Sundance Wicks (born August 9, 1980)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Green Bay Phoenix
Current conference: Horizon League
Missouri Western record: 30-32 (.484)
Green Bay record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record^: 30-32 (.484)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Horizon League Regular Season Champion: 0
- Horizon League Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Green Bay |
| 2020-2023 | Wyoming (asst) |
| 2018-2020 | Missouri Western |
| 2016-2018 | Northern State (assoc. HC) |
| 2015-2016 | San Francisco (asst) |
| 2007-2011 | Northern Illinois (asst) |
| 2006-2007 | Colorado (asst) |
| 2004-2006 | Northern State (grad. asst) |
Sundance Wicks Facts
- Sundance Wicks
- Born August 9, 1980
- Hometown: Gillette, Wyoming
- Alma Mater: Northern State University (BA, 2003 & MA, 2006)
- A three-sport star at at Campbell County HS (WY), Wicks played basketball and ran track at D-II Northern State in Aberdeen, SD; on the hardwood, he played four seasons for legendary head coach Don Meyer
- Spent two seasons on Meyer’s staff as a graduate assistant to start his coaching career
- Hired as an assistant at Colorado by Ricardo Patton in 2006, then followed Patton to Northern Illinois a year later, spending four seasons with the Huskies
- From 2011-15, Wicks served as skills instructor and program director of the Arizona Power Basketball Academy (APBA) in Gilbert, AZ
- Returned to college basketball in 2015, spending one season as an assistant under Rex Walters at San Francisco
- Worked as associate head coach for Paul Sather for two seasons at his alma mater, Northern State, during which time the Wolves were 58-12 and in 2018 finished as NCAA D-II Runner-up
- That led to his first head coaching opportunity at D-II Missouri Western State
- Went 30-32 in two seasons with the Griffons, winning 18 games in 2019-20 (their most wins in 10 years)
- Left to join new head coach Jeff Linder‘s staff at Wyoming; his three-year tenure included the 2021 NCAA at-large bid
- Hired in March 2023 to be the new head coach at Green Bay in the Horizon League
Sundance Wicks Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels
