Eddie Fogler
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 12, 1948 Queens, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1967–1970 | North Carolina |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1970–1971 | DeMatha Catholic HS (assistant) |
| 1971–1986 | North Carolina (assistant) |
| 1986–1989 | Wichita State |
| 1989–1993 | Vanderbilt |
| 1993–2001 | South Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 265–195 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NIT (1990) 2× SEC regular season championship (1993, 1997) |
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| Awards | |
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Henry Iba Award (1993) AP Coach of the Year (1993) NABC Coach of the Year (1993) UPI Coach of the Year (1993) MVC Coach of the Year (1987) 2× SEC Coach of the Year (1993, 1997) |
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Eddie Fogler (born June 12, 1948) is a retired American college basketball player and coach. He played for the University of North Carolina from 1967 to 1970 where he played as a point guard on two NCAA Final Four teams. Fogler was an All-City guard at Flushing High School in Flushing, New York.
“I was a pretty good high school player growing up and did pretty well,” said Fogler. “North Carolina always had a tradition of looking in New York for players from Coach (Frank) McGuire who passed that down to Coach Smith. “I went to a summer camp in North Carolina before my senior year. I loved it and they felt I might be good enough to help their program. It worked out for me to become a student-athlete at Chapel Hill in 1966-1970. We played freshman ball and my freshman coach was Larry Brown.” As a junior, Fogler was a solid starter at guard and the Tar Heels reached the Final Four again as ACC Champions and ACC Tournament champions finishing with a 27–5 record. North Carolina lost in a semifinals game to Purdue (92–65) who was led by All-American Rick Mount.
After graduating from UNC with a degree in Mathematics, Fogler spent the next year teaching and coaching at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, under prep legend Morgan Wooten. After one year in Hyattsville, Fogler would return to Chapel Hill as a graduate assistant for two seasons under Smith. He would spend 15 years as a Tar Heel assistant where the university won eight ACC Championships, five ACC Tournament Titles and made the Final Four four times with a national title in 1982 over Georgetown. Coaching for his mentor Smith was an experience of a lifetime for a young college coach.
Fogler served as an assistant college basketball coach at UNC and then served as the head basketball coach at Wichita State University, Vanderbilt University, and University of South Carolina.
From 1986 to 1989, he served as head coach at Wichita State University where he compiled a 61–32 (.656) record which included two NCAA Tournament appearances and one NIT berth for the Shockers.
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