Norm Ellenberger

Basketball Coach

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Who is Norm Ellenberger?

Norm Ellenberger was head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobo basketball team from 1972 to 1979, winning Western Athletic Conference championships in 1974 and 1978 and compiling an overall record of 134-62. His players included NBA defensive stand-out Michael Cooper. Ellenberger was dismissed as Lobo head coach due to a recruiting scandal known as Lobogate.

Ellenberger later became lead assistant coach under Don Haskins at UTEP and Bobby Knight at Indiana. He served as an assistant for the Chicago Bulls before coaching boys and girls high school basketball in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He returned to coaching professional basketball in 2012 as an assistant for the New York Liberty of the WNBA.

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Nationality
  • United States of America
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Education
  • Butler University

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on July 23, 2013

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