Dana Altman
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| Sport(s) | Men's basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Oregon |
| Conference | Pac-12 |
| Record | 187–69 (.730) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 16, 1958 Crete, Nebraska |
| Playing career | |
| 1976–1978 | Southeast CC |
| 1978–1980 | Eastern New Mexico |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1980–1982 | Western State (asst.) |
| 1982–1983 | Southeast CC |
| 1983–1986 | Moberly CC |
| 1986–1989 | Kansas State (asst.) |
| 1989–1990 | Marshall |
| 1990–1994 | Kansas State |
| 1994–2010 | Creighton |
| 2010–present | Oregon |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 597–312 (.656) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Regional Championship - Final Four (2017) 6× MVC Tournament championship (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007) 3× MVC regular season championship (2001, 2002, 2009) CBI championship (2011) 2× Pac-12 Tournament championship (2013, 2016) 2x Pac-12 regular season championship (2016, 2017) |
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| Awards | |
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SoCon Coach of the Year (1990) Big Eight Coach of the Year (1993) 2× MVC Coach of the Year (2001, 2002) 3× Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2013, 2015, 2016) Jim Phelan Award (2013) |
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Dana Dean Altman (born June 16, 1958) is an American college basketball coach. He is the head coach of the University of Oregon Ducks men's basketball team. Previously he was head coach at Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman has won conference coach of the year awards at each school he has coached, and has led his teams to 13 appearances in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Dana Altman began playing college basketball at Fairbury Junior College (now Southeast Community College) in Fairbury, Nebraska. He earned an associate degree in business administration there in 1978. He then received his undergraduate degree in the same field at Eastern New Mexico University in 1980.
In his first NCAA Division I head coaching position, Altman became the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in 1989. Although he only spent one season as the coach of the Thundering Herd, Altman led the Herd to a 15-13 record and to runners-up in the Southern Conference Tournament losing to East Tennessee State in the tournament championship game. Altman left Marshall after only one season to replace his mentor, Lon Kruger, at Kansas State.
Although his four-year tenure as Kansas State’s head coach produced one NCAA Tournament appearance, Dana Altman will be remembered most for his ability to win close ball games, and for pulling off some of the biggest upsets in school history.
Altman’s teams were 28–13 in games decided by six points or less, which included a 6–1 mark in one-point games. His 1992–93 club perpetuated a Kansas State tradition. Picked to finish last in the Big Eight, Altman’s Wildcats won 11 games in the final minute, earned the school’s first Top 25 ranking in five seasons, finished 19–11, reached the championship game of the Big Eight Tournament and returned Kansas State to the NCAA Tournament for the 21st time.
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