Kansas State basketball coach Bruce Weber resigns from position

Kansas State men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber resigned from his position on Thursday morning, according to a school press release. The decision comes one day after he provided a passionate six-minute response reflecting on his career following a Big 12 Tournament loss.

Over 10 seasons at Kansas State, Bruce Weber won 184 games, made five NCAA Tournament appearances and won two Big 12 championships. In 2018, he took his team to the Elite Eight.

Weber has spent 24 seasons as a head coach in total, with previous stops and Southern Illinois and Illinois before coming to Kansas State in 2012. Over his career, he has 15 NCAA Tournament wins and coached in the championship game in 2005. Weber is also one of 10 Division I coaches to take three different schools to the Sweet 16.

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Following the announcement that Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber would resign from his role, athletic director Gene Taylor provided a statement on the coach’s decade-long tenure.

“Coach Weber has provided selfless leadership to our basketball program and university for the last decade,” Director of Athletics Gene Taylor said in his statement. “With two conference championships and an Elite Eight run in 2018, our program reached exceptional levels of success under his direction. His development of young men on and off the court, while representing K-State in a first-class manner with the highest level of integrity is unmatched in today’s game and something all K-Staters should take great pride in.”

While Weber did not provide a statement in the press release but offered a very candid press conference on Wednesday night before making this decision on Thursday morning.

At the bottom of the press release, Kansas State announced that it will begin its search for the 25th men’s basketball coach in program history.