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Andre McGee

American basketball player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4754835
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Andre Jerome McGee (born March 7, 1987) is an American former basketball coach and player who was most recently assistant coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). McGee played college basketball at Louisville under Rick Pitino and one year professionally in Germany before returning to Louisville as an assistant, first a graduate assistant then director of operations.

He resigned as assistant coach on October 23, 2015; he is the figure at the center of the 2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal.

Early life

He averaged 22.3 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 steals per game as a senior at Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley, California.

College career

McGee played four seasons with the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball program, from the 2005–06 season through the 2008–09 season. He was the starting point guard during his senior season. He played in 127 career games, including 57 starts, while averaging 5.2 points per game for the Cardinals. The team reached the Elite Eight in both the 2008 and 2009 editions of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Professional playing career

McGee played 14 games for Phoenix Hagen of Basketball Bundesliga in Germany before leaving the team in December 2009. He averaged 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists and shot 35.4%.

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“Andre McGee” enters the record as american basketball player and coach. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andre, McGee and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4754835. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2015, 2005 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Andre McGee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.