Yanni Hufnagel
| Sport(s) | Men's basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Assistant coach |
| Team | Nevada |
| Conference | Mountain West |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 26, 1982 Scarsdale, New York |
| Alma mater |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2007–2009 | Oklahoma (graduate asst.) |
| 2009–2013 | Harvard (asst.) |
| 2013–2014 | Vanderbilt (asst.) |
| 2014–2016 | California (asst.) |
| 2016–present | Nevada (asst.) |
Yanni Hufnagel (born August 26, 1982) is an American college basketball coach. He is an assistant coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball team under Eric Musselman.
He previously served as an assistant— for the California Golden Bears, Vanderbilt Commodores, and Harvard Crimson. Hufnagel is regarded as one of the top recruiters in college basketball.
Hufnagel, son of Joni and Thierry Hufnagel, was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and is Jewish. He has a younger brother, Alec. He played defense for the Scarsdale High School Raiders in boys lacrosse, and was the team captain. He was cut from Scarsdale High School's varsity basketball team as a junior, after playing for the junior varsity as a sophomore, and then took on a color commentating position for the team's games on a school local access cable TV channel.
He attended Pennsylvania State University for one year, where he was recruited for lacrosse, and was a defenseman on the school's lacrosse team as a freshman. Hufnagel then transferred to Cornell University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations in 2006.
Hufnagel completed a summer internship with the New Jersey Nets. He then attended the University of Oklahoma, where he served as a graduate assistant coach for the Sooners men's basketball team, and was credited with helping develop Blake Griffin. At Oklahoma, Hufnagel earned a master's degree in Adult and Higher Education with an Emphasis in Intercollegiate Athletics Administration in 2010.
In June 2009, Hufnagel joined the Harvard Crimson men's basketball program as an assistant coach and recruiter under Tommy Amaker. In 2011, he was voted by his peers in a CBS Sports survey as the mid-major assistant coach most likely to "make it big time due to his recruiting ability." He was named to a CBS Sports college basketball "dream team" of assistant coaches prior to the 2012-13 season, and they noted that he was "one of the most relentless and energetic recruiters in the game." He is also noted for his role in helping to develop Jeremy Lin and Wesley Saunders at Harvard. In Hufnagel’s four years with Harvard, the school went 90-30.
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