USD Men's Basketball 1988-1989

COACH HANK EGAN

PAGE4

HEAD COACH HANK EGAN Head Coach Hank Egan enters his fifth season at the helm of the USO basketball program. He has tallied an impressive four-year record at San Diego of 70-43, and a 46-11 mark in the USO Sports Center. Beginning his 18th season as a head coach at the NCAA Division I level, Hank car– ries an overall record of 218-228 into the 1988-89 campaign. Coach Egan found the 1987-88 season a challenging one as his thirteen-man roster-including seven freshmen-finished the season with an overall record of 11-17. In 1986-87 Coach Egan guided the Toreros to the first round of the NCAA Tournament. With a tough 62-61 loss to Auburn University in the tournament's first round, the USO men's basketball team completed its most successful season ever with a 24-6 record. Along the way USO won fourteen consecutive games and won the regular-season West Coast Athletic Conference championship with a 13-1 record. His peers from the WCAC voted him the 1986-87 Coach of the Year. In 1985-86 he guided the Toreros to a fine record of 19-9 and was named Co-Coach of the Year in the WCAC, sharing the honor with Pepperdine's Jim Har– rick (now at UCLA).

A recognized expert in the technical aspects of the game, Hank has an impeccable reputation for integrity, and is a coach who "gets the most" out of his players. Acknowledged as one of the finest defensive coaches in the nation, good defense is a trademark with Egan-coached teams. His 1986-87 team finished #1 in the nation in field goal percentage defense (40.1%) and in the top-ten in scoring defense (60.3). His 1985-86 team finished 8th in the nation in field goal percentage defense, limiting opponents to 42.4% shooting . Prior to USO, Hank coached at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs for eighteen years, thirteen as the head coach . Highlights of his coaching career include his 1986-87 club that finished 24-6 and participated in NCAA Tournament; his 1985-86 team that finished 19-9; and his 16-9 Air Force club from 1976. As evidence of the high regard in which he is held by his colleagues and basketball people in general , Hank was the alternate coach to George Raveling (USC) for the 1984 United States Olympic Basketball team; he was a coach in the Olympic tryouts in Bloomington, Indiana, and also scouted South American Olympic teams in San Paulo, Brazil; he is a member of the Legislative Commission of the National Basketball Coaches Association of America; and , was one of only ten coaches chosen in 1984 by the NCAA to participate and represent the country's coaches in a special meeting of Presidents, Athletic Directors, and Faculty Representatives called to study the strengthening of academic requirements for intercollegiate athletics. Before becoming the second head coach in Air Force basketball history, Egan was the freshman mentor for two seasons and was chief scout and recruiter during the 1970-71 season . From 1966 to 1968, he was an assistant junior varsity coach. A three-time basketball letterman at Navy, he also played several seasons on Air Force service teams and has coached on both the military and AAU levels. Hank graduated from the Naval Academy in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. His hobbies include golf, jogging, reading and crossword puzzles. Hank and his wife Judy have two children, John and Kelly.

EGAN'S CAREER RECORD

W-L

School

Year

Pct. .444 .593 .679 .800 .393 .619 .489

1971-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88

148-185

Air Force San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego

16-11

19-9 24-6

11-17

Totals Career

70-43

at U.S.D. 17 years

218-228