. The Amherst, Massachusetts native actually started his coaching career in the NBA, before working his way back to the college game. Killings has worked with some of the game's brightest minds, as he navigated a nearly 20-year journey to earn his first-ever Division 1 head coaching job at UAlbany.

Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.

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