Frankie Allen (born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1949) is an American men's college basketball coach at Maryland Eastern Shore. Prior to his current position, he was the head coach at Virginia Tech, Tennessee State and Howard, as well as an assistant at Radford. His greatest success was at Tennessee State where he won three Ohio Valley Conference titles and was the 1993 national Coach of the Year. Allen played collegiately under Charles Moir at Roanoke College, where he was the school's first African-American athlete. Allen would later coach at Virginia Tech as an assistant under Moir and then follow Moir as the head coach of the Hokies.
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