Steve Alford
Alford in December 2009 while coaching at the University of New Mexico
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| UCLA Bruins | ||||||||||
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| Position | Head coach | |||||||||
| League | Pac-12 Conference | |||||||||
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| Born |
November 23, 1964 Martinsville, Indiana |
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| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||
| Listed weight | 183 lb (83 kg) | |||||||||
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| High school | Chrysler (New Castle, Indiana) | |||||||||
| College | Indiana (1983–1987) | |||||||||
| NBA draft | 1987 / Round: 2 / Pick: 26th overall | |||||||||
| Selected by the Dallas Mavericks | ||||||||||
| Playing career | 1987–1991 | |||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||
| Number | 2, 4 | |||||||||
| Coaching career | 1991–present | |||||||||
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| 1987–1988 | Dallas Mavericks | |||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Golden State Warriors | |||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Dallas Mavericks | |||||||||
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| 1991–1995 | Manchester | |||||||||
| 1995–1999 | Southwest Missouri State | |||||||||
| 1999–2007 | Iowa | |||||||||
| 2007–2013 | New Mexico | |||||||||
| 2013–present | UCLA | |||||||||
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Stephen Todd Alford (born November 23, 1964) is an American basketball coach, former player(Indiana University), and current head coach of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team.
Alford led Indiana University to a national championship in the 1987 NCAA tournament, when Keith Smart hit the winning jump shot against Syracuse. At Indiana, he earned first team All-Big Ten honors three times and became Indiana's all-time leading scorer at the time.
Alford played four years in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors. After retiring in 1991, he became a collegiate basketball coach. He has coached at Manchester University, Southwest Missouri State University, the University of Iowa and the University of New Mexico.
Alford was born in Franklin, Indiana and grew up in New Castle.
Alford learned to count as a three-year-old by watching the numbers tick off the scoreboard in Monroe City, where his father, Sam Alford, coached the high school team. Sam often moved for various coaching jobs. Steve missed only two of his father's games, once when he had chicken pox and once when he made the regionals of the Elks Club free-throw shooting contest. When Alford was nine years old, he attended a basketball camp put on by Coach Bob Knight. Eventually the Alfords settled in New Castle, Indiana, where Steve played on the New Castle Chrysler High School basketball team with his dad as coach. Alford was known to practice shooting so much that he would wear out six or seven nets a summer and frequently forego social activities.
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