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Bob Hoffman, a four-year OBU basketball letterman, returned to coach the Bison for nine years. As a player, he scored 1,017 career points for an 8.3 career scoring average. After graduation, he coached in high school and then served as assistant coach for the Bison from 1985-87.
He coached women’s basketball for three seasons at Southern Nazarene University, turning a team that had never had a winning season into an NAIA national championship squad in 1989.
He was the Bison head coach from 1990-1999 and his teams won 243 and lost 78 (75.7 percent). Six of his teams reached the NAIA National Tournament; three teams won 30 or more games and four others won 20 or more. Hoffman’s teams finished second in the national tournament in 1993 and 1997 and third in 1994. The 1996 team reached the Sweet Sixteen and the 1999 squad finished in the Elite Eight.
He was SAC Coach of the Year in 1993, 1996, and 1997; NAIA District 9 Coach of the Year in 1993; and The Basketball Times’ 1993 NAIA Coach of the Year.
Hoffman left OBU to coach at the University of Texas-Pan American, an NCAA Division I program. He was an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma, and he coached in the NBA developmental league. Later he was coach of the Mercer University Bears in Macon, Georgia for 11 seasons, winning over 200 games. He is currently the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.
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