Tom Asbury is a retired American college basketball coach. Most recently, he was an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama. He was previously the head coach at Pepperdine and Kansas State University. Asbury was an assistant coach at Pepperdine for nine seasons before succeeding Jim Harrick as head coach. Asbury was very successful in his first stint at Pepperdine, becoming the conference coach of the year twice and compiling a 125?59 record in his first six years. He took the Waves to the NCAA Tournament in 1991, 1992 and 1994, as well as two NIT appearances, three regular-season WCC titles and three WCC Tournament championships. His success landed him the head coaching job at Kansas State University. He coached the Wildcats for six seasons making the NCAA Tournament once and the NIT Tournament twice. However, his final season ended in 1999?2000 at Kansas State with a 9?19 record and a 2?14 conference record. He was fired and later returned to coaching as an assistant at the University of Alabama under former pupil Mark Gottfried. [More at Wikipedia]

July 14th, 1945 in Denver (Age 79)