Those who were nominated and approved by the MBCA Board include the following:

Randy Bishop – Branson High School – Randy started his coaching career at Eminence in 1977, moved to Mt. View – Birch Tree, then on to Illinois before returning to Missouri and Branson. Coach Bishop’s teams have won twenty-six (26) tournaments in the past thirty (30) years, eight (8) District Championships, nine (9) Conference Tournament Championships, nine (9) Holiday Tournament Championships and two(2) Blue and Gold Titles in 2003 and 2007.

JERRY BOECKMAN  VIANNEY HIGH SCHOOL

Thirteen Coaches and one Official make up the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) 2006 Hall of Fame Class. They will be honored at a luncheon in their honor on Friday, June 30, 2006 at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield. Family and Friends will gather to honor this group for their outstanding Coaching and Officiating accomplishments. In addition the group will receive their awards that evening at the St. John's€™s Sports Medicine Missouri All Star Games. The games will be played at the Hammons Arena on the campus of Missouri State University. For information on tickets to the luncheon and the games contact:
 
Jim Bidewell - Jim graduated from Poplar Bluff High School in 1978 where he competed in Basketball, Football and Baseball. He went on to Arkansas State University receiving his degree in 1982. He has been the Head Basketball Coach at Portageville ever since. His teams have won 4 state titles, 2 undefeated seasons (91 & 93), 6 Final Four appearances, 11 District titles and 13-time Bootheel Conference Champions. Both of those undefeated teams are in the MBCA/Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. His teams have compiled a 483-150 record in 23 years which gives them an average of 21 wins per year.
 
Jim Byland - is a founding member of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association and served as president during the 1980's. He was the committee co-chair who set up the MBCA Academic All State Team criteria. During his high school playing days Jim scored over 1,000 points while playing at Knox County his first two years and at Moberly High School as a junior and senior. This was followed by two years at Moberly Junior College where he played on two straight National Junior College Championship teams. He started his Coaching career at Cairo in 1969, followed by a year as Graduate Assistant at Northeast Missouri State University. Jim Coached at Salisbury, Eldon and Jefferson City where his 1993 team won the Class 4A State Championship.
 
Bill Carter - has Coached and Administered at a lot of schools along the way. And this year his girls team won number 500 in his career. Bill coached football early in his career and then since 1971 has concentrated on Basketball. He is a 1957 Davenport High School graduate and a University of Dubuque 1962 graduate. He has coached in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and now Missouri. This includes Davenport West, Griswold, Riverdale Port Byron, Wichita Collegiate (twice), Capaun Mt. Carmel, Caproock, Lewisville and Thomas Jefferson on the High School level. In addition he has Coached at Friends University, Cameron University and Texas A& I University. At Capaun his teams won back to back 5A State titles in 80 & 81 with former KU & NBA player Greg Dreiling. At Friends he coached R. C. Buford an NBA player who is now the General Manager of the San Antonio Spurs. He joins Cleo Elbert at what is believed to be the only time in Missouri Basketball history that two Coaches have achieved 500 wins at the same school in the same year.
 
Cleo Elbert - saw his Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School Boys team win game number 500 in his career this past season. He graduated from Pierce City High School and received his Bachelors Degree from SMS/Missouri State and a Masters from Pittsburg State. Cleo has coached both boys and girls teams but not at the same time. He has spent 29 years as a Head Coach and has been in education for 35 years. His teams have won 7 District titles, 3 final fours and 7 undefeated Conference championships. He has coached in the Lions All Star game 5 times and been the Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year 5 times. He joins Bill Carter at what is believed to be the only time in Missouri Basketball histroy that two Coaches have achieved 500 wins at the same school in the same year.
 
Jim Enlow - Jim's teams won 756 games over a twenty-nine year Coaching career at Unionville and primarily at Centralia. He coached both boys and girls at different times and sometimes at the same time. He played at Hannibal High School for Dr. James Ballenger and at Culver Stockton College for W. A. Bill Herington. Both Ballenger and Herington were legends in Northeast Missouri Basketball history.  Jim is in the Culver Stockton Hall of Fame and received the MSHSAA Distinguished Service Award in 2001. MBCA honored him as the 1986-87 Coach of the Year.
 
Larry Buddy Graham - this Indiana native attended Odon High School where he is the all time leading scorer in Basketball. He was an all conference selection at Vincennes University Junior College and at Texas Wesleyan University. His Coaching career has seen his teams win two state titles at Madison, Illinois in 1977 and 1981. He had a four year stop at Oakville before spending 7 years at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where his teams have the record for wins. He coached at Parks College and his team was ranked #1 in the nation for Small College Association. He next spent 9 years at Florissant Valley Community College where his teams averaged 20 wins a season. He is currently Director of Basketball Operations at Lindenwood College in St. Charles.
 
