List of Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball head coaches

This list of Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball head coaches shows the twenty-eight coaches who have led the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's men's basketball program since its establishment in 1896. The team has been coached by Fred Hoiberg since 2019.

History After two decades of frequent turnover, Nebraska's first coaching stability came under Raymond G. Clapp and Ewald O. Stiehm. The two combined to win six of seven MVIAA North Division championships, and Stiehm holds the second-highest win percentage in school history among those to coach for multiple seasons. The program limped through World War II under multi-sport coach Adolph J. Lewandowski before hiring Harry Good from Indiana. Good's teams won a share of the MVIAA title in 1949 and 1950, Nebraska's most recent regular-season conference championships.

Assistant Moe Iba was named head coach in 1980 when Joe Cipriano retired after receiving a cancer diagnosis. Iba took Nebraska to its first NCAA Division I tournament in 1986, but much of the team's modest modern success came during the fourteen-year tenure of his successor Danny Nee. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their eight NCAA tournament appearances and six NIT bids, including the 1996 NIT championship, and became the program's all-time winningest head coach. Nee was fired in 2000 and Nebraska has cycled through four head coaches with little success, producing just two NCAA tournament appearances and one top-five conference finish since 2000. Fred Hoiberg, grandson of former Nebraska head coach Jerry Bush, has led the program since 2019.

List of coaches

CoachTenureWinsLossesPct.Conf. WinsConf. LossesConf. Pct. Frank Lehmer 1896–1899 7 3 T. P. Hewitt 1899–1900 5 0 Elmer Berry 1900–1901 3 3 Fred Morrell 1901–1902 5 3 Walter Hiltner 1902–1903 7 5 Raymond G. Clapp 1903–1909 59 43 9 7 T. J. Hewiat 1909–1910 6 10 6 2 Osmond F. Field 1910–1911 9 9 66 Ewald O. Stiehm 1911–1915 5614 334 Samuel C. Waugh 1915–1916 131 120 E. J. Stewart 1916–1919 2923 1819 Paul J. Schissler 1919–1921 375 91 Owen A. Frank 1921–1923 1421 1319 William G. Kline 1923–1925 2312 2111 Ernest Bearg 1925–1926 810 77 Charlie T. Black 1926–1932 5157 3337 William H. Browne 1932–1940 6487 3446 Adolph J. Lewandowski 1940–1945 2463 1733 Pop Klein 1945–1946 713 37 Harry Good 1946–1954 86100 4153 Jerry Bush 1954–1963 81132 3880 Joe Cipriano 1963–1980 254196 126112 Moe Iba 1980–1986 10671 4539 Danny Nee 1986–2000 254190 88116 Barry Collier 2000–2006 8991 3660 Doc Sadler 2006–2012 10189 3464 Tim Miles 2012–2019 116114 5276 Fred Hoiberg 2019–present

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