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Steve Alford Biography

Steve Alford is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on November 23, 1964 in Franklin, Indiana, United States. He was named head coach at UCLA in 2013, after having coached Iowa from 1999 until 2007. He also coached New Mexico from 2007 to New Mexico from 2007 to 2013.

He was the winner of the NCAA Championship under coach He won an NCAA Championship under coach Bobby Knight at Indiana University. at Indiana University.

Alford decided to play basketball for Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team. At Indiana, he became the university’s all-time leading scorer with 2,438 points (a record later eclipsed by Calbert Cheaney, who went on to become the Big Ten’s all-time leading scorer). Alford was the first player to be named the team’s MVP four times. During his final three seasons, Alford earned first team all-Big Ten honors. In the Legends of College Basketball by The Sporting News Alford was #35 on the list of the 100 greatest Division-I college basketball players. When The Sporting News named its top ten NCAA basketball players of the 1980s in December 1989, Alford was listed at number ten.

As a high school freshman Alford barely averaged a point a game, but then averaged 18.7 the next season. By his senior year in 1983, before the three-point line was even implemented, Alford averaged 37.7 points per game and earned the Indiana “Mr. Basketball” award. His team advanced to the state quarterfinal but lost to Connersville in the 1983 state tournament. Later, shortly after Alford won a gold medal as a member of Bob Knight’s U.S. Olympic team, he gave the medal to his dad in a tearful ceremony at the high school in tribute to the loss.

He has three kids, Kory, Bryce and Kayla.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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As a freshman, Alford quickly earned the favor of Coach Knight. Dan Dakich, Alford’s former teammate and later an interim Indiana coach, said “Steve was incredibly mature as a freshman. He was getting thrown out of practice then. If Coach respects you and knows you can handle it, he’ll do that. When I was a freshman, only Randy Wittman and Ted Kitchel, the seniors, were thrown out.” That year Alford helped lead Indiana to an upset of the Michael Jordan-led North Carolina Tar Heels in the 1984 NCAA tournament.

Steve Alford Net Worth

Steve Alford is one of the richest Basketball Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Alford's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a basketball player in the NCAA tournament during his time at Indiana University and briefly played in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors.

He led Iowa to Big Ten Tournament Championships in 2001 and 2006.

Stephen Todd Alford (born November 23, 1964) is an American men’s college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Mountain West Conference (MWC). Born and raised in Indiana, he was a two-time consensus first-team All-American as a college basketball player for the Indiana Hoosiers. He led them to a national championship in 1987. After playing professionally for four years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he has been a college head coach for almost 30 years.

As a sophomore Alford was named to the 1985 NIT Tournament All-Tournament team after the Hoosiers finished second behind UCLA. As a junior, he and the 1985-86 Hoosiers were profiled in a best-selling book A Season on the Brink. Author John Feinstein was granted unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program and insights into Knight’s coaching style. The book recounts how Knight once criticized Alford’s work habits and leadership ability, telling him he couldn’t “lead a whore into bed.” Knight later admitted Alford was in fact an incredible worker and leader and the comments were just Knight’s method of motivating players. The Hoosiers went 21-8 that year and finished second in the Big Ten, with Alford earning All-America and Big Ten Player of the Year honors.

Alford embodied the “David versus Goliath” image of Indiana basketball popularized in the hit movie Hoosiers (released in 1986 while Alford was at Indiana). He was small for a major-college guard, slow without any compensatory quickness and strong only because he ate and flexed himself up to 185 pounds from 150 as a freshman. According to commentators, Alford owed his success to repetition and work. In his workouts he would pick a spot on the floor and take ten shots. If he did not make eight, he would punish himself with fingertip push-ups or wind sprints. At the end of his college career, Coach Knight said, “He’s gotten more out of his abilities offensively than anybody I’ve seen play college basketball. He’s about as good a scorer for being strictly a jump shooter as I’ve ever seen. He’s scored more than 2,400 points that way, and that’s incredible, considering he doesn’t get any tip-ins, drives or dunks.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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For the 1984 Summer Olympics Alford, just 19 years old and a sophomore, was selected to play on the U.S. basketball team, coached by Bob Knight. Alford averaged 10.3 points per game, was second in assists, and shot .644 from the field. He and his teammates went on to win the gold medal at the 1984 games. In this game Alford played alongside Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Sam Perkins, Chris Mullin and Wayman Tisdale. Alford has recounted that during the Olympic training camp, Jordan bet him $100 that he would not last four years on Knight’s Indiana team.

Alford was drafted 26th in the 1987 NBA draft. Many fans in Indiana expected Alford to be drafted by the Indiana Pacers, but the Pacers selected Reggie Miller and Alford fell to the Dallas Mavericks. Initially the choice angered Indiana fans but ultimately they and even Alford embraced the decision. Years later, Alford said “not only was it a much better draft choice than drafting me… Reggie turned out not to be a great pick, he turned out to be great for the state of Indiana.” Alford played in the NBA for four seasons, mostly with the Dallas Mavericks, although he spent a portion of one season with Golden State Warriors. Over his career, he started three games, scored 744 points, had 176 assists and shot free throws with an accuracy of 87 percent.

Who is Steve Alford Dating?

According to our records, Steve Alford married to Tanya Alford . As of December 1, 2023, Steve Alford’s is not dating anyone.

In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana’s fifth national championship, when the team defeated Syracuse in title game of the tournament. The game was decided by a game-winning jump shot by Keith Smart with five seconds remaining. Alford shot 7–10 from the three-point line, scored 23 points, including a buzzer-beating three-pointer at the end of the first half that put the Hoosiers ahead by one point to start the second half.

Facts & Trivia

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Alford was named Indiana Mr. Basketball in high school before playing at Indiana University under coach Bobby Knight. He helped the Hoosiers claim their fifth national championship, and finished his career as Indiana’s all-time leading scorer. Alford was selected in the second round of the 1987 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks, and played four years in the league with Dallas and the Golden State Warriors. Alford then became a college head coach. He has coached at Manchester University, Southwest Missouri State University, the University of Iowa and the University of New Mexico. He spent ​5 ⁄2 seasons with the UCLA Bruins before being fired midseason in 2018–19.

What Steve Alford salary?

Alford is scheduled to make $1.2 million next season with $50,000 annual increases until the final year of his contract in 2028-29, which maxes out at $1.5 million a year.

Why did Steve Alford leave Iowa?

Following a lackluster 2006-2007 season that saw the Hawkeyes miss both the NCAA Tournament and the NIT, Alford ran out the back door of Iowa City without paying his bill and grabbed a job at the University of New Mexico. UNM had to have questions about the past, but apparently they were able to get over it.

Did Steve Alford play in the NBA?

Steve Alford was selected in the second round of the 1987 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks. He played four seasons with the Mavericks and the Golden State Warriors. After leaving the NBA, Alford has coached six teams: Manchester, Missouri State, Iowa, New Mexico, UCLA, and, currently, Nevada.

Who is Steve Alfords wife?

Tanya Alford

Where does Steve Alford live?

Eventually the Alfords settled in New Castle, Indiana, where Steve played on the New Castle Chrysler High School basketball team with his dad as coach.

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