Quin Snyder Tabbed For Basketball Times Award
3/13/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 13, 2000
Pinehurst, N.C. - University of Missouri Head Men's Basketball Coach QUIN SNYDER has been named the national "Rookie Coach of the Year" by Basketball Times the publication announced today.
Snyder, 33, has led Missouri to an 18-12 record and its second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. Missouri, the No.9-seed, will face the No.8-seed North Carolina Tar Heels in the first round of the South Regional on Friday, March 17 in Birmingham, Ala.
A victory over Texas Tech in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, March 10, made Snyder the winningest first-year coach in University of Missouri basketball history with 18 wins. The victory pushed him past former Tiger mentors Craig Ruby and Walter Meanwell who each won 17 games in 1920-21 and 1917-18 respectively. Snyder's first coaching victory came in MU's second game of the 1999-2000 season, a 51-48 win over Princeton at the NABC Classic on Nov. 13th in Syracuse, N.Y.
Snyder was an assistant coach at Duke University for four seasons prior to arriving at Mizzou.
