Veteran coach Peele came to Missouri State in August 2022 as special assistant to head coach Dana Ford.
His most-recent stop was at Texas Southern University where he was associate head coach from 2018-22. Peele was part of three postseason runs in four seasons there, including back-to-back SWAC Championships and NCAA Tournament runs in 2021 and 2022.
Peele spent four season as associate head coach under Dana Ford at Tennessee State (2014-18).
He has been to three NCAA Tournaments as a head coach and guided UNC Greensboro to a 20-win season and NCAA Tournament berth in 1996 and was head coach there from 1995-99. He went on to serve as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech from 1999-02 under Ricky Stokes as the Hokies transitioned from the Atlantic 10 to the Big East. He then joined Gregg Marshall’s staff at Winthrop from 2003-07 and assumed the head coaching duties at Winthrop when Marshall departed for Wichita State. As head coach at Winthrop (2007-12), Peele led Winthrop to NCAA Tournament berths in 2008 and 2010. He is the only coach in Big South history to take two different teams to the NCAA Tournament.
He has also made assistant coaching stops at St. Michael’s College in Vermont (1983-85), UT Martin (1985-88), Campbell (1988-1991), UNCG (1991-1995) and Georgia Southern (2013-14).
Peele graduated from Virginia Wesleyan in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and history. He is married to the former Debra Carter and they have three children, Aaron, Brad and Blair.
