Mike Hanks
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Mike Hanks is an American college basketball coach. He was head coach for Saint Leo University, Manchester Giants, University of South Alabama and Samford University. He also served as an assistant under Bob Knight at Indiana.
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[edit] Coaching career
[edit] Samford
Hanks was head coach at Samford from 1981 to 1984 and compiled a 46-38 (.548) record.[1]
[edit] South Alabama
From 1984 to 1987, Hanks prowled the sidelines as head coach at South Alabama and garnered a 45-43 (.511) record.
In March of 1987, Mike Hanks refused to resign as South Alabama's basketball coach with two years remaining in his contract and refused other options offered by the school. He was dismissed by Joe Gottfried, the school's athletic director. Hanks was in the third year of a five-year contract. In Hanks's three seasons at South Alabama his teams finished 15-13, 16-16 and 14-14.[2]
[edit] Manchester Giants
The owners of the British Basketball League Manchester Giants were putting together a new look team and brought in United States college coach Mike Hanks for the start of the '94-95 season. Although they only finished fourth and fifth in Coach Hanks' two seasons, the Giants were Play-off runners-up, losing the Wembley Championship Final to Worthing by a narrow 77-73.[3]
[edit] Saint Leo
For five seasons (1996-2001) Hanks was the head coach at Saint Leo and compiled a 66-70 (.485) record. Hanks tendered his resignation in March of 2001.[4]
[edit] US National Team
On temporary assignment from Samford, Hanks served as an assistant coach to then Texas coach, Bob Weltlich for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in Cali, Colombia. [5]
In 1983 Hanks coached the USA Select Basketball Team to a 12-0 record in Asia.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ USF Names Robert McCullum Men’s Basketball Coach. ConferenceUSA.cstv.com (2003-04-18). Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ Coach is Dismissed. New York Times (1987-03-20). Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ Manchester Giants
- ^ St. Leo head coach resigns. Florida Times-Union (2001-03-02). Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ USA Men's World Championship team history. USABasketball.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ USA Basketball All-Time Men's Head Coaches. USABasketball.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
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