Lon Kruger
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Oklahoma |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 121–75 (.617) |
| Annual salary | $2,750,000 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 19, 1952 Silver Lake, Kansas |
| Playing career | |
| 1971–1974 | Kansas State |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–1977 | Pittsburg State (assistant) |
| 1977–1978 | Kansas State (assistant) |
| 1979–1982 | Kansas State (assistant) |
| 1982–1986 | Texas–Pan American |
| 1986–1990 | Kansas State |
| 1990–1996 | Florida |
| 1996–2000 | Illinois |
| 2000-2003 | Atlanta Hawks |
| 2003–2004 | New York Knicks (assistant) |
| 2004–2011 | UNLV |
| 2011–present | Oklahoma |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 600–379 (college) 69–122 (NBA) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2x NCAA Regional championship - Final Four (1994, 2016) 2× MWC Tournament championship (2007, 2008) Big 10 regular season championship (1998) |
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| Awards | |
| 2× SEC Coach of the Year (1992, 1994) MWC Coach of the Year (2008) Big 12 Coach of the Year (2014) 2× Big Eight Player of the Year (1973, 1974) |
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Lonnie Duane Kruger (born August 19, 1952) is an American college and professional basketball coach who is currently the men's basketball head coach of the University of Oklahoma. Kruger played college basketball for Kansas State University. He has served as the head coach of the University of Texas–Pan American, Kansas State, the University of Florida, the University of Illinois, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Kruger is one of only two coaches ever (the other being Tubby Smith) to lead five different programs to the NCAA Tournament. His teams have participated in 17 NCAA Tournaments, including 2 Final Fours (1994 with Florida; 2016 with Oklahoma).
Lon Kruger was born and raised in Silver Lake, Kansas. As a point guard, Kruger led the Kansas State Wildcats to back-to-back Big Eight championships in 1972 and 1973 under coach Jack Hartman. Kruger was named the Big Eight Player of the Year in 1973 and 1974, after being named the Big Eight Sophomore of the Year in 1972. He was also a shortstop on the Kansas State baseball team.
As basketball coach of the Wildcats, he led K-State to the NCAA Tournament in each of his four seasons as head coach and the Elite Eight in 1988—a team featuring future NBA players Mitch Richmond and Steve Henson—before losing to arch-rival Kansas Jayhawks, the eventual national champion.
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