University of North Texas Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Associate Coach
- Email:
- durmon.jennings@unt.edu
- Phone:
- 940-565-3103
- Alma Mater:
- University of Indianapolis, 2013
The longest tenured member on the UNT women’s basketball staff, Durmon Jennings recently completed his sixth season with the Mean Green. He was promoted to associate coach in April 2024 after holding an assistant position throughout his first four seasons in Denton.
Primarily working with the frontcourt and scout team, Jennings has seen North Texas rise to new heights since his hiring in 2020. The Mean Green have won 10+ conference games in five of his six seasons on staff and just completed their third consecutive 19-win season for the first time in program history. It also captured a share of the 2024 American Conference regular season championship and advanced to back-to-back national postseason tournaments in 2024 and 2025.
This past season, North Texas compiled a 19-14 record and finished top four in the American Conference standings for the third year in a row. The Mean Green sank a program-record 181 three-pointers and ranked top three in the league in both scoring offense and defense.
Jennings was crucial in recruiting and developing two of the most successful forwards to ever come through Denton in Megan Nestor and Tommisha Lampkin.
Despite never playing competitive basketball until college and having only competed at the NAIA level, Nestor become one of the country’s most dominant inside forces during her one season in Denton. She averaged 12.8 points and 14.1 rebounds per game, making her the American’s only player to average a double double, and finished the season as the NCAA’s leading rebounder. Nestor also broke nearly every single-season rebounding record in both UNT and American Conference history, and her 21 double doubles ranked top 10 in the country.
On Dec. 6, 2025, Nestor produced one of the best games in NCAA history with 34 points and 31 rebounds against Texas Southern. It was just the NCAA’s third 30-30 game since at least 1982 and tied the most rebounds in a game since 2006. Following the season, Nestor received several postseason accolades from the American Conference, including Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-Conference honors.
Before Nestor, it was Lampkin who dominated the paint as one of the program’s all-time greats. With Jennings’ coaching, Lampkin improved her production each season at UNT and eventually became the program’s record holder in career rebounds, double doubles and games played, while also ranking top three in career points, field goal percentage and blocks.
In total, Jennings has coached four post players to five All-Conference honors while at North Texas in Nestor (2026), Lampkin (2024-25), DesiRay Kernal (2024) and Madison Townley (2022).
Jennings came to Denton following two seasons as the women’s basketball associate head coach at Eastern New Mexico. Spearheaded by his player development and recruiting, Jennings helped guide the Greyhounds to the second-most wins in program history with a 22-9 record in 2019-20. ENMU also advanced to the NCAA Division II South Central Region Championship Tournament for the third time ever and recorded a historic victory over top-ranked and defending national champion Lubbock Christian that year.
He previously served as a graduate assistant coach on the ENMU men’s staff during the 2015-16 season and fall 2016 semester before transitioning into a volunteer role that next spring.
Before going to Eastern, Jennings was a boys’ varsity and junior varsity coach at Durango High School in Las Vegas for two years. He also spent time as a 17U coach for the Elite Youth Basketball League in the summer of 2015 and 15U coach for the Under Armour Association the summer prior.
In 2013, Jennings became an intern for the NBA Summer League, as well as for the athletic administration at UNLV. Before moving to Las Vegas, he coached back home in Indianapolis as a girls’ basketball and track and field coach for Warren Central High School from 2011 to 2013. Jennings originally started coaching in 2011 at Manual High School for the girls’ basketball team.
Jennings earned his bachelor’s degree in Sports Management at the University of Indianapolis in 2013 after playing on the men’s basketball team at Geneva College for the 2007-08 season. He eventually earned his master’s degree in Sports Administration from Eastern New Mexico in 2016.
COACHING HISTORY
2024-Present: UNT, Associate Coach
2020-2024: UNT, Assistant Coach
2017-20: Eastern New Mexico, Associate Head Coach
2015-17: Eastern New Mexico, Men's Basketball Graduate Assistant Coach
2011-13: Warren Central High School, Girls' Basketball Head Coach
2010-11: Manual High School, Girls' Basketball Head Coach
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
2007-08: Geneva College
