Louisiana-Monroe’s Mike Vining and His All-Time Winning Ways

By far the Southland Conference’s all-time winningest coach, Mike Vining led the Northeast Louisiana/Louisiana-Monroe men’s basketball program as the league’s standard-bearer for many years. Vining led the Indians to 401 wins (383 as a Southland member), and made seven NCAA tournament appearances and an NIT berth in his 24 seasons leading the program.

With six 20-win seasons and nine conference championships, Vining also coaches 46 all-conference players, including seven league players of the year and five newcomers of the year. Sixteen of his players surpassed the 1,000-point scoring plateau, and 7-footer Wojciech Myrda set the NCAA record in career blocks in 2002.

For his remarkable coaching efforts, Vining was selected for induction into the Southland Conference Hall of Honor in 2006, and he entered the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

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