Who is Steve Prohm?

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Steve Prohm talks about his new position as head coach of the ISU men’s basketball team at a press conference on Tuesday, June 9 in the Sukup basketball complex.

Chris Wolff

Iowa State formally announced Steve Prohm as the new men’s basketball head coach at a press conference Tuesday morning at Sukup Basketball Complex.

Now that Prohm is the next coach of the Cyclones, here are some quick facts about his life and career:

Before coming to Ames, Prohm racked up a 104-29 record in four years as the head coach of the Murray State Racers.

Prohm led Murray State to two NCAA tournament appearances and an NIT Final Four appearance. The 2014-15 campaign witnessed the Racers build a 29-6 overall record. They were ranked No. 8 in the nation in scoring at 79 points per game.

Before getting the head coaching gig at Murray State in 2011, Prohm served as an assistant coach at the school from 2006-11. Before that, he was an assistant from 2005-06 at Tulane, an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana from 1999-2005 and an assistant at Centenary during the 1998-99 season.

Prohm began his coaching career before graduating college. He spent five years as a student assistant coach and a student manager at Alabama, where he graduated from in 1997.

He is a Vienna, Va., native and graduated from Northwest Whitfield High School in Tunnel Hill, Ga.

He has a wife, Katie, and an infant son, Cass.