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He was a basketball player in the NCAA tournament during his time at Indiana University and briefly played in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors.
He led Iowa to Big Ten Tournament Championships in 2001 and 2006.
Stephen Todd Alford (born November 23, 1964) is an American men’s college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Mountain West Conference (MWC). Born and raised in Indiana, he was a two-time consensus first-team All-American as a college basketball player for the Indiana Hoosiers. He led them to a national championship in 1987. After playing professionally for four years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he has been a college head coach for almost 30 years.
As a sophomore Alford was named to the 1985 NIT Tournament All-Tournament team after the Hoosiers finished second behind UCLA. As a junior, he and the 1985-86 Hoosiers were profiled in a best-selling book A Season on the Brink. Author John Feinstein was granted unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program and insights into Knight’s coaching style. The book recounts how Knight once criticized Alford’s work habits and leadership ability, telling him he couldn’t “lead a whore into bed.” Knight later admitted Alford was in fact an incredible worker and leader and the comments were just Knight’s method of motivating players. The Hoosiers went 21-8 that year and finished second in the Big Ten, with Alford earning All-America and Big Ten Player of the Year honors.
Alford embodied the “David versus Goliath” image of Indiana basketball popularized in the hit movie Hoosiers (released in 1986 while Alford was at Indiana). He was small for a major-college guard, slow without any compensatory quickness and strong only because he ate and flexed himself up to 185 pounds from 150 as a freshman. According to commentators, Alford owed his success to repetition and work. In his workouts he would pick a spot on the floor and take ten shots. If he did not make eight, he would punish himself with fingertip push-ups or wind sprints. At the end of his college career, Coach Knight said, “He’s gotten more out of his abilities offensively than anybody I’ve seen play college basketball. He’s about as good a scorer for being strictly a jump shooter as I’ve ever seen. He’s scored more than 2,400 points that way, and that’s incredible, considering he doesn’t get any tip-ins, drives or dunks.”
