Tom Asbury
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| Tom Asbury | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Pepperdine | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Born | July 14, 1945 | |
| Place of birth |  Denver, Colorado |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Championships | ||
| WCC Tournament Championship (1991, 1992, 1994) | ||
| Awards | ||
| WCC Coach of the Year (1991, 1992) | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1964-1967 | Wyoming | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1976-1979 1979-1988 1988-1994 1994-2000 2003-2007 2008-present |
Wyoming (asst.) Pepperdine (asst.) Pepperdine Kansas State Alabama (asst.) Pepperdine |
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Tom Asbury has gone back to Pepperdine University as head coach for the men's basketball team. He was an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama. He was previously the head coach at Pepperdine University and Kansas State University.
He was successful in his first stint at Pepperdine, becoming the conference coach of the year twice. Asbury compiled a 125-59 record at Pepperdine, and took the Waves to the NCAA tournament in 1991, 1992 and 1994, as well as two NIT appearances and three regular-season WCC titles.
His success landed him the Head Coaching job at Kansas State University. He coached the Wildcats for six seasons making the NCAA Tournament once and the NIT Tournament twice. However, his final season ended in 1999-00 at Kansas State with a 9-19 record and a 2-14 conference record. He was fired and later returned to coaching as an assistant at the University of Alabama under former pupil Mark Gottfried. Mark Fox, the head coach at the University of Nevada, is another former Asbury assistant having coached with him at Kansas State.
Sadly, Asbury's eldest daughter, Stacey, passed away at the age of 22 from her struggles with anorexia.
[edit] Coaching Record at Kansas State
| School | Season | Wins | Losses | Postseason |
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| Kansas State | 1994-95 | 12 | 15 | None |
| Kansas State | 1995-96 | 17 | 12 | NCAA First Round |
| Kansas State | 1996-97 | 10 | 17 | None |
| Kansas State | 1997-98 | 17 | 12 | NIT First Round |
| Kansas State | 1998-99 | 20 | 13 | NIT First Round |
| Kansas State | 1999-00 | 9 | 19 | None |
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