Bio

LeRoi Phillips was named head men's basketball coach at Dallas College Mountain View in 2005.

Following the 2024-25 season, Phillips has a 315-251 overall record in 20 years with the Lions. 

Phillips directed the Lions to the NJCAA Division III National Championship in 2010-11. Mountain View went 26-8 overall, beating Rochester Community & Technical College, 71-64, in the national championship game in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Phillips was named the Gary Cole Coach of the national tournament. Center Marcus Price was named the NJCAA Division III Tournament Most Valuable Player, while William Gary Talton made the NJCAA All-Tournament Team. Talton went on to play for the University of Illinois-Chicago before becoming the 16th pick in the 2013 NBA Development League, where he played with the Rio Grande Vipers. Talton was a First Team NJCAA Division III All-American in 2010-11. The Lions won the 2010-11 Metro Athletic Conference and NJCAA Region V titles for the second straight year.

In 2024-25, the Lions advanced to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III National Tournament. They won the NJCAA Division III South Central District title, beating the top two seeds in back-to-back rounds. It was Mountain View's first district title since 2011. It was the third district title under Phillips. The Lions went 15-20. Mountain View knocked off No. 15 nationally-ranked Dallas College Richland 94-85 in the district championship game. Sophomore swingman Ashton Price was named an NJCAA Division III Second Team All-American. 

Phillips' final win of the 2023-24 season was a milestone victory. Mountain View's 107-100 victory over Dallas College Brookhaven in the NJCAA Division III South Central District quarterfinals was his 300th career win with the Lions. During the season, Mountain View was ranked No. 14 in the NJCAA Division III national poll. The Lions beat NJCAA Division II Jacksonville College, 97-84, and NJCAA Division I Southwestern Christian College, 99-93, during the season to help elevate their position among the NJCAA Division III elite midway through the season. Mountain View topped 100 points in 11 games, winning 10 of them, while scoring a season-high 129 in a victory over Concordia University's Junior Varsity in late November. Joshua Smith earned NJCAA Division III Honorable Mention All-America recognition. 

In 2022-23, the Lions went 18-13 overall, advancing to the NJCAA Division III South Central District semifinals for the second straight year. Mountain View won seven straight games to begin the season, including back-to-back wins over NJCAA Division II Arkansas-Cossatot and another at NJCAA Division I Western Oklahoma State. The Lions beat Dallas College Brookhaven in the South Central District quarterfinals before bowing out in the semifinals. Farai Mandhlazi earned First Team All-Dallas Athletic Conference honors. Terry Moss III was a DAC Second Team selection, while Justice Marmara earned Honorable Mention honors.

In 2021-22, Mountain View went 18-13 overall, advancing to the district semifinals, where they fell to eventual national champion Dallas College North Lake in double overtime. That season, Phillips coached Joshua Sasser, who earned NJCAA DIII Honorable Mention All-America honors.

Phillips' teams produced winning records every season from 2009-10 until the COVID-shortened 2021 spring season. His teams won over 20 games in three straight seasons from 2009-12. His 2009-10 team went 23-12 on its way to the national tournament, after winning the MAC. Phillips guided the 2010-11 squad to a program-best 26-8 record, which culminated with the national championship. In 2011-12, the Lions went 21-8.

Mountain View was 18-13 in 2012-13 when sophomore guard Ed'Lexus Collier finished third in the nation in scoring (24.7). The Lions went 16-14 in 2013-14. Phillips guided Mountain View to a 22-9 overall, 6-4 MAC record in 2014-15, which included an eight-game win streak in November. The following season, the Lions finished 14-14 overall. 

In 2016-17, Mountain View was 19-12 overall, 6-5 in the MAC. The Lions finished 21-11 overall in the 2017-18 season. They went 19-11 overall, 7-3 in the MAC in 2018-19. Mountain View was 16-13 in 2019-20.

Phillips teams won back-to-back district/Region 5 championships in 2010 and 2011.

In 2006-07, Phillips coached forward Brandon Brown, who led the nation in scoring at 28.4 points per game. Brown ranked seventh in the NJCAA Division III in field goal percentage (66.7) and eighth in rebounds per game (12.1). That same season, Lions teammate Toreyan Burns led the country in three-point field goal percentage at 60.7 percent, going 51 of 84 from beyond the arc.

Prior to taking over as head coach in 2005-06, Phillips served as the head coach of the women's basketball club team and volleyball coach from 1999-05, while also spending one year as an assistant men's basketball coach during that six-year stretch.

Phillips played one year at Brookhaven College, averaging 20 points and a nation-leading 10 assists per game. He also played one year at Jarvis Christian College. He was inducted into the Brookhaven Hall of Fame.

Phillips earned an Associates of Science degree from Mountain View.

He and his wife, Claudette, live in DeSoto. Phillips has three sons, Dewon, Jazmine and Brandon, and two daughters, Leigha and Lauren. He has six grandchildren and one great grandchild.