Ken Bone
Ken Bone (born May 21, 1958)
Teams coached: Portland State Vikings, Washington State Cougars
Portland State record: 77-49 (.611)
Washington State record: 80-86 (.482)
Overall record^: 410-232 (.639)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2008, 2009)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2011)
- CBI Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2012)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2012)
- Big Sky Regular Season Champion: 1 (2008)
- Big Sky Tournament Champion: 2 (2008, 2009)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 7 (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Final Four: 1 (2000)
Awards:
- Big Sky Coach of the Year: 1 (2008)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2018-2024 | Pepperdine (assoc. HC) |
| 2016-2017 | Gonzaga (special asst) |
| 2014-2016 | Montana (assoc. HC) |
| 2009-2014 | Washington State |
| 2005-2009 | Portland State |
| 2002-2005 | Washington (asst) |
| 1990-2002 | Seattle Pacific |
| 1986-1990 | Seattle Pacific (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | Olympic CC |
| 1984-1985 | Cal State Stanislaus |
| 1983-1984 | Cal State Stanislaus (asst) |
Ken Bone Facts
- Kenneth Walter Bone
- Born May 21, 1958
- Hometown: Seattle, Washington
- Alma Mater: Seattle Pacific University (BA, 1983 & MA, 1993)
- Started college career at Shoreline CC, then Edmonds CC before finishing at Division II Seattle Pacific
- First jobs were at Cal State Stanislaus and Olympic CC; returned to Seattle Pacific as an assistant under Claude Terry in 1986
- Became the head coach at his alma mater in 1990, where he won 253 games in twelve years at the helm
- Led the Falcons to seven D-II NCAA Tournaments, reaching the D-II Final Four in 2000
- Joined the Division I ranks in 2002 as an assistant on Lorenzo Romar‘s staff at Washington
- Became the head coach at Portland State in 2005, leading the Vikings to the NCAA Tournament twice in four seasons
- Spent five seasons as the head coach at Washington State, winning 80 games and making two postseason appearances
- His Cougars made the CBI Finals in 2012 and the NIT Semifinals in 2011
- Fired in March 2014 after going 23-40 combined in the preceding two seasons
- Hired as Travis DeCuire‘s associate head coach at Montana in 2014, where he would stay for two seasons before joining Mark Few‘s staff at Gonzaga in 2016 as a special assistant
- Re-joined Romar in March 2018 and spent the next six seasons as associate head coach at Pepperdine
Ken Bone Coaching Tree
- Tyler Geving (Portland State)
- Jeff Hironaka (College Christian)
- Ritchie McKay (Liberty, New Mexico, Oregon State, Colorado State, Portland State)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I and Division II levels only
