Donnie Tyndall is enterning his fourth season as head coach of Chipola College men’s basketball team.

Coach Tyndall has won the Panhandle Conference all three seasons and, for his efforts, been named the Panhandle Conference Coach of the Year in each of those seasons.

In 2022-2023, he led the team to their third consecutive appearance in the NJCAA Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. It was only the second time in school history that the Indians had appeared in three consecutive national tournaments matching the 2007-2009 teams. At the 2023 NJCAA Tournament, the Indians defeated Cape Fear Community College, 99-66, before falling to Midland College, 69-55. Coach Tyndall has an overall 5-3 record in NJCAA D1 Tournament games.

In his first two seasons leading the Indians, Tyndall's teams won back-to-back Panhandle and FSCAA/Region VIII Championships and advanced to the Final Four of the NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. Tyndall was also named Panhandle and FCSAA/Region VIII Coach of the Year in both seasons.

In three seasons at the helm, Tyndall has led Chipola to an 82-16 record, including a 42-2 record in the Milton H. Johnson Center. Over the three-year span, seventeen players have moved on to NCAA Division One schools.

Tyndall has a Division 1 and NBA pedigree having served as head coach at the University of Tennessee, University of Southern Mississippi, Morehead State University, and for the Detroit Pistons D-League developmental team.  Tyndall also served in assistant coaching roles at LSU, Idaho, Middle Tennessee and for the Toronto Raptors 905 team.  

Tyndall started his head coaching career (1996-97) at St. Catherine College, a Kentucky JUCO, where he went 30-5 en route to the school’s first NJCAA Tournament appearance. 

From 2006-2012, he led D-1 Morehead State to the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament (2011), an OVC Conference Championship and three straight 20-win seasons. 

At Southern Mississippi (2012-2014), he led the Golden Eagles to a Conference USA Co-Championship (2014) and recorded the highest attendance in 20 years. He served for one year as head coach at the University of Tennessee (2015). 

In 2016, Tyndall was hired by the NBA’s Toronto Raptors organization as an assistant coach for their Raptors 905 developmental team. He served as an assistant coach with the developmental team for the Grand Rapids Drive of the Detroit Pistons and was promoted to their head coach for the 2019-20 season. 

A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Tyndall graduated from Northview High School and played one season of junior-college basketball in Fort Dodge, Iowa, before transferring to Morehead State to join its basketball team from 1990-93. He earned his bachelor’s degree from MSU in 1993.

Tyndall later received his master’s degree from LSU in 2000.

He has two daughters, Taylor and Grace.