Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 1999
- Class:
- 1977
The Sedalia, Missouri product was a junior forward on Norm Stewart’s first Big Eight Conference championship team in 1976, then led the league in scoring and was its “Player of the Year” in 1977. Anderson was academic all-Big Eight in 1975 and ‘77, and won Missouri’s George Edwards Award for basketball excellence, academic ability, citizenship and character three times. He tallied 1,289 points in his career to rank among Missouri’s top-20 all-time scorers. Anderson was a first-round pick of the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers and also played professionally in Italy and France. He spent 18 years as an assistant basketball coach – 12 under Stewart at Missouri and six at Baylor. After spending a few years working as the Big 12 Conference’s director of basketball operations, he became the head coach at Central Missouri State, where in 12 seasons he took three teams to the NCAA Division II Final Four culminating with a national championship in 2014. He was Misssouri’s head coach for three years between 2014-2017 and has since been the head coach at Pittsburg State. He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame as an athlete in 1992 and as a coach in 2013.
