AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY

You can’t exactly call Tom Billeter’s introduction to college basketball coaching inauspicious. Billeter was a 23-year-old grad student working a basketball camp down in Arizona. He had actually started with the younger kids and worked his way up to running the entire youth camp. Billeter spent two seasons (1985-87) on Olson’s staff at Arizona, and that catapulted him into college basketball. That’s where it all started. The 55-year-old Billeter has been with Augustana ever since. And he guided the Vikings to an NCAA Division II national championship last season, and for his efforts was named Division II Coach of the Year.-Jeremy Hoeck, Yankton. Read More.