Henry Iba
Henry Payne “Hank” Iba (/ˈaɪbə/; August 6, 1904 – January 15, 1993) was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, now known as Northwest Missouri State University, from 1929 to 1933; the University of Colorado Boulder from 1933 to 1934; and the Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, known as Oklahoma A&M prior to 1957, from 1934 to 1970, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 751–340. He led Oklahoma A&M to consecutive NCAA basketball tournament titles, in 1945 and 1946.
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| Born | August 6, 1904 Easton, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 15, 1993 (aged 88) Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1923–1927 | Westminster (MO) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Center | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927–1929 | Classen HS (OK) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929–1933 | Northwest Missouri State | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1933–1934 | Colorado | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1970 | Oklahoma A&M / State | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Baseball | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1941 | Oklahoma A&M / State | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935–1970 | Oklahoma A&M | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall | 751–340 (college basketball) 90–41 (college baseball) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accomplishments and honors | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball 2 NCAA tournament (1945, 1946) 4 NCAA Regional—Final Four (1945, 1946, 1949, 1951) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1969 (profile) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Iba was also the athletic director at Oklahoma A&M / Oklahoma State from 1935 to 1970 and the school's head baseball coach from 1934 to 1941, tallying a mark of 90–41. As head coach of the United States men's national basketball team, he led the U.S. to the gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. Iba was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1969.