Jim McGregor (basketball)

Jim McGregor
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Basketball
Born	(1921-12-30)December 30, 1921 Portland, Oregon
Died	July 30, 2013( 2013-07-30) (aged 91) Bellevue, Washington
Alma mater	Minnesota USC
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1946–1948	Benson High School (Portland, OR)
1948–1950	USC (asst.)
1950–1953	Whitworth College
1954-1956	Italy National Team
1956	Greece National Team
1957	Turkey National Team
1958	Austria National Team
1959	Sweden National Team
1960	Turkey National Team
1961-63	Peru National Team
1965-66	New Mexico State
Accomplishments and honors
Records
Inland Empire Coach of the Year (1952)

Jim McGregor (December 30, 1921-July 30, 2013) was the head men's basketball coach at Whitworth College (1950-53), and New Mexico State (1965–66). He also coached many international teams including Italy (1954-56), Greece, Turkey (1960, for the Olympics), Sweden, Austria, Peru, Morocco, Central Africa, Colombia, and a number of league European league teams. McGregor graduated from Grant High School in Portland, Oregon. He served in the Marines during World War 2. He He was also pioneer in promoting American basketball to European teams by taking players that had not been drafted by the NBA and playing exhibition games against European teams. Many players from these teams were signed to contracts to play in Europe - far before this became a commonplace. McGregor received fees when these players signed contracts - and thus an early agent in international basketball. McGregor was induced into the Grant High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011. McGregor died on July 30, 2013.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall
New Mexico State Aggies (Independent) (1965–1966)
1965–66	New Mexico State	4-22
New Mexico State:		4-22 (.154)
Total:		4-22 (.154)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

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New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1904–1906)
John O. Miller (1906–1908)
V. Kays (1908–1909)
George Lain (1909–1910)
Art Badenoch (1910–1913)
No team (1913–1914)
Clarence W. Russell (1914–1917)
John G. Griffith (1917–1920)
Dutch Bergman (1920–1922)
R. R. Brown (1922–1926)
Arthur Burkholder (1926–1927)
Ted R. Coffman (1927–1929)
Jerry Hines (1929–1940)
Julius J. Johnston (1940–1942)
No team (1942–1944)
Kermit Laabs (1944–1946)
Jerry Hines (1946–1947)
John Gunn (1947–1949)
George McCarty (1949–1953)
Presley Askew (1953–1965)
Jim McGregor (1965–1966)
Lou Henson (1966–1975)
Ken Hayes (1975–1979)
Weldon Drew (1979–1985)
Neil McCarthy (1985–1997)
Lou Henson (1997–2005)
Tony Stubblefield # (2004–2005)
Reggie Theus (2005–2007)
Marvin Menzies (2007–2016)
Paul Weir (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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