Greg Lansing

Greg Lansing (born December 9, 1967)

Current position: Special assistant to the head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Arizona State Sun Devils (Head coach: Bobby Hurley)
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Teams coached: Indiana State Sycamores
Indiana State record: 181-164 (.525)
Overall record: 181-164 (.525)

Career Accomplishments:

  • NCAA National Championships:  0
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances:  1  (2011)   
  • NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
  • NIT Championships:  0
  • NIT Appearances:  2  (2013, 2014)
  • CIT Appearances:  1  (2012)
  • Missouri Valley Tournament Champion:  1  (2011)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2023-present Arizona State (special asst)
2010-2021 Indiana State
2007-2010 Indiana State (assoc. HC)
2006-2007 Indiana State (asst)
1999-2006 Iowa (asst)
1996-1999 Indiana State (asst)
1992-1993 South Dakota (asst)
1990-1992 South Dakota (grad. asst)

Greg Lansing Facts

  • Greg Lansing
  • Born December 9, 1967
  • Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa
  • Alma Mater: University of South Dakota (BS, 1990 & MS, 1992)
  • His father, Dave Lansing, was a HS coach in Iowa for 33 years and is in the Iowa HS Athletic Association Coaches Hall of Fame
  • Played four seasons at (then D-II) South Dakota for head coaches Doug Martin and Dave Boots
  • Started his coaching career as a graduate assistant (the full-time assistant) under Boots at South Dakota from 1990-1993
  • Returned to Des Moines in 1993 to become the head basketball coach at Roosevelt High School
  • First stint as an assistant coach at Indiana State was from 1996-1999, where he worked under Royce Waltman
  • Spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Iowa under head coach Steve Alford before returning to Indiana State in 2006
    • After one more year as an ISU assistant he was promoted to associate head coach, a position he held from 2007-2010
  • Took over as head coach in 2010, leading the team to a 20-14 overall record and a NCAA Tournament berth in his first season
    • Has a record of 166-154 over ten seasons as the Sycamores’ head coach
    • Led the team to the NIT in 2013 and 2014 and the CBI in 2012
    • The school and Coach Lansing parted aways in March 2021 after eleven seasons as head coach, eighteen in total with ISU
  • After working as a scout with the Philadelphia 76ers for a year, Lansing was hired in 2023 by Bobby Hurley to be a special assistant at Arizona State; a year later, the program moved to the Big 12

Greg Lansing Coaching Tree