Ernie Zeigler
American college basketball coach (born 1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernest Franklin Zeigler II (born January 31, 1966) is an American college basketball coach, currently an assistant at the University of Nebraska.[1] He spent the previous eight seasons as an assistant coach at Mississippi State, and prior to that was the men's head coach at Central Michigan University.[2] He received a Bachelor's in Business Management from Cleary College in 1994. He played collegiately at Schoolcraft College (1984–86), Armstrong Atlantic State University (1986–87) and Northwood University (1987–88).[3]
Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Nebraska |
Conference | Big Ten Conference |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1966-01-31) January 31, 1966 (age 58) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1984–1986 | Schoolcraft |
1986–1987 | Armstrong Atlantic State |
1987–1988 | Northwood |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1990–1996 | Cody HS (asst.) |
1996–1997 | Henan Wildcats |
1997–1999 | Al-Halil |
1999–2000 | Kansas State (asst.) |
2000–2001 | Bowling Green (asst.) |
2001–2003 | Pittsburgh (asst.) |
2003–2006 | UCLA (asst.) |
2006–2012 | Central Michigan |
2013–2015 | Detroit (asst.) |
2015–2022 | Mississippi State (asst.) |
2022–present | Nebraska (asst.) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 80–105 (.432) |
Zeigler has also coached in China, Saudi Arabia, at Kansas State, Bowling Green and at Detroit Cody High School before serving on Ben Howland's staff at Pittsburgh and at UCLA.[4] Zeigler left UCLA to take on the head coaching job at Central Michigan where his son, Trey Zeigler, played for him.[2] Trey transferred[5] to Pittsburgh[6] after his father was fired.