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 Carolina

Steve Newton is an American basketball coach. He was head men's coach at Murray State University from 1985 to 1991 and at University of South Carolina from 1991-1993. He was a player at Indiana State from 1962-1964.

Coaching career

Assistant coaching

After coaching at two Indiana high schools, Newton served as an assistant coach under Ron Greene at Mississippi 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 on March 18, 1988 when the Racers defeated the North Carolina State Wolfpack 78-75 in the first round of the 1988 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 at University 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 on July 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]