Following Murray State’s loss in the quarterfinals of the MVC Tournament on Friday night, head coach Steve Prohm announced that he’s stepping away from the program. This was the end of Prohm’s third season with the Racers, though he had previously been head coach of the program a decade earlier.
A former student manager at Alabama, Prohm’s coaching career caught on under Billy Kennedy, under whom he served as an unpaid assistant at Centenary back in 1998. Prohm would follow Kennedy to two other schools, landing at Murray State in 2006. After five years, Kennedy left for Texas A&M and Prohm was promoted to the top job.
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Taking advantage of a program in fantastic shape, Prohm led Murray State to a 31-2 record, an OVC title, and a first round NCAA Tournament win as a rookie head coach. He’d get the Racers back to the Big Dance in 2015 and won over 100 games across those four seasons.
After that success he accepted the Iowa State job vacated by Fred Hoiberg. The Big 12 represented a bigger challenge, though Prohm led the Cyclones to the Sweet Sixteen in his first season. He won Big 12 Tournament titles in his second and fourth years respectively, though fizzled out with some awful seasons and was fired in 2021…