He'll have a tall task to match the success of the outgoing head coach. Stevens went during his six seasons at Butler and chose to continue his coaching career with the Boston Celtics rather than come back for a seventh season in college. Stevens turned an occasional NCAA tournament darling into a mid-major powerhouse, taking the program to the tournament final twice and facilitating the success that has the Bulldogs as one of the newest members of the basketball-favoring Big East.
Miller's experience with several high-level college head coaches has helped his ascension to his new job, but his experience as a point guard will also be helpful moving forward. During his playing days, Miller averaged Miller had 18 points to put Butler through to the next round.
Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Your sports. One of Holtmann's assistants has already accepted a job on the Buckeyes' staff, and it's unclear if Johnson and Pedon will follow Holtmann to Ohio State. Panthers athletic director Amanda Braun said the search for Jordan's successor will begin immediately. Assistant coach Todd Townsend, who was on Marquette's Final Four team, played for and worked under then-coach Tom Crean and could be a top candidate.
We are confident we will continue to build on his success and look forward to the future. Facebook Twitter Email. LaVall Jordan set to be new basketball coach at Butler. Associated Press.
Share your feedback to help improve our site! Hinkle was in 41 years with Hinkle as head coach. Butler dipped from to but didn't have back-to-back losing seasons again until Hinkle was in 32 years as the football coach. Add in his time as baseball coach and he won more than 1, games. Butler Fieldhouse was renamed in Hinkle's honor in Page was one of the early basketball stars, known for his defense though also contributing significantly on offense for three national champions at the University of Chicago.
He was as the basketball coach at Chicago when he resigned after winning the Big Ten title and was hired at Butler. He not only led the team to a record in six years — including the AAU national championship — he hired Tony Hinkle as an assistant in and was instrumental in the construction of Butler Fieldhouse now, of course, Hinkle Fieldhouse , beginning in It would not open until , two years after Page left.
He was also as Butler's football coach. According to "Underdawgs," Page abruptly resigned from Butler in He had significantly increased the athletic budget and speculation centered on his quitting because he was going to have to relinquish control of the fund.
He became the football coach at Indiana, but went just Page would also coach basketball at Idaho and football at Butler, Indiana and Albertson College, recording an overall record of He was as a college baseball coach.
Pat Page deserves credit for truly starting Butler basketball. Tony Hinkle, of course, was Butler basketball. He was in 11 seasons as coach and had an almost immediate impact. Though he wasn't successful in Nebraska, Collier returned to Butler as athletic director in , bringing with him a love of the program established during his playing career. Another Butler graduate. Another son of a coach. Lickliter was the choice to replace Thad Matta in and demonstrated he was ready for the job Butler went , earning its first national ranking in 53 seasons, beating Purdue for the first time since and then Indiana.
But the Bulldogs received the news that the mother of player Rob Walls had died the night before the Horizon League tournament opener. The Bulldogs went the next season and reached the Sweet 16, knocking off Mississippi State and Louisville before falling to Oklahoma.
Butler fell off the next two seasons, going , but returned to the NCAA tournament in and reached the Sweet 16 again, losing to eventual champion Florida and finishing Lickliter was hired by Iowa, setting the stage for the man who is No. Holtmann didn't have quite the Butler pedigree his predecessors did — only joining as an assistant for Brandon Miller— but he established himself quickly as a worthy successor for the Bulldogs.
The program struggled under Miller, going in its first season in the Big East, and when he took a medical leave of absence in October , Holtmann served as interim coach then was promoted to the full-time position when it was clear Miller would not return. Matta began the streak of assistants being promoted and maintaining the program's success. He had played on Collier's first team and was promoted shortly after Collier left for Nebraska. They would lose to Arizona in the second round and Matta was off to Xavier and then Ohio State, where he coached until this season and was replaced, of course, by Holtmann.
Hedden, a long-time assistant at Butler, went in two seasons during World War II while Hinkle was serving in the Navy and coaching the Great Lakes Navy team to an record in football. His position here is more a reflection of his long-time service to the program and a winning record, along with most of the rest of the options being short-term coaches or ones with sub-.
Wingard was in two seasons as Butler's basketball coach, though he was better known as a football coach, going with the Bulldogs. He took over the LSU football program in and went , losing in the Bacardi Bowl, according to www.
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