Academy of Art University Athletics

Jeremiah Barnes enters his fifth year as assistant men's basketball coach for Academy of Art University in 2016-17.

ART U's 2014-15 campaign under head coach Julius Barnes and his staff was the second winningest season in program history (7-19, 5-20 Pacific West Conference) and featured team records in 3-pointers made (148) as well as steals (211). Playing one of the program's toughest-ever schedules (six top-25 teams), the Urban Knights had 15 games decided by 10 points or less, making more than half the games on their calendar exciting, competitive barn-burners. Perhaps two of the biggest highlights were a win over then-No. 22 Seattle Pacific on the Falcons' home floor to start the year along with junior guard Nick Cary's buzzer beater, to give ART U its first-ever victory over Chaminade in PacWest Conference play.

Through 2012-14, the team totalled 15 wins compared to the Knights' 13 victories in their first four years of existence from 2008-12. ART U posted the highest win total in program history in Barnes and his staff's first year 2012-13) with nine triumphs. That year, the team won its first five home games and was one victory shy of capturing the sixth seed to enter the inaugural Pacific West Conference Championship Tournament.

The Urban Knights also produced All-PacWest Second Team honoree Ameer Shamsud-din PacWest and the PacWest Freshman of the Year in Alex Carmon. In 2013-14, the team produced All-PacWest Third Team honoree Alexis Moore.

Barnes came to the ART U staff after playing for Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif., before transferring to the Urban Knights' PacWest rival Dixie State College to finish out his college career.

Jeremiah graduated from Dixie State in 2011 and averaged the third-most minutes per game his senior year at Dixie State. He also scored 8.8 points a contest for the Red Storm in his two years there, posting a career high of 22 points twice, once against Chaminade and once against UH Hilo.

Barnes comes from a strong basketball family, one that includes his father Herman playing overseas, his brother Jamaal playing college ball at Cal State Dominguez Hills and the professional Slamball League, and Julius playing at Stanford and overseas. He was raised in Compton, CA, and attended Los Altos High School, where earned four straight All-Miramonte League selections.