T. L. Plain
Truman Layton Plain, better known as T. L. Plain is a former American basketball coach. Plain graduated from Western Kentucky State Teachers College in 1950, and received his master's degree from Murray State. Plain coached various high school basketball and baseball teams in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana in the 1950s and 1960s[1] From 1959-1963 T.L. Plain was the coach of the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers where he coached the team to two NCAA Division II Tournaments. After two years of assistant coaching at University of Louisville Plain became an assistant coach for the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp.[2] While at Kentucky, he was a part of the 1970 NCAA Runner up team. When Rupp was forced to retire by state law, the choice was down to Joe B. Hall and Plain for the head coaching position. T. L. Plain get the chance at a Division I school with Utah State University. His post coaching career included coordinator of convention sales at the Executive Inn in Evansville, Indiana. Since 2005 he has resided in Owensboro, Kentucky
Head coaching record
| Season |
Team |
Overall |
Conference |
Standing |
Postseason
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| Kentucky Wesleyan (Independent) (1959–1963)
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| 1959-60 |
Kentucky Wesleyan |
18-11 | | | NCAA Div II Third Place
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| 1960-61 |
Kentucky Wesleyan |
15-8 | | | NCAA Div II First Round
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| 1961-62 |
Kentucky Wesleyan |
21-4 | | |
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| 1962-63 |
Kentucky Wesleyan |
9-11 | | |
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| Kentucky Wesleyan: |
63-34 | |
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| Utah State (Independent) (1971–1973)
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| 1971–1972 |
Utah State |
12-14 | | |
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| 1972–1973 |
Utah State |
16-10 | | |
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| Utah State: |
28-24 | |
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| Total: | 91-58 | |
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion
Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion |
References
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- V. I. Moore (1907–1910)
- Unknown (1910–1916)
- John Cobb (1916–1917)
- Unknown (1917–1919)
- William E. Arnold (1919–1920)
- Jesse Sibley (1920–1922)
- Basil Hayden (1922–1923)
- L. G. Mansfield (1923–1924)
- C. A. Webb (1924–1927)
- E. R. Miller (1927–1928)
- Walter "Rip" Van Winkle (1928–1932)
- George Ditto (1932–1941)
- Arthur Gullette (1941–1942)
- Robert "Bullet" Wilson (1942–1959)
- T. L. Plain (1959–1963)
- Guy R. Strong (1963–1967)
- Bob Daniels (1967–1972)
- Bob Jones (1972–1980)
- Mike Pollio (1980–1985)
- Wayne Chapman (1985–1990)
- Wayne Boultinghouse (1990–1996)
- Ray Harper (1996–2005)
- Todd Lee (2005–2013)
- Happy Osborne (2013– )
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- George Campbell (1903–1904)
- No team (1904–1905)
- George Campbell (1905–1907)
- Mysterious Walker (1907–1908)
- Clayton Teetzel (1908–1914)
- Joseph Jensen (1914–1919)
- Dick Romney (1919–1941)
- Robert Burnett (1941–1942)
- D. D. Young (1942–1943)
- No team (1943–1944)
- D. D. Young (1944–1945)
- Bebe Lee (1945–1947)
- Joe Whitesides (1947–1950)
- H. Cecil Baker (1950–1961)
- LaDell Andersen (1961–1971)
- T. L. Plain (1971–1973)
- Dutch Belnap (1973–1979)
- Rod Tueller (1979–1988)
- Kohn Smith (1988–1993)
- Larry Eustachy (1993–1998)
- Stew Morrill (1998–2015)
- Tim Duryea {2015– )
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