- Steve Newton
College coach infobox
Name = Steve Newton
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Sport =Basketball
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OverallRecord = 136-100
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Championships = 1988 OVC Championship, 1990 OVC Championship, 1991 OVC Championship
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Years = 1962-1964
Team =Indiana State
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CoachYears = 1969–19771977–1978
1978–1985
1985–1991
1991–1993
CoachTeams =University of New Orleans (asst.)
Mississippi State (asst.)
Murray State (asst.)
Murray State
South CarolinaSteve Newton is an American
basketball coach. He was head men's coach atMurray State University from 1985 to 1991 and atUniversity of South Carolina from 1991-1993. He was a player atIndiana State from 1962-1964.Coaching career
Assistant coaching
After coaching at two
Indiana high schools, Newton served as an assistant coach underRon Greene atMississippi State ,University of New Orleans and Murray State from 1969-1985. In 1972 he helped lead New Orleans to the Associated Press Division II national championship. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB73D5759073CBE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]Murray State
Newton became head coach at Murray State in 1985 when Ron Greene left to coach at Indiana State. In six seasons as the Racers head coach, Newton had a 116-65 record and lead Murray State to three NCAA tournament appearances and one
NIT appearance. The high point of his career at Murray State came onMarch 18 ,1988 when the Racers defeated theNorth Carolina State Wolfpack 78-75 in the first round of the1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament . It was Murray State's first and currently only Tournament victory. [http://racerhistory.com/index.htm] He was as finalist for the job in 1995, but instead became athletic director atUniversity of Southern Indiana . [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF41A516777ABE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]outh Carolina
Newton was hired to become the
South Carolina Gamecocks head coach onJuly 11 ,1991 . Due to allegations of recruiting violations, Newton resigned after two seasons an became the assistant athletic director. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DD1039F93AA25752C0A965958260] His record at USC was 20-35 [http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/scar/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/06-07-mg-records.pdf]Administrative work
After one season as the assistant athletic director at South Carolina, he became athletic director at
University of Southern Indiana [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF8FF5A8ED9143&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM] . He retied in 2001 an was replaced by Jon Mark Hall. [http://www.usi.edu/newsinfo/release/press_detail.asp?num=912]
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