Bob Chipman (basketball)
Bob Chipman (born May 18, 1951) is a retired American college basketball coach who led Washburn University from 1979 to 2017. A guard in his playing days, he played at Mott Community College (1969–1971) and Kansas State (1971–1973) before starting a long coaching career. He was Washburn’s assistant coach from 1976 to 1979 and then the head coach for 38 seasons.
Chipman finished his career with 808 wins and 353 losses, ranking as the 24th-winningest coach in college basketball history. His Washburn teams won the NAIA national championship in 1987 and the NCAA Division II national runner-up in 2001, with a Final Four/Elite Eight run in 1992–93 and 1994, and another Final Four regional appearance in 2001.
His teams captured ten MIAA regular-season titles (1992–1995, 1997, 2001, 2003–2005, 2012) and four MIAA tournament titles (1992, 1994, 1997, 2001). They also earned two CSIC regular-season titles (1987, 1988) and the 1987 CSIC tournament. Chipman was named MIAA Coach of the Year three times (1992, 1993, 2004).
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