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Tom Asbury

Assistant coach


Published: Friday, October 10, 2008 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 4:30 p.m.

Full Name: Tom Asbury

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Title: Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach

Date Hired: April 9, 2003

No. Seasons With the Tide: 1 season completed

Duties: On the floor coaching; scouting; monitoring successful academic progress of players

Hometown: Denver, Colorado

Birthdate/City: July 14, 1945, Denver, Colorado

Family: Married the former Carlie Ann Stoltz on April 10, 1971; Carlie is a graduate of the University of Iowa where she majored in math; father of two daughters, Megan; and Stacey, deceased

High School:

  • 1963 graduate of George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado

  • Earned varsity letters in basketball, football and track

    College:

    Wyoming, 1968: Graduate studies from Colorado in 1974

    Collegiate Career Highlights:

  • Three-year letter winner at Wyoming (1964-67)

  • All-Western Athletic Conference

  • Team captain his senior season

  • Wyoming won the WAC Championship his senior season and played eventual national champions, UCLA, in the NCAA regional

  • UCLA’s team included Kareem Abdul -Jabbar; Asbury & Wyoming faced defending national champions Texas Western (now UTEP) in the NCAA consolation game

  • Asbury was All-Western Athletic Conference

    Coaching Experience:

  • 1976-79, Assistant Coach, Wyoming;

  • 1979-88, Assistant Coach, Pepperdine;

  • 1988-94, Head Coach, Pepperdine (125-59)

  • 1994-2000, Head Coach, Kansas State (76-69)

    Coaching Honors:

  • West Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 1991 and 1992

  • Four NCCA appearances (3 at Pepperdine in 1991, 1992 and 1994) and one at Kansas State (1996) and four NIT appearances, 2 (1989 and 1993) at Pepperdine and 2 (1998, 1999) at Kansas State

  • Won three straight West Coast Conference regular season titles and three conference tournament championships at Pepperdine & finished 2nd the other 3 years he coached there

  • Had four 20-win seasons of the 6 he was at Pepperdine

  • Head coach for West Team at U.S. Olympic Festival in 1994

  • His K-State team led the nation in opponents’ field goal percentage, holding them to a national low of 37.1 percent shooting; named 1993 District Coach of the Year (Pepperdine) by Basketball Times.

    Post-College Play:

    1967-68, Played in the ABA for the Denver Rockets (later became the Nuggets of the ABA)

    Miscellaneous Career Notes:

  • Won 38 straight West Coast Conference games and a remarkable 25 straight road games

  • Coached NBA’s Doug Christie at Pepperdine

  • Among his coaching strengths has been his teams’ defensive play. In 1999 Kansas State led the nation in field goal percentage defense and his Kansas State teams led their conference in field goal percentage for four years in a row, in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999; 2004 NCAA tournament appearance at Alabama.


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