Lon Kruger
Alma Mater:
Class of:
Hometown:
Silver Lake, KS
- Guided Florida to Final Four in 1994 NCAA Tournament
- Directed Florida to fourth-place finish in 1992 NIT
- Won back-to-back Mountain West Conference Tournament championships with UNLV (2007 and 2008)
- First coach to take three different schools to the Top 20 of a final wire-service poll
- Assistant coach at Pittsburg (KS) State under Bob Johnson for one season in 1976-77, and at Kansas State under Jack Hartman for five seasons from 1977-78 through 1981-82
- Compiled a 69-122 NBA coaching record (.361) with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks in three seasons from 2000-01 to 2002-03 before serving as an assistant with the New York Knicks under Don Chaney during the 2003-04 season
- Major-college career playing statistics under Hartman (13.3 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 46.8 FG%, 82.6 FT%). Ninth-round NBA draft choice by the Atlanta Hawks in 1974
- Final Top 20 Rankings (four: AP/UPI/USA)--1988 (20/20/8), 1994 (14/15/4), 1997 (19/NR), 1998 (22/NR), 2000 (21/NR) and 2007 (25/14)
- All-Americans (one): Kansas State's Mitch Richmond (1988).
Record:
Season | School | Overall | League | Finish | Conference (Division) | Postseason (Record) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-21 | DNP | |||||
13-14 | DNP | |||||
12-16 | DNP | |||||
20-8 | DNP | |||||
20-11 | 8-6 | 4th | NCAA (1-1) | |||
25-11 | 11-3 | 2nd | NCAA (3-1) | |||
19-11 | 8-6 | 3rd | NCAA (0-1) | |||
17-15 | 7-7 | 4th | NCAA (0-1) | |||
11-17 | 7-11 | 6th | DNP | |||
19-14 | 9-7 | 2nd | SEC (East) | NIT (3-2) | ||
16-12 | 9-7 | 3rd | SEC (East) | NIT (0-1) | ||
29-8 | 12-4 | T-1st | SEC (East) | NCAA (4-1) | ||
17-13 | 8-8 | 3rd | SEC (East) | NCAA (0-1) | ||
12-16 | 6-10 | T-5th | SEC (East) | DNP | ||
22-10 | 11-7 | T-4th | NCAA (1-1) | |||
23-10 | 13-3 | T-1st | NCAA (1-1) | |||
14-18 | 3-13 | 11th | DNP | |||
22-10 | 11-5 | 4th | NCAA (1-1) | |||
17-14 | 7-7 | T-4th | NIT (1-1) | |||
17-13 | 10-6 | 4th | DNP | |||
30-7 | 12-4 | 2nd | NCAA (2-1) | |||
27-8 | 12-4 | 2nd | NCAA (1-1) | |||
21-11 | 9-7 | 5th | NIT (0-1) | |||
25-9 | 11-5 | T-3rd | NCAA (0-1) | |||
2011-12 |
- 24-Year College Coaching Record: 455-295 (.607) overall
- 52-59 (.468) in four years at Texas-Pan American
- 81-47 (.633) in four years at Kansas State
- 104-80 (.565) in six years at Florida
- 81-48 (.628) in four years at Illinois
- 137-62 (.688) in first six years at UNLV
- 34-22 (.607) in Big Eight Conference
- 51-47 (.520) in Southeastern Conference
- 38-28 (.576) in Big Ten Conference
- 61-33 (.649) in Mountain West Conference
- 4-4 (.500) in Big Eight Tournament
- 5-6 (.455) in SEC Tournament
- 6-3 (.667) in Big Ten Tournament
- 10-4 (.714) in Mountain West Tournament
- 14-12 (.538) in NCAA Tournament
- 4-5 (.444) in NIT