Everything about Lon Kruger totally explained
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Silver Lake, Kansas,
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SEC Coach of the Year (1992, 1994)
MWC Coach of the Year (2008)
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Big 10 Regular Season Championship (1998)
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Lon Kruger (born
August 19,
1952 in
Silver Lake, Kansas) is an
American basketball coach. Most recently he took the
UNLV Rebels to the
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Sweet 16 for the first time since 1991.
Prior to accepting the
head coaching position at UNLV in 2004, Kruger was the head coach of the
Atlanta Hawks of the
National Basketball Association. It was as head coach of the Hawks that Kruger guaranteed season-ticket holders that the Hawks would make the playoffs or get a $125 refund. The Hawks failed to make the playoffs and Kruger was fired midway through the season. Kruger also held head coaching positions in
collegiate basketball at the
University of Texas-Pan American (1982-86),
Kansas State University (1986-90), the
University of Florida (1990-96), and the
University of Illinois (1996-2000). Kruger is one of five coaches to take 4 teams to the men's NCAA basketball tournament.
He was an assistant coach under
Rudy Tomjanovich for the
US national team in the
1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
As a player, Kruger led
Kansas State to back-to-back
Big Eight championships in
1972 and
1973 under coach
Jack Hartman. Kruger was named the
Big Eight Player of the Year in 1973 and
1974, after being named the Big Eight Sophomore of the Year in
1972. He was also a
Shortstop on the Kansas State
Baseball team. As coach of the Wildcats, he led K-State to the NCAA Tournament in each of his four seasons as head coach and the Elite 8 in 1988 before losing to the archrival
Kansas Jayhawks, the eventual national champion.
Kruger's son, Kevin, took advantage of a new NCAA rule, called Proposal 2005-54, before the 2006-2007 season to transfer from
Arizona State and immediately play for his father at UNLV without sitting out one year. The controversial rule has been repealed for the next season due to the "
unintended consequences" of allowing players with undergraduate diplomas to immediately begin playing for another school without sitting out for any time.
On
February 9,
2008, The
UNLV Rebels beat Colorado St. 68-51 at home, for his 400th career win.
Collegiate Coaching Record
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