 
Marlin Hammond - graduated from Weaubleau High School in 1970. While there he was an All Conference Basketball player during his Junior and Senior Year. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1974. After stops at Raymore-Peculiar, Pleasant Hope, and Bolivar he became the Head Girls Coach at Lincoln High School. 499 victories later he is still the Head Coach. Along the way his teams have won District Titles 14 times, been in the State Tournament Final Four twice and won 11 Conference Championships. He has been honored as Kaysinger Conference Coach of the Year and All Area Coach of the Year several times. Marlin currently serves as President of the Missouri State Athletic Directors Association.
 
Edward H. Heller - this native of Nebraska started officiating Basketball in 1962 and did not stop until 1993. He graduated Clatonia Nebraska High School and the University of Nebraska. He officiated over 5150 High School and College games primarily in the Northeast part of the state. He called 11 girls state tournaments and many regionals. Ed started calling girls Basketball when they still played 6 on 6 until they converted to 5 on 5. In addition to basketball and his job of 33 years with the Soil Conservation Service he officiated Baseball and Softball. He still coaches softball at Culver Stockton College and has been doing it for 13 years.
 
Andy Jackson - a Louisiana native who graduated from Charles Brown High School then played and graduated from Southwest Baptist University where he was an All District 16 player.    He has seen his team rack up a 623 - 199 record an average of more than 18 wins per season. Andy got his start coaching freshman at St. Joseph Central High School before moving on as a head coach at Hogan Prep in Kansas City, then to West Port and now at Lincoln Prep. Along the way his team have been in the Show-Me Showdown six times, finished 2nd twice, 3rd three times and 4th once. 
 
Ed Lindsay - after attending Silex High School and the University of Missouri,  Ed began his coaching career at Bunceton. His teams record there in 1975-77 did not foretell of his great success at Clopton High School where his teams have won 485 games which include a State Championship in 2005, 15 District titles and 6 Final Four appearances (4 consecutive). He is an 8 time Northeast District Coach of the Year, 3 time MBCA State Coach of the Year and a National Federation of State High School Association Midwest Sectional Coach of the Year.
 
Don Maurer - was an All State Honorable Mention player at Notre Dame - Cape Girardeau and later played two years at Southeast Missouri State University. His coaching stops include Saint Vincent- Perryville, Notre Dame - Cape Girardeau, a 2 year stint as Assistant at the University of Illinois - St. Louis University High and MICDS where his 2002 team won the Missouri State Title. In 1984 he was the District Coach of the Year and in 1999 the Metro Catholic Conference Coach of the Year. In 2002 Don was the St. Louis Post Dispatch Metro, Missouri Basketball Coaches Association and National Federation - State Coach of the Year
 
Rick Mills - attended LaMonte High School where he was the Outstanding Athlete in 1966-67. He graduated from Central Missouri State University and began his Coaching career in 1971 at Lincoln. From there he has coached at Adrian, LaMonte, Bolivar, Warrensburg, Green Ridge and now at Leeton. Along the way his teams have won 501 games which include Final Four State Tournament appearances in 1979-80 at LaMonte and Warrensburg in 1988-89. His 1980-81 LaMonte team went 27-1 and was a Quarter Finalist. His son Jason was an All State player at Warrensburg.
 
Fred Turner - started out as a High School (Bishop Lillis) All-Conference Football Player and then played that sport at Colorado State University. With that kind of a background it is surprising that Fred’s Basketball teams have won 498 games since he began 31 years ago. Fred has coached at West Platte, Bishop O’Hara, Lee’s Summit, Fort Scott Community College, Avila University, Warrensburg and most recently at Oak Park. He has received Coach of the Year honors several times in High School and twice during his College stops. This includes being NAIA District Coach of the Year in 1999.
 
Dale Gene Williams - long time Girls Basketball Coach at For Osage High School where his teams posted 309 wins since 1987. Dale's Coaching career saw him start in 1967 at Piper, Kansas and then had stops at Hanover, Kansas, North Kansas City, Simpson College in Iowa and then to Fort Osage. Altogether his teams have compiled 562 victories. At Piper and Hanover Dale coached boys. He is a member of the Baker University Hall of Fame where he earned his Bachelors Degree. He lettered four years in Football at Baker. He was inducted in the Greater Kansas City Area Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006. Twelve Suburban Conference Coach of the Year have been claimed by Dale. Dale has three children, Bob, Karie and Sheri.

