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No, before my time. Judging based on results and
Posted on: December 2, 2021 at 21:48:03 CT
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how they were viewed among their peers and in the profession.
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At SMS in Springfield Vanatta went 22-3 leading them in his first season. The following year, he produced their program record for wins in a season at 27-5 and marched through the NAIA tournament in KC’s Municipal Auditorium to collect that level's national championship. His third season saw the Bears go 24-4 and become the first school in the history of the NAIA to win back-to-back national titles. In an amazing coaching performance against Indiana State in the semi-finals, 5 of his 9 players fouled out of a 72-72 tied game with still 3 minutes remaining. The 4 remaining Bear players not only continued the game but surged ahead and held on to an 84-78 victory and advanced to the tournament finals. During his three-year tenure at SMS, Vanatta’s teams were a combined 73-11 and outscored their foes by more than 14 points a game. His career winning % at SMS is still the program record.
From there he was hired to lead Army's basketball team, posting a .682 winning % in his lone season before moving on to become the head coach at Bradley. Bradley was coming off a NCAA tourney championship game appearance, but in his first season Vanatta led them to a 7-19 record. Can't say that I understand how, but they still managed to snag one of the 32 bids to the NCAA tournament that season becoming the team with the worst record in tourney history. Not discouraged, they still advanced to the NCAA Regional Finals before bowing out. After one more season at Bradley, Vanatta moved on to take the Memphis job.
His first Memphis squad posted a record of 24-6 with wins over #3 Louisville and #20 W. Kentucky. In an era when the NIT was still equally prestigious to the NCAA tourney, Vanatta would lead his Tigers to the NIT championship game where they would lose 84-83 to the team he put together at his former program Bradley in the title game. Vanatta led Memphis to a combined record of 109-34 over six seasons and 4 postseason births during a highly successful tenure whereby he is still the Memphis program's leader in fewest games required to reach 100 victories (ahead of both Pastner and Calipari).
He brought an exciting and fast paced brand of basketball to MU, and while his initial season saw only a 1 game improvement on his predecessor the following 2 seasons were both over .500, the first such above .500 examples for the Tigers in the prior 8 years. Mississippi State offered Vanatta their head coaching position in an attempt to lure him away from MU, but he withdrew his name from consideration and remained in Columbia. And then things fell completely apart.
from previously compiled post:
At SMS in Springfield Vanatta went 22-3 leading them in his first season. The following year, he produced their program record for wins in a season at 27-5 and marched through the NAIA tournament in KC’s Municipal Auditorium to collect that level's national championship. His third season saw the Bears go 24-4 and become the first school in the history of the NAIA to win back-to-back national titles. In an amazing coaching performance against Indiana State in the semi-finals, 5 of his 9 players fouled out of a 72-72 tied game with still 3 minutes remaining. The 4 remaining Bear players not only continued the game but surged ahead and held on to an 84-78 victory and advanced to the tournament finals. During his three-year tenure at SMS, Vanatta’s teams were a combined 73-11 and outscored their foes by more than 14 points a game. His career winning % at SMS is still the program record.
From there he was hired to lead Army's basketball team, posting a .682 winning % in his lone season before moving on to become the head coach at Bradley. Bradley was coming off a NCAA tourney championship game appearance, but in his first season Vanatta led them to a 7-19 record. Can't say that I understand how, but they still managed to snag one of the 32 bids to the NCAA tournament that season becoming the team with the worst record in tourney history. Not discouraged, they still advanced to the NCAA Regional Finals before bowing out. After one more season at Bradley, Vanatta moved on to take the Memphis job.
His first Memphis squad posted a record of 24-6 with wins over #3 Louisville and #20 W. Kentucky. In an era when the NIT was still equally prestigious to the NCAA tourney, Vanatta would lead his Tigers to the NIT championship game where they would lose 84-83 to the team he put together at his former program Bradley in the title game. Vanatta led Memphis to a combined record of 109-34 over six seasons and 4 postseason births during a highly successful tenure whereby he is still the Memphis program's leader in fewest games required to reach 100 victories (ahead of both Pastner and Calipari).
He brought an exciting and fast paced brand of basketball to MU, and while his initial season saw only a 1 game improvement on his predecessor the following 2 seasons were both over .500, the first such above .500 examples for the Tigers in the prior 8 years. Mississippi State offered Vanatta their head coaching position in an attempt to lure him away from MU, but he withdrew his name from consideration and remained in Columbia. And then things fell completely apart.
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No, before my time. Judging based on results and - FIJItiger MU - 12/2 21:48:03