Kyle Roane started his third stint on the Southeastern Louisiana men's basketball staff in the 2022-23 season. He will enter his seventh overall season at SLU in 2024-25, now as the associate head coach for the Lions.
The Hattiesburg, Mississippi native has been in coaching since he was a student assistant for Pearl River Community College from 1992-1994 and then as a full assistant for the Wildcats while he continued his undergraduate education at Southern Mississippi. Â After earning his Bachelor's and beginning graduate classes at William Carey University, Roane returned to the classroom at USM in 1996 while also getting his first assistant job at a four-year institution with the Golden Eagles. He earned his Master's from USM and remained there until 2003 where he took his first head coaching job, which came in the high school ranks.
After two years there, he returned to the PRCC bench for two years before getting his first collegiate head coach job at Jones Junior College.
After two years at Jones, he returned to the four-year ranks at Jacksonville State University for two years before going back to the high school in Mississippi in 2010 which gave him his first head job.
In 2014, after four years on the Mississippi high school scene, Southeastern came calling for the first time, serving for the next two seasons on Jay Ladner's Lions staff.
Following those two years, he returned to his alma mater, USM, to become the Director of Basketball Operations for the Golden Eagles.
One year after leaving the Lions, Roane returned to SLU, helping guide the Lions to the Southland Conference Championship in 2017-18, again under Coach Ladner.
He stayed with Southeastern through the 2018-19 season before heading back to USM to serve as an assistant for the Golden Eagles until Southeastern called again.
Returning to the Lions for the 2022-23 season as David Kiefer's associate head coach, Roane helped guide the Lions to their second straight winning season, the first time SLU achieved that since his previous stint in Hammond, as well as a bye in the Southland Conference Tournament for the second straight season.
In 2023-24, Roane assisted Kiefer in getting Southeastern to a third-straight winning record in Southland Conference play, and a fourth-straight trip to the SLC Tournament.
