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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Eastern Kentucky Head Coach
Jeff Neubauer was selected as the 2013 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 19 Coach.
District 19 includes teams from the Ohio Valley Conference.
His eighth season as head coach at Eastern Kentucky was a remarkable one for Neubauer. The list of accomplishments for the 2012-13 Colonels is long. It begins with a school record 25 wins and includes the program’s first victory in a national postseason tournament game in 68 years. Along the way Neubauer became Eastern’s second winningest coach and the first coach in program history to lead his team to three 20-win seasons.
Neubauer’s 2012-13 team finished 25-10 and earned a spot in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT), EKU’s third postseason appearance in the last seven years. Eastern finished with three more wins than the previous program-best of 22. One of those was a 69-62 victory over Garner-Webb in the first round of the CIT, Eastern’s first postseason national tournament win since 1945.
The Colonels were picked to finish fifth in the six-team Ohio Valley Conference East Division, but entered the final day of the regular season with a chance to claim a share of the conference championship. EKU finished with the second best record in the OVC at 12-4.
Eastern Kentucky started the season with nine straight wins. It was the program’s best start in 66 years. Neubauer’s Colonels were the last remaining unbeaten mid-major team and one of the final nine undefeated teams in the nation. EKU’s 9-game winning streak tied for the fifth longest in school history. In January, Eastern began conference play 4-0 for the first time since 1978-79.
The Colonels went 15-1 at home in 2012-13, tying the school mark for most home wins in a season. Eastern Kentucky also played well on the road. Neubauer led the team to a program record nine road wins.
With 143 victories in eight seasons on the EKU bench, Neubauer now trails only Paul McBrayer on Eastern’s all-time wins list.
