Tom Asbury (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Tom Asbury is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the Pepperdine University 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 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 Georgia, is another former Asbury assistant having coached with him at Kansas State.