Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- mbasket@indiana.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 855-2238
• Judson is in his second season as an assistant coach at Indiana after joining the staff as the Director of Basketball Operations on Jan. 18, 2014 and serving in that capacity until prior to the 2015-16 season.
• Judson (Northern Illinois) also joins associate head coach Tim Buckley (Ball State) and assistant coach Chuck Martin (Marist) as former Division I head coaches on the Hoosier bench.
• The 2015-16 edition of the Hoosiers finished the year ranked No. 9 in the country in the USA Today Coaches Poll and 14th by the Associated Press while claiming the outright Big Ten title. It was the 22nd Big Ten Championship in IU history, which is tied for the most in conference history.
• The Hoosiers also made its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in five seasons, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen for the third time in five seasons after the Hoosiers topped #10 Kentucky, 73-67, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Des Moines.
• The Hoosiers were 8-4 against Top 50 teams and were 17-0 at home, the first undefeated home season for IU since the 2006-07 campaign. The Hoosiers were third in the country in field goal percentage (50.2), fifth in 3-point field goal percentage (41.6), seventh in total three-point field goals (345), 11th in scoring (82.6), 12th in scoring margin (12.7), and 19th in assists (560). Their 345 3-point field goals also established a new school and Big Ten record while the 9.9 3-pointers made per game ranked 12th in the country and tops in the Big Ten. Additionally, the Hoosiers set a new Big Ten record with 178 made 3-point field goals in conference play.
• The Zion, Ill., native has more than 30 years of experience to the IU staff including 27 years on the NCAA Division I level. During his time on the sidelines, he has seen seven players he either recruited or coached play in the NBA and one find a career in the NFL.
• He has worked under head coaches Jim Molinari (Northern Illinois and Bradley), Lon Kruger and Bill Self (Illinois) and Tim Jankovich (Illinois State). He also played for Hall of Famer Lou Henson at Illinois.
• Judson offers Big Ten experience, which spans four decades to the program having played at Illinois from 1976-80, coached at Illinois from 1996-2001 and been with the Hoosiers for two and a half seasons.
• He set the Illinois career free-throw percentage record (.875), earned Academic All-Big Ten laurels (1979 & 1980) and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors (1979) during his collegiate playing career.
• He was an assistant for Illinois from 1996-2001, where he served as a top recruiter for Kruger and Self and watched the Fighting Illini make four NCAA Tournament appearances in five years and win Big Ten crowns in 1998 and 2001. He also was credited with recruiting two Big Ten Players of the Year in Frank Williams and Brian Cook.
• After his stint at Illinois, Judson was named head coach at Northern Illinois University. He spent six years with the Huskies where he took over a team, which won just five games the year before and led NIU to 12 wins in his first season. He then led the Huskies to the first of two 17-win seasons, with a 17-14 record in 2002-03, Judson's 2005-06 squad posted a 17-11 mark and won the only Mid-American Conference West Division Championship in NIU history.
• He then served as an assistant coach at Illinois State from 2007-13 under Jankovich and saw them post a 122-79 record during his stay and made four National Invitation Tournament appearances. In addition, the Redbirds appeared in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament title game on three occasions.
• Judson began his coaching career immediately after graduating from Illinois when he became an assistant coach at Palatine High School in 1980. He became a head coach the following year at Wauconda High School where he stayed from 1981-83 and then became the head coach at Glenbrook South High School from 1984-89.
• He began his collegiate experiences from 1989-91 when he was a part of Molinari’s staff at Northern Illinois which won a Mid-Continent conference title in 1991. He then followed Molinari and became an assistant coach at Bradley from 1991-96 where he helped the Braves to a Missouri Valley Conference championship in 1996. In his five years at Bradley, Judson helped the Braves to three-consecutive 20-win seasons (23-8, 20-10 and 22-8 during 1993-96), and three-straight postseason appearances.
• All totaled, Judson has worked with teams that have earned six NCAA Tournament berths and six invitations to the NIT.
• In 1990, Judson was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Hall of Fame as a player. He currently serves on that organization's Board of Directors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts from Illinois in 1980 and a master's degree in administration from Roosevelt University in 1983.
• Judson and his wife, Dr. Kim Judson, have three grown children, Karin, Matthew and Kristin.
• NBA Players From UI under Judson: Brian Cook (Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando, Houston, Los Angeles Clippers, Washington), Frank Williams (New York, Chicago), Luther Head (Houston, Miami, Indiana, Sacramento), Robert Archibald (Memphis, Phoenix, Orlando, Toronto), Roger Powell, Jr. (Utah).
NBA Players From NIU under Judson: Donald Whiteside (Toronto and Atlanta).
NBA Players From Bradley under Judson: Anthony Parker (Philadelphia, Atlanta and Toronto).
NFL Player From Bradley under Judson: Marcus Pollard (Indianapolis Colts).
