Danny Manning

Danny Manning was a star high school player in Kansas, and then went to the University of Kansas, where he led them to the 1988 NCAA Championship. He was chosen Most Outstanding Player of the 1988 Final Four, and won three major College Player of the Year awards as a senior.

Manning was the 1st overall pick in the 1988 NBA Draft, taken by the Los Angeles Clippers. Manning played with the Clippers from 1988-94, and then bounced around the league. He was with the Atlanta Hawks in 1994, then the Phoenix Suns in 1994-99, the Milwaukee Bucks in 1999-2000, the Utah Jazz in 2000-01, the Dallas Mavericks in 2001-02, and the Detroit Pistons in 2003, before retiring. Manning was an NBA All-Star in 1993 and 1994.

Manning returned to Kansas where he worked from 2003-06 as director of student-athlete development and then was an assistant coach at Kansas from 2006-12. In 2012 Manning moved to the University of Tulsa, where he was named head coach. He coached at Tulsa for two years and was then named head coach at Wake Forest University in 2014.