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By Michael Glenn
Hutchinson Community College will host Kansas State University’s Head Basketball Coach Jerome Tang Tuesday morning at the Hutchinson Sports Arena.
“Coach Tang, who was selected as the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year after guiding the Wildcats to a 26-win season and its 13th trip to the Elite Eight in his inaugural season, recently completed his second season as the 25th head men’s basketball head coach at Kansas State,” a press release issued by the college said.
The lecture will begin at 10:30 a.m., with tickets available 45 minutes before the presentation at 9:45 a.m. All youth under 18 and students with a school ID are admitted for free.
Tang is just the third coach in the program’s history to be selected National Coach of the Year, joining Fred “Tex” Winter (who presented a 2003 Dillon Lecture) in 1958 and Jack Hartman in
1980, while he is the fourth head coach from a Big 12 institution to earn the honor of the Naismith Trophy.
“[Tang] was a candidate for nearly every other National Coach of the Year honor in 2022-23, including finishing as the runner-up for The Associated Press award,” the release said. “In addition, he was the consensus Big 12 Coach of the Year, earning the honor from both the league coaches and the AP.”
