- Tom Asbury
College coach infobox
Name = Tom Asbury
Sport =Basketball
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DateOfBirth = birth date and age|1945|7|14
Birthplace = flagicon|United StatesDenver, Colorado
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College = Pepperdine
Title = Head Coach
Awards = WCC Coach of the Year (1991, 1992)
Championships = WCC Tournament Championship (1991, 1992, 1994)
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Years = 1964-1967
Team = Wyoming
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CoachYears = 1976-1979
1979-1988
1988-1994
1994-2000
2003-2007
2008-present
CoachTeams = Wyoming (asst.)
Pepperdine (asst.)
Pepperdine
Kansas State
Alabama (asst.)
Pepperdine
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BBallHOF =Tom Asbury has gone back to Pepperdine University as head coach for the men's basketball team. He was an assistant men's basketball coach at the
University of Alabama . He was previously the head coach atPepperdine University andKansas State University .He was successful in his first stint at Pepperdine, becoming the conference coach of the year twice. Asbury compiled a 125-59 record at Pepperdine, and took the Waves to the NCAA tournament in 1991, 1992 and 1994, as well as two NIT appearances and three regular-season WCC titles.
His success landed him the Head Coaching job at
Kansas State University . He coached the Wildcats for six seasons making the NCAA Tournament once and theNIT Tournament twice. However, his final season ended in 1999-00 at Kansas State with a 9-19 record and a 2-14 conference record. He was fired and later returned to coaching as an assistant at theUniversity of Alabama under former pupilMark Gottfried .Mark Fox , the head coach at theUniversity of Nevada , is another former Asbury assistant having coached with him at Kansas State.Asbury's eldest daughter, Stacey, died at the age of 22 from her struggles with
anorexia .Coaching Record at Kansas State
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