Jeremy Case is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach at the University of Kansas. He won an National Championship as a player at Kansas in 2008 and won another championship as an assistant coach in 2022.
Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Kansas |
Conference | Big 12 |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1984-11-10) November 10, 1984 (age 38)[1] |
Playing career | |
2003–2008 | Kansas |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2008–2009 | Kansas (graduate assistant) |
2009–2012 | Southeast Missouri State (assistant) |
2012–2016 | Houston Baptist University (assistant) |
2016–2021 | Kansas (video coordinator) |
2021–present | Kansas (assistant) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Case played for the McAlester High School in McAlester, Oklahoma. When he graduated, Case was the school's all-time leading scorer in basketball with 2,249 points, winning a regional championship and making the state 5A tournament twice, and playing at the varsity level all four years.[2] The McAlester News-Capital also named Case as the 2002 all-area basketball player of the year. Case was named to the school's McAlester Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.[2]
Case received offers from many universities including Oklahoma, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, and Colorado.[3] On July 9, 2003, he announced his choice to play college basketball at the University of Kansas.[4]
Case played in 94 games while at Kansas.[1] During his time he won four Big 12 championships, 3 Elite Eights, and the 2008 National Championship. He was a two-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2006 and 2008.
Case remained at Kansas as a graduate assistant from 2008 to 2009.[5] Case left Kansas to work as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State from 2009 to 2012.[6] From 2012 to 2016, he was an assistant coach at Houston Baptist University.[7] Case returned to Kansas to serve as video coordinator in August 2016.[8] He was promoted to assistant coach at Kansas on an interim basis in the summer of 2021 before being named full time assistant a few months later.[9]
Case lives with his wife and son in Lawrence, Kansas.[1] His father, Win Case, was the head basketball coach at Oklahoma City University from 1993 until 2005 and is an assistant coach at Ole Miss.[10] Win was a college teammate of Bill Self at Oklahoma State during the 1980s.
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball 2007–08 NCAA champions | |
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Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball 2021–22 NCAA champions | |
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