However, that style, former college coach and NBA coach Lon Kruger said, is harder to employ in the pros, where players are grown men with lavish salaries and stars often possess more power than ...

Another Castiglione hire was tapping Lon Kruger as men’s basketball coach in 2011. Kruger led OU to the Final Four in 2016 while guiding future NBA players such as Buddy Hield and Trae Young.

Kevin Kruger, the son of former Illinois men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger, spent the past four seasons as the UNLV head coach. He compiled a 76-55 record with the Rebels before he was fired in ...

Kruger, 42, is the former head coach at UNLV but also, notably, the son of former Illinois coach Lon Kruger, who was the head man in Champaign from 1996-2000 and went on to coach for another two ...

CHAMPAIGN — Kevin Kruger is coming home. Illinois men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood announced on Wednesday that Kruger will join the Fighting Illini staff as assistant to the head coach ...

Former UNLV men’s basketball coach Kevin Kruger landed a new job, four months after being fired by the Rebels.

After four seasons leading UNLV, Kevin Kruger has joined the Illinois Fighting Illini as assistant head coach under Brad Underwood.

Brad Underwood announced on Wednesday that former UNLV head coach Kevin Kruger will join Illinois' staff as an assistant to the head coach.

Kruger, 42, is the former head coach at UNLV but also, notably, the son of former Illinois coach Lon Kruger, who was the head man in Champaign from 1996-2000 and went on to coach for another two ...

Monday was pomp and circumstance for new Oklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger. Tuesday, there was business at hand.

Oklahoma players were walking off the Lloyd Noble Center court the other day when the Oklahoma coach walked on. Then Lon Kruger put on a mini exhibition.

Kruger lived in Champaign, Illinois, for four years while his father, Lon Kruger, was head coach of the Fighting Illini from 1996-2000.