Don Buffington, currently at School of the Osage, he has coached at Hannibal La Grange College and Blair Oaks High School;

RANDY ALBRECHT - Meramec Community College - Randy is a native of Sparta,  Illinois where he was an Illinois All State selection in 1962. He was a three year  letter winner at St. Louis University where he later coached both the Freshman team and then the Varsity. In 1977 he took over the head coaching position  at Meramec Community College and the rest is history. His teams have won eight Region 16 Championships, seven National Tournament appearances, Runner Up in the Nationals in 1989 and 530 wins. His wife Linda of thirty-eight years have two children and three grand children. 

DON EDWARDS - Lawson High School - Don currently serves as principal at  Lawson. In addition he serves on the board of the Missouri State High School Activities Association.. He got his start in basketball at North Harrison 
High School in Eagleville, MO and was a 1974 all-state selection. He graduated  from Northwest Missouri State University where he lettered in basketball. His coaching success was at Jefferson High School in Conception Junction, MO. His teams, both girls and boys, racked up 824 wins over a twenty year period. They appeared in six Final Fours, won three state titles, eighteen Conference Championships, sixteen MSHSAA district titles and Don was a three time Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year. His 1989 girls state championship team was undefeated. He and his wife Susan have two boys. 

DAVID GILL - Southern Boone High School - David retired following the 2002-2003 school year after coaching for twenty-five years at the Ashland, MO school.  He is a graduate of Hickman High School in Columbia and Lincoln University in  Jefferson City. He was an outstanding track and field athlete at both  schools. His first job was at Hatton, MO and in 1977 he moved to Southern Boone. His basketball teams won 537 games. He won Coach of the Year honors at both the Conference and District level. David is a past President of MBCA and also served as treasurer and vice-president. He was active in the Missouri Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association and received their certificate of merit along with the  Northeast Athletic Director of the Year award. He currently serves as Director of Competition for the Show-Me state games. David and his wife Jeanne have three daughters and two grandchildren. 

LARRY LITTRELL - Glasgow High School - Larry started his coaching and teaching career at the elementary level. He was teacher and athletic director of St. Mary's elementary from 1965 to 1972. He jumped to Central Methodist College from 1972 to 1974 as Assistant Basketball Coach. His next stop was Glasgow High School where his record was outstanding. His Boys and Girls teams over a twenty -three year period won 23 Conference Titles, 18 District Championships, 2 State Titles and one third place finish. For thirty-three years organized and worked in the Glasgow Youth Program. The Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters named him Coach of the Year in 1978. He received the Basketball Coaches of the United States Achievement Award in both 1978 and 1980. Five times he was named Coach of the Year for Missouri by Radio Station KRES of Moberly. In 2003 the Howard County R-II Schools honored Larry by placing his name on the Glasgow High School Court. 

TOM SMITH - Missouri Western State College - Tom is native of Gary, Indiana where he played Basketball at Horace Mann High School and gained All-Conference and Honorable Mention All State honors. He attended Valparaiso University and played for Missouri Sports Hall of Fame member Gene Bartow. Again he was selected All-Conference and Honorable Mention All American. Tom=s Head Coaching career started at Central Missouri State University in 1976, where his teams won 86 games. He moved to his alma mater Valparaiso in 1981 where his teams won 84 times. In 1989 he was selected to take over the head coaching position at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph. Since that time his teams have won 334 games and Tom has been honored numerous times. The MIAA has selected him as their Coach of the Year 5 times. His teams have won the Conference Title 6 times and the Post Season Tournament 4 times. Including one year at CMSU Tom's teams have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 11 times. 

BILL HOGUE - Kickapoo High School - Bill started his Basketball career as a High School player in Southwest City. Not only was he an All Stater but he set the single game scoring record at 65 points while averaging 24 points per 
game.  He was a three year letter winner at Tulsa University where he played for Missouri Sports hall of Fame member Clarence Iba. Bill has coached Basketball at nine different High Schools in Missouri. He has coached at all levels including his latest stint as Freshman Coach at Kickapoo High School, where his teams have won 165 times in nine years. His varsity high school teams won 4 conference titles at three different schools and finish second in the state while at Rogersville High School. While at Central High School in Springfield, his teams won the Blue and Gold Tournament twice and finished runner-up once. Bill received the Eddie Mathews Sportsmanship Award at both Sparta High School and St. Agnes High School. 

JIM PHILLIPS - Platte City High School - Jim Phillips played his High School Basketball at Marceline where he was an All-State selection. He attended Truman State University (Northeast Missouri State University) and earned three letters and was Co-Captain his senior year. His High School Basketball Coaching and Teaching career started at Breckenridge and continued for twenty-nine years at ten schools. His teams racked up 504 wins. Included were 10 District Championships and two Third place State Tournament Titles. Jim coached at Callao, Brashear, Glasgow, Knox County, Princeton, Marceline, Bevier, Higbee and Platte City. 

