Eddie Biedenbach (born August 12, 1945)
Teams coached: Davidson Wildcats, UNC Asheville Bulldogs
Davidson record: 29-51 (.363)
UNC Asheville record: 256-258 (.498)
Overall record: 285-309 (.480)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 3 (2003, 2011, 2012)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2008)
- Big South Regular Season Champion: 5 (1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2012)
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 1 (1981)
- Big South Tournament Champion: 3 (2003, 2011, 2012)
Awards:
- Big South Coach of the Year: 1 (1997, 2002, 2006, 2008)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2013-2014 | UNC Wilmington (asst) |
1996-2013 | UNC Asheville |
1993-1996 | NC State (asst) |
1981-1989 | Georgia (asst) |
1978-1981 | Davidson |
1970-1978 | NC State (asst) |
Eddie Biedenbach Facts
- Edward Joseph Biedenbach
- Born August 12, 1945
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Alma Mater: North Carolina State University (BA, 1968)
- Played at Edgewood HS (PA) then played for Press Maravich and Norm Sloan at NC State
- Named first-team All-ACC twice and was drafted 45th overall in the 1968 NBA Draft, playing briefly for the Phoenix Suns
- Started his coaching career in 1970, spending eight years as an assistant under Sloan at NC State
- Spent three years as the head coach at Davidson, winning a SoCon title in his third season
- Was on Hugh Durham‘s staff at Georgia for eight seasons; the Bulldogs reached the 1983 NCAA Final Four
- Returned to his alma mater NC State in 1993, working under Les Robinson for three seasons
- Hired as the head coach at UNC Asheville in 1996, where he would coach fo the next seventeen seasons
- Won 256 games, six Big South titles and three Big South Tournaments during that tenure
- Resigned from his post in April 2013 and spent one year as an assistant at UNC Wilmington under Buzz Peterson
- Though he went from being a head coach to an assistant, Biedenbach actually got a pay raise, the opportunity to work for a friend in AD Jimmy Bass and to move closer to his daughters
- Peterson, Biedenbach and staff were not retained following the season
Eddie Biedenbach Coaching Tree
- Rick Barnes (Tennessee, Texas, Clemson, Providence, George Mason)
- Jeff Bzdelik (Wake Forest, Colorado, Air Force, Denver Nuggets, UMBC)
- Nick McDevitt (Middle Tennessee, UNC Asheville)
- Bob McKillop (Davidson)
- Ryan Odom (Utah State, UMBC, Lenoir-Rhyne, Charlotte)
- Monte Towe (New Orleans)
- Mark Vanderslice (USC Aiken, Louisburg)