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Steve Huber<br />
Huber’s Coaching Resume<br />
<strong>Creighton</strong> Assistant Coach, 2006-present<br />
Central Missouri Assistant Coach, 2004-06<br />
Louisville Assistant Coach, 2002-03<br />
San Diego State Assistant Coach, 1999-02<br />
Benedictine Head Coach, 1994-99<br />
Bradley Assistant Coach, 1993-94<br />
Northwest Missouri State Assistant Men’s Coach, 1986-88<br />
St. Cloud State Assistant Men’s Coach, 1982-84<br />
Steve Huber is in his fifth season on the <strong>Creighton</strong> coaching<br />
staff. The Illinois State graduate has previously served as a<br />
head coach at the NAIA level and been involved with coaching for<br />
over 25 years. He serves as the recruiting coordinator for the<br />
<strong>Bluejays</strong>.<br />
“Steve is an extremely hard worker who has been around the<br />
game and learned it from some pretty good people,” said head<br />
coach Jim Flanery. “He is passionate and incredibly connected<br />
when it comes to recruiting. Steve believes in the direction of this<br />
program and is committed to making it even better. He challenges<br />
our staff and players to set the bar even higher than we<br />
have in the past.”<br />
Along with his recruiting duties, Huber works with post players<br />
on the court and coordinates team travel. His work with center<br />
Kellie Nelson has turned her into an all-conference candidate<br />
this season, as she averaged 9.5 points per game during her<br />
junior season, up from a 4.5 scoring average over her first two<br />
seasons. He also helped former Bluejay forward Sara Cain double<br />
her scoring average between her sophomore and junior seasons,<br />
as she earned second-team all-Missouri Valley Conference<br />
honors as a senior.<br />
Huber has also helped the outside shooting of senior Sam<br />
Schuett and former standout Megan Neuvirth. Huber worked<br />
with Neuvirth prior to her junior season, helping her shoot 35.7<br />
percent (51-143) from three-point range after she was a combined<br />
6-for-32 (.188) from long range in her first two seasons.<br />
Schuett ranked 18th in the NCAA in three-point percentage last<br />
year, leading the MVC by shooting 42.2 percent from beyond the<br />
arc – as Huber’s coaching helped Schuett to a 10 percent jump<br />
in her long range accuracy between her sophomore and junior<br />
seasons.<br />
Huber came to Omaha following a two-year stint as an assistant<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> of Central Missouri. In his two seasons at<br />
UCM, where he also served as the recruiting coordinator, the<br />
Jennies advanced to the NCAA Division II tournament twice and<br />
compiled a 45-18 record.<br />
Prior to his time at Central Missouri, he worked as an assistant<br />
coach and recruiting coordinator at Louisville and San Diego<br />
State. His recruiting class at Louisville was given top-25 recognition,<br />
and he had honorable mention recruiting classes in his<br />
time in San Diego. He broke into the Division I ranks as an assistant<br />
at Bradley during the 1993-94 season.<br />
Huber spent five seasons as a head coach at Benedictine<br />
College in Atchison, Kan., from 1994-99. He guided the Ravens<br />
to three NAIA national tournaments, two conference titles and a<br />
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Steve Huber<br />
Assistant Coach / Fifth Season / Illinois State, 1982<br />
108-55 record. He was tabbed the NAIA District Three Coach of<br />
the Year in 1997-98 and twice earned conference Coach of the<br />
Year honors. His accomplishments at Benedictine are even<br />
more impressive when considering the Ravens had just 10 combined<br />
wins in the three seasons prior to his arrival, including an<br />
0-25 season the year before his hiring.<br />
He began his coaching career on the men’s side, serving as<br />
an assistant at St. Cloud State in Minnesota from 1982-84. He<br />
was also a men’s assistant at Northwest Missouri State from<br />
1986-88, earning his master’s degree in education from the<br />
school in 1988.<br />
During the 1990s, Huber also branched out as owner of High<br />
Five Basketball Camps, and coordinator of the Kansas City<br />
Junior College Jamboree, one of the largest preseason JUCO<br />
tournaments in the nation. High Five Basketball Camps, a college<br />
exposure basketball camp was one of the top recruiting<br />
camps in the nation. His scouting service had over 150 subscribers<br />
including more 110 Division I institutions.<br />
Huber, a Springfield, Ill., native, earned his undergraduate<br />
degree in education from Illinois State in 1982, before receiving<br />
his master’s from Northwest Missouri State in 1988.<br />
He and his wife Linda have two children, Arielle (19) and<br />
Blake (15), and reside in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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