2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
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WAYNE<br />
MORGAN<br />
ASSISTANT COACH<br />
Wayne Morgan is entering his second<br />
season as an assistant coach on the <strong>Hofstra</strong><br />
Men’s <strong>Basketball</strong> staff in <strong>2011</strong>-<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Morgan came to <strong>Hofstra</strong> last year with<br />
over 20 years of coaching experience at the<br />
Division I level, including <strong>12</strong> years as an<br />
assistant coach at Syracuse, six years as a<br />
head coach at Long Beach State and three<br />
years as a head coach at Iowa State.<br />
Morgan took over the head coaching<br />
position at Long Beach State beginning<br />
in the 1996-97 season. During his six-year tenure with the<br />
49ers, Morgan <strong>com</strong>piled 91 wins and earned a 55-39 record in<br />
the Big West conference. Three of his teams earned a first or<br />
second place finish in the Western Division, while his 1999-<br />
2000 team finished 24-6 overall, 15-1 in the Big West and<br />
earned a bid to the National Invitation Tournament. He was<br />
named the NABC District 15 Coach of the Year in 2000.<br />
assistant Coaches<br />
In 2002, Morgan was hired as an assistant coach<br />
at Iowa State and took over the head coaching<br />
position in 2003. In his three seasons at the helm,<br />
he guided the Cyclones to a pair of postseason<br />
berths, including an appearance in the second<br />
round of the NCAA Tournament in 2005. That<br />
season, he guided his squad to five wins over<br />
nationally ranked teams, a championship of the<br />
Rainbow Classic in Hawaii, and a seven-game<br />
winning streak in the Big <strong>12</strong> Conference. In his<br />
first year with the Cyclones, he led his team to a<br />
17-1 home record, the second-most home wins in<br />
school history.<br />
Morgan served as Jim Boeheim’s assistant at<br />
Syracuse from 1984-96, helping the Orangemen<br />
to two appearances<br />
in the national<br />
championship<br />
game (1987, 1996).<br />
Syracuse earned 11<br />
NCAA Tournament<br />
bids during his<br />
tenure, advancing<br />
to the Elite Eight<br />
three times and to<br />
the Sweet Sixteen<br />
five times. The<br />
Orangemen won<br />
five Big East regular<br />
season titles and<br />
three Big East<br />
Tournament crowns<br />
with Morgan on<br />
the staff, while the<br />
program’s overall<br />
record over those <strong>12</strong> seasons was 316-108.<br />
A 1973 graduate of St. Lawrence University<br />
with a degree in physical education, Morgan<br />
played for Richard Cassara, the father of<br />
current <strong>Hofstra</strong> head coach Mo Cassara, as a<br />
member of the Saints. Morgan also earned a<br />
master’s degree in physical education, with<br />
a minor in psychology of sports, at Ithaca<br />
College.<br />
22 <strong>2011</strong>-20<strong>12</strong> HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MEN’S BASKETBALL
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