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Eustachy Honored as Coach of the Year
03.31.2000 | Men's Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Cincinnati center Kenyon Martin and Iowa State's Larry Eustachy were honored today by The Associated Press as college basketball's player and coach of the year.
Martin, one vote shy of being a unanimous All-America selection this season, was the Conference USA player of the year after averaging 18.9 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3.4 blocks.
The 6-foot-8 senior broke his leg three minutes into a quarterfinal loss to Saint Louis in the conference tournament. That cost the Bearcats the No. 1 ranking, a position they held this season for 12 weeks.
Martin, a three-time defensive player of the year in the conference, was followed in the voting by AP member newspapers and radio stations by Marcus Fizer of Iowa State, Mark Madsen of Stanford, A.J. Guyton of Indiana, Troy Murphy of Notre Dame and Chris Mihm of Texas.
Martin is the first player from Cincinnati to win the Adolph Rupp Trophy, which was first awarded in 1961.
Eustachy led Iowa State to the Big 12 regular-season and conference tournament championships, the school's first league titles since 1945 when the conference was called the Big Six.
The Cyclones, 15-15 in Eustachy's first season at Iowa State, finished 32-5, concluding the season with a loss to top-seeded Michigan State in the Midwest Regional final.
The wins were a school record and came following some preseason polls that had the Cyclones picked near the bottom of the league. Iowa State finished sixth in the final AP poll.
Eustachy is 206-106 in a career that has included stops at Idaho and Utah State. He is the first Iowa State coach to win the award, which was first presented in 1967.
He was followed in the voting by Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, John Brady of LSU, Mike Montgomery of Stanford, John Chaney of Temple, Bob Huggins of Cincinnati and Lute Olson of Arizona.
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