Kansas State males’s basketball coach Bruce Weber introduced Thursday that he’s resigning after 10 seasons in Manhattan.
The Wildcats’ season ended Wednesday evening with a 73-67 loss to West Virginia within the Massive 12. Kansas State completed 14-17, beginning 14-11 earlier than dropping their final six video games.
After dropping to mountaineers, Webber thought of doing issues “the suitable approach,” evaluating his college to others—together with the Massive 12 rivals in Kansas and Oklahoma State—concerned within the FBI’s investigation into school basketball recruits.
“We did it with our guys graduating,” Webber stated. “…I’m a member of the NCAA Ethics Committee. At conferences, I used to be instructed that they might handle individuals working for the FBI. So I instructed somebody, ‘I’ll develop my hair out till one thing occurs.'” It’s clearly nonetheless rising.
“That is the unhappy a part of our job. Lon Kruger instructed me the opposite day, Consider all the fellows on the FBI. They’re all within the NCAA event aside from one. So I am happy with what I’ve achieved.”
Kansas State stated it could honor the phrases of Webber’s contract, which has one season left.
“Coach Webber has supplied selfless management to our school and basketball program over the previous decade,” athletic director Jane Taylor stated in an announcement. “With two Convention Championships and an Elite Eight in 2018, our program has reached distinctive ranges of success underneath his stewardship. His youth growth on and off the court docket, whereas representing Okay-State in a first-class method and with the very best degree of integrity unparalleled in at present’s sport and one thing that should be All Okay-Staters gamers are happy with.”
Webber led Kansas State to 5 NCAA championships throughout his decade with the Wildcats, together with an Elite Eight look. Kansas State additionally received a share of the Massive 12 common season title in 2013 and 2019, the latter ending Kansas’ reign on the high of the league. In 2013, Webber was named High 12 Coach of the Yr.
He went 184-147 in his 10 seasons at Kansas State, together with a file 82-98 within the Massive 12.
Previous to taking up at Kansas State, Webber spent 9 seasons in Illinois, the place he led Combating Illini to the Nationwide Championship sport in 2005. He was additionally the top coach of Southern Illinois for 5 seasons. He led all three packages to Candy 16, and have become one of many 10 Division I coaches to take action with three colleges.
Info from ESPN’s Mark Schlabach has been used on this report.
