Lou Henson
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 10, 1932 Okay, Oklahoma |
| Playing career | |
| 1951–1953 | Connors JC |
| 1953–1955 | New Mexico A&M |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1956–1958 | Las Cruces HS (JV) |
| 1958–1962 | Las Cruces HS (varsity) |
| 1962–1966 | Hardin-Simmons |
| 1966–1975 | New Mexico State |
| 1975–1996 | Illinois |
| 1997–2005 | New Mexico State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 779–422 (.649) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (1970, 1989) Big Ten Conference regular season championship (1984) Big West Conference regular season championship (1999) Big West Tournament championship (1999) |
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| Awards | |
| Big Ten Coach of the Year (1993) | |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2015 |
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Louis Ray Henson (born January 10, 1932) is a former college basketball coach. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall Henson won 779 games, putting him in sixteenth place on the all-time list. Henson is also one of only four NCAA coaches to have amassed at least 200 total wins at two institutions. On February 17, 2015, Henson was selected as a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. In August 2015, prior to the reopening of the newly renovated State Farm Center at the University of Illinois, the hardwood floor was dedicated and renamed Lou Henson Court in his honor. The court at the Pan American Center at New Mexico State University is also named in his honor.
Born in Okay, Oklahoma, Henson graduated from Okay High School in 1951 and matriculated at Connors Junior College before transferring to New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico A&M, now New Mexico State University). He lettered in basketball for the New Mexico A&M Aggies from 1953 to 1955 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and master's degree in 1956.
Henson began his coaching career at Las Cruces High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1956. After two years as junior varsity coach, Henson was head coach of the varsity team from 1958 to 1962 and won state championships in 1959, 1960, and 1961.
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