Shane Nichols - Men's Basketball Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Shane Nichols

At Murray State

Nichols begins his sixth season with the Murray State Racers in the 2020-21 season.
He has been a part one of the greatest periods of program history that includes three-straight OVC regular season championships (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20) and two OVC Tournament titles (2017-18, 2018-19).
In the last three seasons, the Racers are a combined 77-20 (.777) overall and 47-7 (.870) in OVC games and at home, they are 44-3 (.933) in the CFSB Center.
In the 2019-20 season, MSU was 23-9 and 15-3 in the OVC.
The Racers were Co-OVC champions, marking the program's 27th regular season title.
MSU had an 11-game winning streak overall and a 21-game home winning streak.
In the 2018-19 Season, MSU had 28 wins, marking the 10th time in 94 seasons that MSU posted 25 or more victories.
MSU was regular season OVC champions for 26th time & made their 17th NCAA appearance.
MSU was No. 12 seed and defeated No. 5 Marquette for the Racers’ fourth all-time win in the tournament.
In the 2017-18 season, the Racers were 26-6 and won the OVC regular season championship at 16-2.
They competed in the NCAA Tournament in San Diego where they faced West Virginia.
He has coached OVC consensus All-America selection Ja Morant and OVC Player of the Year and Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention selection Jonathan Stark and OVC Defensive Player of the Year, Shaq Buchanan and All-OVC selections Tevin Brown and KJ Williams.

Before MSU

Was assistant coach at Hofstra under coach Joe Mihalich for two seasons including a 20 win 2014-15 campaign.
He also assisted Mihalich in the 2012-13 season at Niagara.
Prior to his move to Niagara, Nichols served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Wofford, where the Terriers advanced to the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
Nichols was a quick study under great coaches Mike Young at Wofford and Joe Mihalich at Hofstra and Niagara.
As a player at Wofford, he scored 1,482 points in his career and was a multiple All-Southern Conference selection.

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