Steve Prohm - Men's Basketball Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Steve Prohm

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
msubasketball@murraystate.edu
Phone:
(270) 809-6804

Murray State Head Coach

Third season in Steve Prohm's second era with Murray State begins with the 2024-25 season, the 100th in program history.
It will be his 26th overall season in college basketball and 13th as a head coach in 2024-25.
Was introduced as the Racers’ 17th head coach on March 28, 2022.
Prohm’s second era at Murray State was presented when Coach Matt McMahon became head coach at LSU.

Murray State Head Coach (Second Era of 2022-Present)

2022-23 Season
Successfully took the Racers into its first season as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in 2022-23.
The Racers scored a win over eight MVC opponents and finished with a winning season (11-9) and had a winning season overall (17-15).
The Racers scored a win at Arch Madness when they defeated Valparaiso 78-50.
MSU opened MVC play with overtime wins over Illinois State and Valparasio, which marked the first instance of MSU playing back-to-back games in overtime in records that begin in 1983.
MSU's 2-0 start made them just the sixth first-year MVC member since WWII to win its first two conference games and the Racers were the first to win both of them in overtime.
MSU saw its first MVC weekly award when Jacobi Wood was named Newcomer of the Week after the Racers played at the Myrtle Beach Invitational.
Rob Perry became the Racers' first All-MVC pick at the end ofd the season when he was named to the Third Team.
MSU led the MVC in attendance with an average of 5218 per game.
2023-24 Season
Senior Quincy Anderson getting honored to the MVC All-Scholar Team and to the State Farm Good Neighbor Award.
The Racers said goodbye to Anderson and Rob Perry, two of the first players Prohm signed for the Racers' first season in The Valley.
After finishing seventh at 11-9 in their first MVC season, the Racers posted an eighth-place finish in 2023-24 at 9-11.
After two seasons in the Valley, the Racers are 20-20 in regular season league play.
The Racers ended up playing in front of three of the top-10 crowds in The Valley this season including today’s game at the Hulman Center in front of 8,412. o Other big crowds that watched the Racers included their game at Evansville (Jan. 6) when 7,928 attended at the Ford Center and at home against Southern Illinois (Jan. 27) when 6.757 watched the game at the CFSB Center.

Murray State Head Coach (First Era of 2011-15)

Prohm’s first run as Racer head coach produced an amazing 104-29 record in four seasons from 2011-15.
MSU teams won two Ohio Valley Conference regular season titles in 2012 and 2015 and a game in the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
2011-12 team established the Racers as the final undefeated team in the nation at 23-0 with a top-10 national ranking and set the OVC record with 31 wins.
2013-14 team won the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) and were one of only four teams that finished the season with a win. The others were NCAA champion UConn, NIT winner Minnesota and College Basketball Invitational (CBI) winner Siena.
2014-15 team went undefeated in the OVC play, won a conference record 25 consecutive games, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NIT.
Prohm was voted twice OVC Coach of the Year and was named Basketball Times National Coach of the Year in 2012.
During his 10 seasons at Murray State, Prohm coached All-OVC players including Ivan Aska, Isaiah Canaan, Bruce Carter, Ed Daniel, Tony Easley, B.J. Jenkins, Jewuan Long, Isacc Miles, Cameron Payne, Donte Poole, Danero Thomas, Jarvis Williams, Shawn Witherspoon
NBA draft selections, Isaiah Canaan and Cameron Payne combined to win three OVC Player of the Year awards between 2012-15 and each earned All-America honors.
Prohm was the first MSU coach to start his career with 20 wins in three straight seasons.
Was fastest MSU coach to 75 victories.
Helped keep MSU’s streak of consecutive winning seasons that eventually went to 29 seasons in a row.
With Coach Kennedy and Prohm, the Racers had five straight 20-win seasons.

Prohm’s Greatest Players

In 12 seasons as a head coach going into the 2024-25 season, Prohm has seen eight players become NBA Draft selections. Including 2013 - Isaiah Canaan (Murray State), 34th to Houston, 2015 - Cameron Payne (Murray State), 14th to Oklahoma City, 2016 - Georges Niang (Iowa State), 50th to Indiana and Abdel Nader (Iowa State), 52nd to Boston, 2017 - Monte Morris (Iowa State), 51st to Denver, 2019 - Talen Horton-Tucker (Iowa State), 46th to Orlando (Traded to LA Lakers) and Marial Shayok (Iowa State), 54th to Philadelphia and 2020 - Tyrese Haliburton (Iowa State), 12th to Sacramento.
Payne and Haliburton were NBA Lottery picks.
George Niang was a Consensus All-America pick.
Prohm’s success with point guards is well known.
Star point guards include Canaan, who was a two-time OVC Player of the Year and finalist for the Oscar Robertson Award and was an All-America selection. Morris was a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award and Payne was OVC Player of the Year and earned the Lute Olson National Player of the Year award.
In his early career as an assistant to Billy Kennedy, Prohm coached All-Conference players Amir Abdur-Rahim, Neil Berry, Nate Lofton and Ricky Woods at Southeastern Louisiana and Kevin Sims at Tulane and Ricky McCollum at Centenary.

Early Career

Hired as assistant to head coach Billy Kennedy at Centenary in 1998-99
Served as assistant to Coach Kennedy at Southeastern Louisiana from 1999-0 where the Lions went 44-18 in the final two seasons with a pair of Southland Conference regular season titles and the school’s first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Was assistant coach at Tulane to Dave Dickerson in 2005-06.
Was student manager Coach David Hobbs at Alabama. Hobbs was later an assistant to Prohm at Iowa State.

Iowa State Head Coach

Left Murray State to become the 20th head coach at Iowa State on June 8, 2015.
Coached the Cyclones six seasons from 2015-21.
Had a 97-95 mark at ISU with three NCAA Tournaments appearances in his six seasons. He was sixth all-time at ISU with 97 wins and 40 Big 12 wins.
The Cyclones won the 2017 and 2019 Big 12 Tournament titles and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament in 2016.
Prohm was second all-time at ISU with seven wins against Associated Press Top-10 teams. His 17 wins against the top-25 are the third-most in school history.
During Prohm’s time in Ames, no Big 12 team had more NBA draft picks (six) than Iowa State.
Prohm coached all-star players at Iowa State including Rasir Bolton,, Deonte Burton, Jalen Coleman-Lands, Tyrese Haliburton, Talen Horton-Tucker, Donovan Jackson, Cameron Lard, Jameel McKay, Nazareth Mitrou-Long, Monté Morris, Abdel Nader, Georges Niang, Marial Shayok, Matt Thomas, Nick Weiler-Babb and Lindell Wigginton.

Personal

Graduated from the University of Alabama in 1997 with a degree in education.
The Vienna, Va., native attended high school at Northwest Whitfield High in Tunnel Hill, Ga.
Prohm and his wife, the former Katie Ross, live in Murray. They were married in Paducah, Ky., June 1, 2013.
They have four children, Cass, Jackson, Frances and Drew.