Steve Huber is completed his first season at Arkansas State in 2015-16.
Huber joined the 11-time WNIT postseason participants before the start of the 2015-16 season and helped guide the program to a school record in victories with a 27-6 overall record. The run included a school best 18-game winning streak and a 19-1 mark in league play that resulted in a regular season Sun Belt Conference championship for the Red Wolves.
The Red Wolves’ narrowly missed on a NCAA Tournament at-large bid, and was among one the highest teams in the NCAA rankings not to receive a bid. Arkansas State accepted a bid to play in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) for the third consecutive year and defeated Southern University in the opening round.
He also helped Aundrea Gamble to her third consecutive Sun Belt Conference Student-Athlete of the Year award and helped lead Khadija Brown-Haywood and Brittney Gill to first and third team all-conference selections for the first time in their careers. Brown-Haywood finished as the only player in the nation (men’s or women’s) to rank in the top-3 in conference standings in both rebounding and 3-point field goal percentage.
Huber also worked with the Red Wolves’ post players and helped Lauren Bradshaw become one of the most feared shot blockers in the Sun Belt. Bradshaw finished second in the league with 53 blocks, the third most in a single season in Arkansas State history.
Huber, the 2014 Great Lakes Valley Conference Coach of the Year, spent the 2013-14 season at Drury University where he led the Lady Panthers to a 27-4 overall record and an appearance in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. Drury also finished the season ranked fifth in the final WBCA/USA TODAY Top 25 national women's college basketball poll, the school’s highest ranking since 2004 when it was the national runner-up.
From 1994-99 Huber was the head coach at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., where he guided the Ravens to three NAIA national tournaments and two conference titles. He had a five-year record of 108-55 and was named the NAIA District Coach of the Year in 1998 and was twice named the conference coach of the year. Prior to Huber’s arrival at Benedictine, the school had accumulated just 10 combined wins in the previous three seasons, including a 0-25 campaign the year before his arrival.
Huber is also no stranger to the assistant coaching ranks and has had stops at Creighton, Louisville, San Diego State, Bradley and Central Missouri. Prior to his appointment at Drury, he spent seven years at Creighton where he served as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator.
While with the Bluejays, Huber helped guide the squad to four straight Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) appearances from 2007-2011 and back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 2012 and 2013. Creighton’s invitation to the tournament in 2013 also included a 61-56 victory over No. 7 Syracuse to give the Bluejays their first victory in the NCAA Tournament since 1994.
Huber arrived in Omaha following a two-year stint as an assistant at the University of Central Missouri. In his two seasons at UCM, where he also served as the recruiting coordinator, the Jennies advanced to the NCAA Division II tournament twice and compiled a 45-18 record.
Prior to his time at Central Missouri, he worked as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Louisville and San Diego State. His recruiting class at Louisville was given top-25 recognition, and he had honorable mention recruiting classes in his time in San Diego. He broke into the Division I ranks as an assistant at Bradley during the 1993-94 season.
He began his coaching career on the men’s side, serving as an assistant at St. Cloud State in Minnesota from 1982-84. He was also a men’s assistant at Northwest Missouri State from 1986-88, earning his master’s degree in education from the school in 1988.
During the 1990s, Huber also branched out as owner of High Five Basketball Camps, and coordinator of the Kansas City Junior College Jamboree, one of the largest preseason JUCO tournaments in the nation. High Five Basketball Camps, a college exposure basketball camp, was one of the top recruiting camps in the nation. His scouting service had over 150 subscribers, including more than 110 Division I institutions.
Huber, a Springfield, Ill., native, earned his undergraduate degree in education from Illinois State in 1982, before receiving his master’s from Northwest Missouri State in 1988. He and his wife, Linda, have two children, Arielle and Blake.
