Eddie Fogler

Eddie Fogler is a former college basketball coach at Wichita State University, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina. From 1986 to 1989, he served as head coach at Wichita State University where he compiled a 61-32 (.656) record which included two NCAA appearances and one NIT berth. From 1989 to 92, he served as the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt where he compiled an 81-48 record. His 1992-93 team was ranked as high as #5 in the country and went 28-6, including a 14-2 record in the SEC, and he was named national coach of the year after winning the SEC championship. In 1989 he led Vanderbilt to the NIT championship. From 1994 to 2001, he coached at South Carolina. He compiled a 123-117(.513) record at USC. Fogler now serves as an analyst for Fox Sports Network.

In 1997, Fogler led South Carolina to a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and won national coach of the year as a result. However, his team would fall out of the tournament in the first round to Coppin State, becoming the third team to fall to a #15 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament (Syracuse (1991), Arizona (1993), and Iowa St. (2001) are the others). In 1998, Fogler again led South Carolina to the tournament, but the Gamecocks again fell, as a #3 seed to #14 Richmond, in the first round.