Dan Monson
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| Dan Monson | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Long Beach State | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Team record | 6-18 | |
| Born | October 6, 1961 | |
| Place of birth |  Spokane, Washington |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 170-123 (.580) | |
| Championships | ||
| WCC Tournament Championship (1999) WCC Regular Season Championship (1998, 1999) |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1986–1988 1988–1997 1997–1999 1999–2006 2007–present |
UAB (asst.) Gonzaga (asst.) Gonzaga Minnesota Long Beach State |
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Daniel Lloyd "Dan" Monson (born October 6, 1961 in Spokane, Washington) is an American basketball coach. He was hired as the head coach of the Long Beach State 49ers on April 7, 2007. Previously he was head coach at the University of Minnesota for over seven seasons, from July 24, 1999, to November 30, 2006. Before coaching the Gophers, he was the head coach at Gonzaga for two seasons, where he had spent the previous nine seasons as an assistant coach.
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[edit] Early years
Dan Monson is the son of college basketball coach Don Monson. He spent most of his early years in eastern Washington, where his father was a successful high school head coach in Cheney and Pasco for 18 seasons. At age 14, the family moved from Pasco to East Lansing, Michigan, where Don was an assistant coach for Jud Heathcote at Michigan State for two seasons.
They moved to Moscow, Idaho, after his sophomore year in the spring of 1978, when his father became the head coach at Idaho. Dan graduated from Moscow High School in 1980 and played college football a few blocks away at the University of Idaho. He suffered a knee injury that ended his playing career, and focused on coaching; he graduated from Idaho with a degree in secondary education (mathematics) in 1985.
[edit] Coaching career
After graduation from college, Dan Monson was a high school coach in Oregon City, Oregon for a season, then became a collegiate graduate assistant under Gene Bartow at UAB in 1986, where he earned a master's degree in education.
In 1988, after two seasons in Birmingham, he was hired by Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald as an assistant coach at Gonzaga back in Spokane. In 1994, Monson was promoted to associate head coach, and became Gonzaga's head coach upon the retirement of Fitzgerald in March 1997, at the age of 35. While at the helm at Gonzaga, the Bulldogs compiled a 52-17 (.754) record. The 1999 team brought Gonzaga basketball to national prominence with an impressive run in NCAA tournament. In the West regional, the 10th seeded "Zags" defeated 7th-seed Minnesota and 2nd-seed Stanford in the Seattle sub-regional, and 6th-seed Florida in the Sweet Sixteen round in Phoenix. Gonzaga advanced to the regional final (Elite Eight), taking the region's top seed, and eventual national champion, Connecticut down to the last minute, losing by five points.
Dan Monson became one of the more sought after coaching candidates in college basketball in the spring of 1999. After Gonzaga's improbable run to the Elite Eight, he was offered the head coaching position at the University of Minnesota, which he accepted. Mark Yudof, then president of the University, was hoping that Monson would be able to help the program move past the scandals of previous head coach Clem Haskins.[1] In the previous season, Gonzaga had defeated Minnesota in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Assistant coach Mark Few succeeded Monson at Gonzaga. Interestingly, Monson also had ties to Minnesota already, as his father Don was born in rural Menahga, Minnesota.
In April 2002, Monson was courted by the University of Washington to run the Washington Huskies men's team and return to his home state of Washington. Monson initially accepted the offer presented by Huskies AD Barbara Hedges.[2] The Minnesota athletic department under Tom Moe convinced Monson to change his mind and stay on with Minnesota.[3] In the end, Monson decided to return to Minnesota because he didn't feel he had given enough time to the rebuilding effort at Minnesota and hadn't yet attained enough success with the team.[4]
Dealing with the fallout from the academic scandals of the Clem Haskins era, it was several years before Monson was able to recruit on equal footing with other Big Ten coaches. He led the Gophers to one NCAA Tournament and 4 NIT appearances in his tenure as Gophers coach. On November 30, 2006, Dan Monson resigned as head coach of Minnesota after a 2-5 start. Assistant coach Jim Molinari was appointed interim head coach before Tubby Smith was named the new head coach after the season.
Monson compiled a 118-106 (.527) record with the Gophers, giving him an overall career record of 170-123 (.580) as a head coach. On April 6, 2007 Monson was named the head coach of the men's basketball team at Long Beach State.[5]
Monson has also coached internationally; he was an assistant coach on the 1999 World University Games team and the 2004 USA U-20 team.
[edit] Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Gonzaga (West Coast Conference) (1997 — 1999) | |||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Gonzaga | 24-10 | 10-4 | 1st | NIT 2nd Round | ||||
| 1998–1999 | Gonzaga | 28-7 | 12-2 | 1st | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
| Gonzaga: | 52-17 | 22-6 | |||||||
| Minnesota (Big Ten Conference) (1999 — 2006) | |||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Minnesota | 12-16 | 4-12 | 10th | |||||
| 2000–2001 | Minnesota | 18-14 | 5-11 | 9th | NIT 2nd Round | ||||
| 2001–2002 | Minnesota | 18-13 | 9-7 | 6th | NIT 2nd Round | ||||
| 2002–2003 | Minnesota | 19-14 | 8-8 | T-6th | NIT Fourth Place | ||||
| 2003–2004 | Minnesota | 12-18 | 3-13 | T-10th | |||||
| 2004–2005 | Minnesota | 21-11 | 10-6 | T-4th | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2005–2006 | Minnesota | 16-15 | 5-11 | 10th | NIT 2nd Round | ||||
| 2006–2007 | Minnesota | 2-5 | 0-0 | N/A | |||||
| Minnesota: | 118-106 | 44-68 | |||||||
| Long Beach State (Big West Conference) (2007 — present) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Long Beach State | 6-18 | 3-8 | ||||||
| Long Beach State: | 6-18 | 3-8 | |||||||
| Total: | 176-141 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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[edit] References
- ^ Khoo, Michael. "Monson's Message: Go to Class." Minnesota Public Radio, July 26, 1999. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199907/26_khoom_monson/index.shtml
- ^ Withers, Bud. "For Monson, no curing the bug to coach again." Seattle Times, Feb. 8, 2007. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/collegesports/2003561955_withersnational08.html
- ^ Hartman, Sid. "Monson probably wishes he had taken that Washington job." Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Dec. 1, 2006. http://www.startribune.com/507/story/846511.html
- ^ Withers, "For Monson, no curing..."
- ^ Associated Press. "Monson hired as Long Beach State coach." USA Today, April 7, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2007-04-07-2136805416_x.htm
[edit] External links
- Gonzaga Bulldogs - official site
- Univ. of Minnesota Gophers Sports.com - official site - Dan Monson's bio
- USA Basketball.com - Dan Monson - bio
- "For Monson, no curing the bug to coach again" - The Seattle Times - 08-Feb-2007
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