Steve Prohm
Steve Prohm (born July 12, 1974)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Murray State Racers
Current conference: Missouri Valley Conference (MVC)
Iowa State record: 97-95 (.505)
Murray State record: 133-64 (.675)
Overall record: 230-159 (.591)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2012, 2016, 2017, 2019)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (2016)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2015)
- CIT Championships: 1 (2014)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2014)
- Missouri Valley Regular Season Champion: 0
- Ohio Valley Regular Season Champion: 4 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Missouri Valley Tournament Champion: 0
- Ohio Valley Tournament Champion: 1 (2012)
- Big 12 Tournament Champion: 2 (2017, 2019)
Awards:
- Joe B. Hall Award: 1 (2012)
- Ohio Valley Coach of the Year: 2 (2012, 2015)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Murray State |
| 2015-2021 | Iowa State |
| 2011-2015 | Murray State |
| 2006-2011 | Murray State (asst) |
| 2005-2006 | Tulane (asst) |
| 1999-2005 | Southeastern Louisiana (asst) |
| 1998-1999 | Centenary (vol. asst) |
Steve Prohm Facts
- Steven Marshall Prohm
- Born July 12, 1974
- Hometown: Vienna, Virginia
- Alma Mater: University of Alabama (B.Ed., 1997)
- First coaching jobs were under Billy Kennedy, first as a volunteer for one season at then-Division I Centenary (LA), then as a full-time assistant coach for six years at Southeastern Louisiana
- Spent one season as an assistant to head coach Dave Dickerson at Tulane
- Was an assistant at Murray State for five seasons under Kennedy before taking over as head coach
- Had 104 wins (.782 winning %) through his four seasons at Murray State
- Won Ohio Valley title each season and won the OVC Tournament in 2012 to earn a NCAA berth
- Also went to the NIT in 2015 and won the 2014 CIT Championship
- Hired as the new head coach at Iowa State in June 2015; went 97-95 over six seasons at the helm
- Led the Cyclones to the NCAA Tournament in three of his first four seasons, winning two Big 12 Tournament crowns
- As a result of that early success, the school signed Prohm to a contract extension in March 2019
- After a historically bad 2020-21 season in which the Cyclones went 2-22 (0-18 Big 12), Prohm and Iowa State agreed to part ways
- Led the Cyclones to the NCAA Tournament in three of his first four seasons, winning two Big 12 Tournament crowns
- Returned to Murray State in March 2022 for a second stint as the Racers’ head coach
Steve Prohm Coaching Tree
- Jordan Ashton (Iowa Wesleyan)
- Josh Gibson (Urbana, Lourdes, Brescia)
- Jonathan Mattox (Morehead State)
- Matt McMahon (LSU, Murray State)
- T. J. Otzelberger (Iowa State, UNLV, South Dakota State)
- Daniyal Robinson (Cleveland State)