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Bruce Weber (coach)

Bruce Weber
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Kansas State
Conference Big 12
Record 95–61
Annual salary $1.85 million
Biographical details
Born (1956-10-19) October 19, 1956 (age 60)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1980 Western Kentucky (assistant)
1980–1998 Purdue (assistant)
1998–2003 Southern Illinois
2003–2012 Illinois
2012–present Kansas State
Head coaching record
Overall 408–216
Tournaments 11–10 (NCAA), 3-2 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Big 12 regular season championship (2013)
Big Ten regular season championship (2004, 2005)
Big Ten Tournament championship (2005)
MVC regular season championship (2002, 2003)
Awards
Naismith College Coach of the Year (2005)
AP National Coach of the Year (2005)
Big 12 Coach of the Year (2013)
Big Ten Coach of the Year (2005)
MVC Coach of the Year (2003)

Bruce Brett Weber (born October 19, 1956) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the men's basketball head coach at Kansas State University. Weber was formerly head coach at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.

Weber has won conference championships and conference coach of the year awards at each of the three schools where he has served as head coach. He has guided his teams to a combined total of ten NCAA Tournaments, including an appearance with Illinois in the championship game of the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Weber was the consensus national coach of the year in 2005.

Weber began his coaching career with a brief stint as an assistant coach at Western Kentucky University during the 1979–80 season under head coach Gene Keady. In 1980, Weber moved to Purdue University along with Keady. He remained an assistant coach at Purdue for 18 seasons before becoming the head coach at Southern Illinois University in 1998.

In his five seasons at Southern Illinois, Weber led the Salukis to consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships and NCAA tournament appearances in 2002 and 2003, including a Sweet Sixteen finish in 2002.


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