Doc Sadler
Doc Sadler (born June 12, 1960)
Current position: Senior advisor for men’s basketball
Current team: Kansas Jayhawks (Head coach: Bill Self)
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Teams coached: Arkansas-Fort Smith Lions, UTEP Miners, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Arkansas-Fort Smith record: 120-39 (.755)
UTEP record: 48-18 (.727)
Nebraska record: 101-89 (.532)
Southern Miss record: 56-93 (.376) **
Overall record^: 325-239 (.576) **
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2005)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 4 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2011)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2019)
- WAC Tournament Champion: 1 (2005)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Kansas (senior advisor) |
| 2022-2023 | Oklahoma (special advisor) |
| 2021-2022 | Nebraska (special asst) |
| 2019-2021 | Nebraska (asst) |
| 2014-2019 | Southern Miss |
| 2013-2014 | Iowa State (asst) |
| 2012-2013 | Kansas (DBO) |
| 2006-2012 | Nebraska |
| 2004-2006 | UTEP |
| 2003-2004 | UTEP (asst) |
| 1998-2003 | Arkansas-Fort Smith |
| 1997-1998 | Arkansas-Fort Smith (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Arizona State (asst) |
| 1991-1994 | Texas Tech (asst) |
| 1988-1991 | Arkansas-Fort Smith (asst) |
| 1987-1988 | Chicago State (asst) |
| 1986 | Houston (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | Lamar (asst) |
| 1982-1985 | Arkansas (asst) |
Doc Sadler Facts
- Kenneth Lee Sadler
- Born June 12, 1960
- Hometown: Greenwood, Arkansas
- Alma Mater: University of Arkansas (BA, 1982) / Northeastern State University (MS, 1991)
- Was a student manager for the Arkansas men’s basketball team under head coach Eddie Sutton
- Hired by Sutton as an assistant coach after graduating, staying on the UA staff for three more seasons
- Spent a number of years as an assistant coach, including stints under Pat Foster, Tommy Suitts, James Dickey and Bill Frieder
- Worked for five seasons as both the head coach and athletic director at Division II Arkansas-Fort Smith
- After one season as one of Billy Gillispie‘s assistants at UTEP, Sadler took over as head coach in 2004
- The Miners went 25-7 and won the WAC Tournament in his first year and 21-10 in his second
- Became the head coach at Nebraska in 2006, winning 101 games over six seasons and making three NITs
- The program joined the Big Ten starting in 2011-12, but Sadler was fired following that season
- Spent one year as Bill Self‘s director of basketball ops at Kansas and one as an assistant at Iowa State under Fred Hoiberg
- Hired as the new head coach at Southern Miss in 2014
- Won 56 games in five seasons, not including six wins vacated from his first season due to the use of an ineligible player
- Reached the postseason just once, the 2019 CBI, as part of his best season at USM (20-13)
- Resigned in April 2019 after five seasons in Hattiesburg and rejoined Hoiberg as an assistant at Nebraska
- Spent two total seasons in Lincoln, the second as special assistant to the head coach
- In November 2022, Sadler joined the staff at Oklahoma as a special advisor to head coach Porter Moser
- Reunited with Bill Self in August 2023, becoming the senior advisor for men’s basketball at Kansas
Doc Sadler Coaching Tree
- Tony Benford (LSU, North Texas)
- Wes Flanigan (Little Rock)
- Philip Mathews (Riverside CC)
- Jim Shaw (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I and Division II levels
** Listed records and accomplishments for this coach do not include wins or appearances later vacated by the NCAA
