Bob Hoffman (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bob Hoffman (basketball)

American basketball player-coach

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1957

Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Bob Hoffman (basketball)

  • Bob Hoffman (born July 18, 1957) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at the University of Central Oklahoma.
  • He is a graduate of Putnam City High School in Warr Acres, Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee to play basketball.
  • He met his wife there and after graduation he was hired at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, Oklahoma just northwest of Oklahoma City.
  • He was then hired as the head women's basketball coach at Southern Nazarene University, where his team won the NAIA national championship in 1989.
  • From there he returned to his alma mater as men's coach for the following ten years. From OBU he was the coach at University of Texas-Pan American then back to Oklahoma where he served as an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at the University of Oklahoma until Sampson was found to have committed numerous NCAA violations.
  • After an investigation of the entire coaching staff, Hoffman was cleared by the NCAA of any wrongdoing, and parted ways with the program.
  • Prior to his role at Mercer University, Hoffman went on to coach in the American Basketball League and the NBA Development League.
  • He was hired on March 27, 2008 to replace Mark Slonaker.
  • He led Mercer to the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship as well as the University's first NCAA Tournament victory in an upset of No.
  • 6 Duke on March 21, 2014. Hoffman won his 400th game as a men's college coach when Mercer defeated Lipscomb University on January 26, 2013.
  • With the victory, Hoffman is 488–239 as a men's and women's college coach.
  • In addition, he previously served as head coach of the Arkansas Aeros in the American Basketball Association and of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Development League.
  • Coach Hoffman holds the distinction of being the first coach in NCAA Division I Men's basketball history to post a victory in each of the collegiate post season basketball tournaments.
  • He later coached at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia from 2008 to 2019..Hoffman is a Christian.
  • Hoffman and Mercer President William D.
  • Underwood are both graduates of Oklahoma Baptist University. Hoffman ended his tenure at Mercer with a record of 203–152 (.572).

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