Herb Sendek
Sendek in 2016.
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Santa Clara |
| Conference | WCC |
| Record | 17–16 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 22, 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Playing career | |
| 1981–1984 | Carnegie Mellon |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1989 | Providence (assistant) |
| 1989–1993 | Kentucky (assistant) |
| 1994–1996 | Miami (OH) |
| 1996–2006 | NC State |
| 2006–2015 | Arizona State |
| 2016–present | Santa Clara |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 430–311 (.580) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| MAC regular season (1995) | |
| Awards | |
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Pac-10 Coach of the Year (2010) ACC Coach of the Year (2004) MAC Coach of the Year (1995) |
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Herbert Joseph "Herb" Sendek, Jr. (born February 22, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Santa Clara.
Herbert Joseph Sendek, Jr. of Slovak descent, grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Penn Hills High School. He starred as a point guard in basketball, lettering two years, serving as team captain, and earning All-East Suburban honors. He graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average and was valedictorian of the Class of 1981. Sendek's father, Herb Sr., was a teacher and basketball coach at both the high school and junior college levels.
He played college basketball at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a three-year letterman. He graduated summa cum laude in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in industrial management and earned the Carnegie Merit Scholarship.
In 1984–85, Sendek served as an assistant coach at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh.
Sendek served as a graduate assistant coach at Providence in 1985, then as an assistant coach at Providence from 1987 to 1989. He then served as an assistant coach at Kentucky under Rick Pitino from 1989 to 1993.
In 1993, Sendek accepted his first college head coaching job, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, succeeding Joby Wright, who left to become head coach at Wyoming. In his first season, 1993–94, the Redskins (now RedHawks) posted a 19–11 record and finished second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).
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