Widely known as the most-winningest coach in John Brown University men's basketball program history, John Sheehy led the Golden Eagles to a pair of national championships, including the institution's lone NAIA title, the 2004-05 Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.

Sheehy, who had a career .558 win percentage and accumulated 317 wins in 18 seasons, also led the men's basketball program to a 1990-91 National Christian College Athletic Association men's basketball championship.

The sixth coach to be inducted into the Golden Eagle Hall of Fame spent 18 seasons (1989-2007) as bench boss and guided the program to multiple watershed moments, including the program's first national top-25 ranking in the 1999-00 season. Also at the helm during JBU's first-ever trip to the NAIA National Championships, Sheehy led the Golden Eagles to four appearances at college basketball's oldest tournament from 2002-07.

Beginning in 2000, Sheehy oversaw JBU's recognition in 19 separate weekly NAIA top-25 rankings and mentored 15 All-Sooner Athletic players. While also serving as Assistant Director of Athletics each year as head coach, Sheehy was named the 2006 Sooner Athletic Conference Co-Coach of the Year and has the court inside Bill George Arena named in his honor.