Scott Nagy

Scott Nagy
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team South Dakota State
Biographical details
Born June 7, 1966
Abilene, Texas
Playing career
1984–1988 Delta State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1990
1990–1993
1993–1995
1995–present		 Illinois (asst.)
South Dakota State (asst.)
SIU Edwardsville (asst.)
South Dakota State
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

Summit Regular Season Championship (2013)
Summit Tournament Championship (2012, 2013)

Scott Nagy (born June 7, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and the current South Dakota State Jackrabbits head men's basketball coach. He has served as head coach at South Dakota State since 1995.

Born in Abilene, Texas,[1] Nagy attended St. Matthews grade school in Champaign, Illinois and Champaign Centennial high school, which he graduated from in 1984. His father is Dick Nagy, who was a University of Illinois assistant basketball coach under Lou Henson.

Nagy played basketball collegiately at Delta State University, where he currently holds school records for most career games played and most assists in a career (549), season (234) and game (15).[1]

After graduation, Nagy became a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois for two seasons before taking a full-time assistant's job at South Dakota State, which he held for three years. After two seasons as an assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Nagy returned to South Dakota State to take over as head coach in May 1995.

Nagy led the Jackrabbits to 20-win seasons during eight of his first nine years at the helm of the program at the Division II level. After the 2004 season, South Dakota State began the transition to Division I.[1]

The 2007–08 season was Nagy's first as a head coach in a Division I conference, as the Jackrabbits joined The Summit League on June 1, 2007.

In 2011–12, South Dakota State won the Summit League Tournament championship, qualifying them for their first ever berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Head Coaching Record

Season Coach Overall Conference Standing Postseason
South Dakota State (North Central Conference – Division II) (1995–2004)
1995–96 South Dakota State 24–5 15–3 1st Sweet Sixteen
1996–97 South Dakota State 25–5 14–4 1st Elite Eight
1997–98 South Dakota State 26–3 16–2 1st Sweet Sixteen
1998–99 South Dakota State 17–10 9–9 4th
1999–00 South Dakota State 21–9 12–6 2nd First Round
2000–01 South Dakota State 22–7 13–5 2nd First Round
2001–02 South Dakota State 24–6 15–3 1st Sweet Sixteen
2002–03 South Dakota State 24–7 12–4 2nd Second Round
2003–04 South Dakota State 27–7 9–5 2nd Second Round
South Dakota State: 210–59 115–41
South Dakota State (Division I Independent) (2004–2007)
2004–05 South Dakota State 10–18
2005–06 South Dakota State 9–20
2006–07 South Dakota State 6–24
South Dakota State: 25–62
South Dakota State (The Summit League) (2007–present)
2007–08 South Dakota State 8–21 3–15 10th
2008–09 South Dakota State 13–20 7–11 7th
2009–10 South Dakota State 14–16 10–8 4th
2010–11 South Dakota State 19–12 10–8 5th
2011–12 South Dakota State 27–7 15–3 2nd NCAA Second Round
2012–13 South Dakota State 25–9 13–3 T-1st NCAA Second Round
2013–14 South Dakota State 19–13 10–4 2nd CBI First Round
2014–15 South Dakota State 24–11 12–4 T-1st NIT Second Round
South Dakota State: 148–99 80–56
Total: 361–221

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Scott Nagy's 2006–2007 Media Guide bio PDF (5.47 MiB), South Dakota State University, released June 5, 2007