TOM ROBERTS - Schuyler County R-1 High School - Tom spent most of his thirty-seven year coaching and teaching career promoting girls basketball in the state of Missouri and across the country. During the course of that career his teams racked up 507 wins. He served on the committee that started the Girls State Basketball Tournament in our state. He held the first Girls Basketball Clinic in the state in 1971 and started the first Girls Basketball Camp at Tarkio College in 1974. He directed the Mississippi Hills Girls Basketball Camps and the Culver Stockton College Girls Camps in the 70's and 80's. Tom was the third President of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) and served on the MSHSAA Basketball Advisory Committee. He coached four different high schools to the state tournament finishing second, third and fourth. In 1982, Tom was the Class 1A coach of the year for Missouri. 

THAD J. STROBACH - Kirkwood High School - Thad got his start at winning championships by serving as manager of the St. Louis University High School during their state championship in 1958. He graduated from St. Louis University in 1963 and followed that up with a Masters Degree in Guidance and Counseling in 1965. After serving as a High School Assistant at The Priory, Thad started the Women's Basketball Program at St. Louis University and in four years his teams were 43 and 11. In 1973 he took over the Head Coaching Position at Visitation Academy in St. Louis. 485 wins later he moved to Kirkwood High School where his girls teams won 80 more games. During his stay at Visitation Thad's teams won 5 state championships, finished second 4 times and third once. This phenomenal record included 43 straight wins, 15 District titles, 28 preseason and regular season tournaments and 12 league titles. In addition to all of the above he has organized and directed Basketball Camps and Clinics for over 25 years. Thad served on the MSHSAA Basketball Advisory Committee for seven years. 

KENNETH R WALKER - El Dorado Springs High School - Ken played his High School Basketball at Bernie and was selected to the All-State team in 1962-63. He graduated from Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar. He has coached both Girls and Boys Basketball at several schools during his career. His Boys teams at Stoutland, Bronaugh, Wheeling, Koshkonong and Strafford racked up 109 wins. His Girls Teams at the above schools plus Harrisburg, New Bloomfield and El Dorado Springs won 493 games. Ken has been the Associated Press and MBCA Coach of Year. 

DENNIS J. KRUSE - Hazelwood Central High School - Dennis Kruse started  long involvement with Basketball as a player at St. George of Hermann High School. He lettered three years and was Honorable Mention All State. During his college days at Quincy College he won seven letters, three in basketball, 3 in baseball and on in cross country. He was voted into Who's Who at Quincy College in 1966. He returned to St. George of Herman High School as basketball coach in the fall of 1966. After a stint in the Army where he coached a post team he returned to Missouri and coached and taught as North Callaway, Rock Bridge, Webster Groves High Schools. He switched to College and assisted at Washington University and served as head coach at Maryville University. A short retirement ended in 2003 went he assumed the head coaching position at Hazelwood Central. Along the way his teams won 14 Conference Championships, 12 District Championships, won a State Championship in 1969, finished 4th and 3rd and was named 
Coach of the Year 13 times. All told his teams won 516 times in 36 years and he is still going. 

JOHN AUSTIN: John coached at Wyaconda C-1 High School for 30 years, winning over 830 games as a High School, Junior High Boys, and Girls Coach.  His teams won 13 boys tournament championships and 12 girls tournament championships.  In addition his junior high teams won 12 tournament championships.  Awards include the 1985 District 1A Coach of the Year, 1991 NMOA All-Star Coach, 1994 MAPHERD Teacher of the Year for Secondary Physical Education and 1998 MIAAA 25 Year Service Award for Administration and Coaching.

Bill Ballew

Bill Blanton started his coaching career at Tarkio College as Assistant Men's Basketball Coach and Assistant Baseball Coach in 1972. He then had his head coaching debut atOsborn High School in 1973; he coached there for three seasons, winning as both boys and girls coach. He then sent five years as a head basketball coach at Louisiana, MO. Bill spent one year at South Iron County and a year at Jefferson City Public. He went to Fulton High School for six years, where for the next 26 seasons, he accrued an average of over 20 wins per season; he took Fulton to its first Final Four, in 1987. He then moved on to Jefferson City Helias for the next eleven seasons; his record there was 215 & 90. He lead Helias to two Final Four seasons in 1993 and 1994. Blanton moved on to Russellville for the next four seasons where his teams went undefeated in conference play  during the 2002 and 2003 seasons and made a trip to the Elite 8. His next five years were spent at Laquey High School in South Central Missouri. While at Laquey, many school records were set including two district championships, three consecutive undefeated conference seasons (24-0), two district titles and another trip to the Final Four in 2009. Blanton has led four teams to the Final Four, accrued 13 District Titles, numerous District Coach of the Year Awards, and boasts a career record of 735-342. He is currently ranked 7th in all time wins in Missouri Basketball history.

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