Former Indiana University star Steve Alford became the youngest men’s basketball coach in NCAA history to win 600 games Saturday night when he led Nevada to a 96-74 win against New Mexico, one of his former teams.
Alford, 56, is 600-306 overall, including 522-277 at the Division I level. He went 78-29 as coach at Manchester from 1991-95.
From there, Alford went 78-48 in four years at Southwest Missouri State, 152-106 in eight years at Iowa, 155-52 in six years at New Mexico and 124-63 in 5 1/2 years at UCLA. He currently is 13-8 in his first year at Nevada.
