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STEVE ALFORD UCLA Head Men’S Basketball Coach Alma Mater: Indiana ’87 Career Record: 528-275 (25 Seasons) Division I Record: 450-246 (21 Seasons)

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STEVE ALFORD UCLA Head Men’S Basketball Coach Alma Mater: Indiana ’87 Career Record: 528-275 (25 Seasons) Division I Record: 450-246 (21 Seasons) STEVE ALFORD UCLA Head Men’s Basketball Coach Alma Mater: Indiana ’87 Career Record: 528-275 (25 seasons) Division I Record: 450-246 (21 seasons) Steve Alford has guided UCLA to a 65-40 overall record in three In 25 seasons as a head coach, Alford’s teams have qualified for seasons as UCLA’s head coach, helping lead the Bruins to consecutive the postseason 19 times, including nine NCAA Division I Tournament Sweet 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2014 and 2015. berths. Alford has led his teams to the postseason in 14 of the last Alford will enter his fourth season leading the Bruins’ program in 16 seasons and has reached the 20-win plateau in 13 of his 21 2016-17, his 26th season as a college basketball head coach. years at the NCAA Division I level. Alford has coached his teams to at least 28 wins in three of the last five seasons and to at least 22 During his first two seasons in Westwood, Alford led UCLA to back- victories in eight of the previous nine years. to-back Sweet 16 appearances in addition to helping the Bruins win the 2014 Pac-12 Tournament title. UCLA went 22-14 in 2015, Alford has recorded more NCAA victories (528) as a collegiate his second season at the helm, before sending Kevon Looney and head coach, age 51 or younger, than any other head coach in the Norman Powell to the NBA. nation. Alford, who turned 51 on Nov. 23, 2015, began his collegiate coaching career at the age of 26 at Manchester College. Alford helped UCLA send seven players to the NBA through his first two seasons. Looney and Powell were drafted in 2015, while Jordan Alford guided New Mexico to postseason appearances all six years at Adams, Kyle Anderson and Zach LaVine were selected in the first New Mexico, including three trips to the NCAA Tournament (2010, round of the 2014 NBA Draft. In addition, twin brothers Travis Wear 2012, 2013). His teams at New Mexico won at least 22 games in and David Wear competed in the NBA in 2014-15 as non-drafted each of six seasons, securing more victories (155), a higher winning free agents. percentage (.749) and more regular-season conference titles (4) than any previous New Mexico head coach after six seasons. During his first year as UCLA’s head coach (2013-14), UCLA advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 and won its first Pac- Alford earned Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year honors 12 Tournament title since 2008. Additionally, the Bruins produced in three of the final five seasons at New Mexico (2009, 2010, 2013). three first-round NBA draft selections for the second time in school Three of his players at New Mexico secured Mountain West Player of history (also occurred in 1979). Alford helped UCLA to a second- the Year acclaim (J.R. Giddens in 2008, Darington Hobson in 2010, place finish in the Pac-12 standings in 2014 and to a fourth-place and Kendall Williams in 2013). finish in 2015. Under Alford’s direction, New Mexico won four regular season titles Through 25 seasons as a college head coach, Alford has compiled in five years (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013), a streak matched only a 528-275 (.658) overall record. Alford was named the 13th head by Kansas and Gonzaga. New Mexico won the conference regular coach in UCLA men’s basketball history on March 30, 2013, after season and tournament titles in 2012 and 2013, becoming one of having excelled the previous six seasons at New Mexico. five schools in the country to make that claim. New Mexico achieved its two highest single-season win totals with Alford at the helm (30 Alford’s 28 single-season wins in 2013-14 tied the school record wins in 2012, 29 wins in 2013). Both the 2010 and 2013 teams for most victories by a coach in his first season at UCLA (Gene secured No. 3-seeds in the NCAA Tournament, tying UNM’s record Bartow went 28-4 in 1975-76). The Bruins averaged 81.2 points for the highest-seeded team. per game, the program’s highest scoring average since 1997-98 (83.1 ppg), and finished the season with the nation’s 11th-highest Alford’s teams at New Mexico had similar success in the classroom. scoring average. He graduated 12 of his 13 seniors, including all three seniors from his final team in 2012-13. New Mexico had compiled a program With consecutive Sweet 16 berths in his first two seasons, Alford record 11 consecutive semesters of a 2.7 grade-point average or