Danny Manning
Danny Manning (born May 17, 1966)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Colorado Buffaloes (Head coach: Tad Boyle)
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Teams coached: Tulsa Golden Hurricane, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Maryland Terrapins
Tulsa record: 38-29 (.567)
Wake Forest record: 78-111 (.413)
Maryland record: 10-14 (.417)
Overall record: 126-154 (.450)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2014, 2017)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Conference USA Regular Season Champion: 1 (2014)
- Conference USA Tournament Champion: 1 (2014)
Awards:
- Skip Prosser Man of the Year: 1 (2017)
- Conference USA Coach of the Year: 1 (2014)
- Naismith of the Player: 1 (1988)
- John R. Wooden Award: 1 (1988)
- NABC Player of the Year: 1 (1988)
- Big Eight Player of the Year: 3 (1986, 1987, 1988)
- AP All-American: 3 (1986, 1987, 1988)
- NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player: 1 (1988)
- National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted in 2008 as a player)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | Colorado (asst) |
| 2022-2024 | Louisville (assoc. HC) |
| 2021-2022 | Maryland (interim HC) |
| 2021 | Maryland (asst) |
| 2014-2020 | Wake Forest |
| 2012-2014 | Tulsa |
| 2006-2012 | Kansas (asst) |
| 2003-2006 | Kansas (mgr) |
Danny Manning Facts
- Daniel Ricardo Manning
- Born May 17, 1966
- Hometown: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Alma Mater: University of Kansas (BA, 1991)
- Played at Kansas for head coach Larry Brown, leading the Jayhawks to the NCAA National Championship in 1988
- Won several national awards his senior year, including the Naismith POY, Wooden Award, NABC POY and Final Four MOP
- Was a three-time AP All-American (1986-88), and named Big Eight Player of the Year three times (1986-1988)
- Drafted first overall in the 1988 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers, where he played for 5+ seasons
- Won a bronze model with Team USA at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea
- Played for six NBA franchises over the course of a 15-year career, scoring 12,367 points, dishing 2,063 assists and grabbing 1,000 steals
- NBA head coaches Manning played for include Gene Shue, Don Casey, Mike Schuler, Larry Brown, Bob Weiss, Lenny Wilkens, Paul Westphal, Cotton Fitzsimmons, Danny Ainge, George Karl, Jerry Sloan, Don Nelson and Rick Carlisle
- First coaching positions were as a team manager (2003-06) and assistant (2006-12) at Kansas under Bill Self
- Part of the Kansas coaching staff in 2008 when the Jayhawks won the NCAA National Championship
- Spent two years as head coach at Tulsa; won the C-USA regular season and C-USA Tournament titles to earn an NCAA Tournament bid in 2014
- Hired in April 2014 to be the head coach at Wake Forest, leading the Deacs to the 2017 NCAA Tournament in year three
- Outside of the 2016-17 season, Manning’s teams have finished below .500 every year during his tenure
- Manning was fired in April 2020 after six seasons at the helm, during which time he went 78-111
- In 2021, he joined the coaching staff of former KU teammate Mark Turgeon at Maryland
- Elevated to interim head coach in December 2021 when UMD and Turgeon parted ways; went 10-14 overall
- Spent two seasons on Kenny Payne‘s staff at Louisville as an associate head coach
- Joined Tad Boyle at Colorado as an assistant coach in May 2024
Danny Manning Coaching Tree
- Brett Ballard (Washburn)
- Will Martin (Missouri Western)