Tom Asbury
Tom Asbury (born July 14, 1945)
Teams coached: Pepperdine Waves, Kansas State Wildcats
Pepperdine record: 153-127 (.546)
Kansas State record: 85-88 (.491)
Overall record: 238-215 (.525)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (1991, 1992, 1994, 1996)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 4 (1989, 1993, 1998, 1999)
- WCC Regular Season Champion: 3 (1991, 1992, 1993)
- WCC Tournament Champion: 3 (1991, 1992, 1994)
Awards:
- WCC Coach of the Year: 2 (1991, 1992)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2008-2011 | Pepperdine |
| 2003-2007 | Alabama (asst) |
| 1994-2000 | Kansas State |
| 1988-1994 | Pepperdine |
| 1979-1988 | Pepperdine (asst) |
| 1976-1979 | Wyoming (asst) |
Tom Asbury Facts
- Thomas Sydnor Asbury
- Born July 14, 1945
- Hometown: Denver, Colorado
- Alma Mater: University of Wyoming (BA, 1968)
- Played for the Wyoming Cowboys under longtime head coach Bill Strannigan
- Started his coaching career at his alma mater, spending two seasons as an assistant under head coach Don DeVoe and one more under Jim Brandenburg
- Joined Jim Harrick‘s staff at Pepperdine in 1979, spending the next nine seasons as his assistant before taking over as the Waves’ head coach in 1988
- Won 125 games in his first tenure (six seasons) as Pepperdine head coach, winning three WCC titles and going to three NCAA Tournaments and two NITs
- Hired away in 1994 to become the head coach at Kansas State, where he coached the Wildcats for six seasons
- Reached three postseason tournaments (one NCAA, two NIT) in six years, coaching the program during the transition from the Big Eight to the Big 12
- Was fired after the 1999-2000 season and spent the next few seasons out of coaching
- Joined Mark Gottfried‘s staff at Alabama in 2003, working as an assistant there for three seasons before retiring in 2007
- Came out of retirement a year later to serve a second tenure as the head coach at Pepperdine
- Coached the Waves for three more seasons until retiring for good in 2011
- The school inducted Asbury into the Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012
- Along with his late wife, Carly Ann Asbury, has one daughter and another daughter that tragically passed away in 1993
Tom Asbury Coaching Tree
- Steve Aggers (Loyola Marymount, Eastern Washington)
- Mark Fox (California, Georgia, Nevada)
- Bob Williams (UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis)
- Marty Wilson (Pepperdine)
- Ernie Zeigler (Central Michigan)