became the fourth coach in program history to have led his first better through his final season in Albuquerque. two teams to NCAA regional semifinals (also in that group are Gene Bartow, Gary Cunningham and Steve Lavin). UCLA was one of six Alford arrived at New Mexico after eight seasons as the head teams in the nation to have advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2013-14 coach at the University of Iowa (2000-07), where he compiled a and 2014-15 (along with Arizona, Louisville, Kentucky, Michigan State 152-106 record. He helped guide the Hawkeyes to a school-record and Wisconsin). seven consecutive winning seasons in addition to six postseason appearances (three NCAA Tournaments) and two Big Ten Conference A four-year standout at Indiana (1984-87) and member of the Tournament titles (2001 and 2006). Hoosiers’ 1987 NCAA Championship team, Alford competed in the NBA for four seasons before embarking on his career as a collegiate As Iowa’s head coach, Alford helped engineer three seasons with head coach. He has served as a Division I head coach the past 21 20-plus victories, highlighted by a 25-win season in 2006. Iowa’s years. After a four-year stint at Manchester College (1992-95), 25 victories that year stand as the second-highest single-season Alford coached at Missouri State (1996-99), Iowa (2000-07) and win total in program history, five shy of the school-record 30 wins New Mexico (2008-13). in 1987 under head coach Tom Davis. Alford is responsible for the UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL Hawkeyes’ two highest single-season win totals since 1987 (25 wins During his collegiate career at Indiana, Alford started 120 of 125 in 2006, 23 wins in 2001). games, helping the Hoosiers compile a 92-35 record over four seasons. Playing under head coach Bob Knight, Alford served as Prior to his service at Iowa, Alford helped engineer the most successful team captain in 1987 when Indiana went 30-4 and won the NCAA postseason run in school history at Missouri State University (then Championship. known to as Southwest Missouri State). His four-year tenure with the Bears was highlighted by the program’s sixth NCAA Division I Alford concluded his college career as Indiana’s all-time scoring Tournament appearance in 1999, Missouri State’s first-ever trip to leader with 2,438 points (that mark was eclipsed by Calbert Cheaney the “Sweet 16” in Alford’s final season at the helm. in 1992-93). He became the first player to win the Indiana MVP four times and led the Hoosiers in scoring all four years. He finished his Missouri State advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament for just career as Indiana’s all-time leader in steals (178 steals, now ranks the sixth time in school history that year, entering the field as the East second) and three-point field goal percentage (53.0 percent). Alford Regional’s No. 13-seeded team. Alford’s team defeated No. 5-seed was a consensus first-team All-America selection and the Big Ten Wisconsin (43-32) and No. 4-seed Tennessee (81-51) to advance to Conference’s MVP as a senior (1987). the Sweet 16 before losing to top-seeded Duke, 78-61, in the East Regional Semifinal. Alford earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in each of his final three seasons and also captured All-America acclaim as a junior. He was Missouri State finished the season 22-11, as Alford had guided the named to the NIT All-Tournament Team as a sophomore when the Bears to their second 20-plus win season in three years. Prior to Hoosiers finished second to UCLA. His career free throw percentage Alford’s arrival in the fall of 1995, Missouri State had not advanced to of .897 (535-596) ranks ninth-best in NCAA history (was fourth-best the NCAA Tournament since 1992. Alford guided Missouri State to a when he graduated). Alford led the nation in free throw percentage as 24-9 record in 1997, including a second-place finish in the Missouri a freshman (.913, 137-150). Valley Conference, as the Bears ended their season in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Missouri State’s 24 victories that season In 1997, Alford was inducted into the Indiana University Athletics Hall marked the program’s highest single-season win total since finishing of Fame, and in 2001 he was one of 15 players selected to Indiana’s 28-6 in 1987. All-Century Team. He was one of five players named to ESPN’s Big Ten Conference Silver Anniversary Team in 2004. In the Legends of In 1992, Alford joined the collegiate coaching ranks at Manchester College Basketball by The Sporting News, Alford was No. 35 on the College (NCAA Division III program in North Manchester, Ind., now list of the 100 greatest NCAA Division I college basketball players.
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