Bob Daniels (basketball)
Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1966–1967 | Kentucky Wesleyan (Asst.) |
1967–1972 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
1972–1977 | Marshall |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1968, 1969 |
Bob Daniels was an American basketball coach. Collegiately he played for the Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame Coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals.[1] He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965-66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for five season, all five seasons he took the team to the Division II NCAA Tournament and won the second and third National Championship for the college. After Kentucky Wesleyan he was the Thundering Herd coach beginning in the 1972–73 season for the NIT appearance.
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers (Independent) (1967–1972) | |||||||||
1967-68 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 28-3 | NCAA Div II Champion | ||||||
1968-69 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 28-5 | NCAA Div II Champion | ||||||
1969-70 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 18-10 | NCAA Div II Sweet 16 | ||||||
1970-71 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 22-8 | NCAA Div II Fourth Place | ||||||
1971-72 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 17-10 | NCAA Div II Round of 32 | ||||||
Kentucky Wesleyan: | 113-36 | ||||||||
Marshall Thundering Herd (Independent) (1972–1976) | |||||||||
1972-73 | Marshall | 20-7 | NIT First Round | ||||||
1973-74 | Marshall | 17-9 | |||||||
1974-75 | Marshall | 13-13 | |||||||
1975-76 | Marshall | 13-14 | |||||||
Marshall Thundering Herd (Southern) (1976–1977) | |||||||||
1976-77 | Marshall | 8-19 | 2-1 | 8th | |||||
Marshall: | 71-62 | ||||||||
Total: | 184-98 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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