title: Rodney Tention
text: # Rodney Tention
  
  Rodney Ellis Tention (born May 27, 1963) is an American basketball coach who currently serves as an assistant coach at Cal Poly.
  
  Tention was formerly the head men's basketball coach at the College of Notre Dame and Loyola Marymount University. He then served an assistant at Stanford University under head coach Johnny Dawkins for three years, at San Diego under Bill Grier for five, and at San Jose State under Dave Wojcik for two. Following Wojcik's resignation, Tention became interim head coach of San Jose State on July 11, 2017. He held this position while the school performed its search, eventually hiring Jean Prioleau.
  
  ## Head coaching record
  
  Statistics overview :
  
  | Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | College of Notre Dame Argonauts (Northern California Athletic Conference) (1994–1997) ||||||
  | 1994–95 | College of Notre Dame | 8–18 | 6–8 | |
  | 1995–96 | College of Notre Dame | 4–22 | 1–13 | |
  | 1996–97 | College of Notre Dame | 6–20 | 2–12 | |
  | College of Notre Dame: | College of Notre Dame: | 18–60 (.231) | 9–33 (.214) | |
  | Loyola Marymount Lions (West Coast Conference) (2005–2008) ||||||
  | 2005–06 | Loyola Marymount | 12–18 | 8–6 | 3rd |
  | 2006–07 | Loyola Marymount | 13–19 | 5–9 | 6th |
  | 2007–08 | Loyola Marymount | 5–26 | 2–12 | 8th |
  | Loyola Marymount: | Loyola Marymount: | 30–63 (.323) | 15–27 (.357) | |
  | Total: | Total: | 48–123 (.281) | | |
  | National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||
  