IBCA Clinic a ‘go’ for April 22-23 at Lawrence North
Brey, Cullop and Holtmann to be featured at first two-day, in-person gathering since 2019
Three NCAA Division I coaches and a number of high school coaches highlight the agenda for the 2022 Indiana Basketball Coaches Association annual clinic, returning to an in-person event in the spring for the first time since 2019.
Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, Toledo’s Tricia Cullop and Ohio State’s Chris Holtmann are headliners on an itinerary that also includes a round-table of former coaches, an IBCA Issues & Answers session and sessions with nearly a dozen high school coaches.
Sessions begin at 10 a.m. Friday, April 22 and run through 7:45 p.m. at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. Sessions resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 23 and conclude about noon. Cost to attend the clinic is $50 for current-year IBCA members and $100 for non-members.
In addition to the featured speakers, 10 of the 12 IBCA Coaches of the Year will offer their secrets to success. Boys coaches scheduled to speak are Brent Dalrymple of North Daviess, Travis Hannah of John Glenn, Kirk Manns of Seymour, Ben Rhoades of Mt. Vernon (Fortville) and Marc Urban of Chesterton. Girls coaches on the itinerary include Donna Buckley of Noblesville, Tony Hasenour of Forest Park, Joe Huppenthal of Lake Central, Bob Lapadot of Garrett and Ginny Smith of Westfield. Also, Monroe Central boys’ assistant Bryan Matheny will speak in lieu of Monroe Central boys’ head coach Justin Ullom.
A roundtable of retired coaches tips off the clinic agenda. Former coaches Tom Megyesi, John Milholland and Marvin Tudor will be on a panel moderated by Indiana SportsTalk host Bob Lovell. The three coaches will discuss steps that they took to make their programs successful for the long run. Questions from those in attendance will be encouraged.
The 2020 IBCA Clinic was converted to an all-virtual format because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 IBCA Clinic was split into two parts – a virtual clinic with high school coaches as speakers last April and a one-day, in-person clinic with featured speakers last October – also because of COVID-19. The 2022 Clinic is the IBCA’s first one in three years with the “normal” two-day, in-person format.
To register, go to in.nhsbca.org, click on the “Clinic Registration” button near the top of the home page and then complete the form.
We hope to see you there.
Featured Speakers
Mike Brey, Notre Dame
Mike Brey recently completed his 22nd season as the Notre Dame men’s basketball coach, guiding the Fighting Irish to a 24-11 record, a 15-5 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
During his time in South Bend, Brey has amassed a 472-259 with 13 NCAA Tournament berths and five other postseason appearances during his tenure. His 2014-15 Fighting Irish compiled a program-best 32-6 record, won the ACC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA “Elite Eight.”
Other notable Notre Dame seasons included NCAA Tournament berths in 2001 (20-10), 2002 (22-10), 2003 (24-10 and Sweet 16), 2007 (24-8), 2008 (25-8), 2010 (23-12), 2011 (27-7), 2012 (22-12), 2013 (25-10), 2016 (24-12 and Elite Eight) and 2017 (26-10).
Brey was chosen national Coach of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the Associated Press in 2011. He also was voted Big East Coach of the Year in 2007, 2008 and 2011. He was named the NABC District 10 Coach of the Year in 2003. He also was chosen America East Conference co-Coach of the Year while at Delaware in 1997.
In addition, Brey was presented the 2008 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award, which goes to an NCAA men’s Division I coach who exhibits strong moral character, and the 2014 Ray Meyer Coach Award, presented by the Chicago-based Ed Kelly Sports Foundation to an individual who has made significant professional and person contributions to his community.
Brey, a 1982 George Washington University graduate, served as an assistant coach at Duke for eight years and head coach at the University of Delaware for five years with a record of 99-52, two America East Conference titles and two NCAA Tournament appearances before moving to South Bend. Brey played three seasons at Northwestern State in Louisiana, then transferred to GWU and played one season there in 1980-81.
Before becoming a college coach, Brey played for and coached with legendary coach Morgan Wootten at DeMatha High School in Washington, D.C. Brey played two years at DeMatha, helping the Stags to a 55-9 record. After his graduation from GWU, Brey spent five seasons as a DeMatha assistant coach, helping the program go 139-22 with four league titles and a national No. 1 ranking by USA Today in 1984.
Brey then assisted coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke from 1987-95 before becoming a head coach at Delaware from 1995-2000. He has been inducted into the George Washington University and the University of Delaware athletic Halls of Fame.
In addition to his sideline success, Brey currently serves on the “Coaches vs. Cancer” national council and has helped raise more than $3 million for the American Cancer Society. He also has partnered with the American Heart Association to create the “Men of Heart” initiative, raising funds and awareness for men’s heart health.
Brey also is on the National Advisory Board of the Positive Coaching Alliance, and he served as president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 2019-20.
Tricia Cullop, University of Toledo
Tricia Cullop has led the University of Toledo women’s basketball program to tremendous success over 14 seasons. Chief among her teams is her 2021-22 squad, which posted a 29-6 mark in the recently completed campaign, including a 19-1 record in the Mid-American Conference and a quarterfinal appearance in the postseason Women’s NIT. The 29 victories a school record for most wins in a season, matching the total of UT’s 2010-11 and 2012-13 teams.
During her 14 seasons, the Rockets have posted a 296-158 overall mark and a 161-85 MAC ledger. Her 296 victories are the most in program history, and she has averaged a MAC-best 21.1 wins per season during her tenure.
Overall, Cullop has a 22-year record of 419-268 as a college head coach. That total includes eight seasons at the University of Evansville, where she compiled a 123-110 slate that included a Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title in 2008 and a berth in the Women’s NIT.
At Toledo, Cullop has directed her Rockets to eight Women’s NIT appearances, including the 2011 WNIT championship, and one NCAA Tournament berth in 2017. Her teams have won the MAC regular-season title three times and the MAC Tournament once. She has been named the MAC Coach of the Year four times (2009, 2011, 2013 and 2022) and the WBCA Region 4 Coach of the Year in 2013.
Cullop is one of just three coaches to be honored as MAC Coach of the Year four or more times, joining former Bowling Green coach Curt Miller (six times) and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen (four times).
This year, Cullop also was presented the 2022 WBCA Carol Eckman Integrity in Coaching Award. The award is given to a coach who exemplifies Eckman’s spirit, integrity and character through sportsmanship, commitment to the student-athlete, honesty, ethical behavior, courage and dedication to purpose. In addition, her program has raised more than $157,000 in an annual cancer-benefit game over the past 13 years.
A native of Bicknell, Ind., Cullop is a 1989 graduate of North Knox High School where she scored 1,461 career points while playing for coach Rick Marshall and was chosen to the Indiana All-Stars.
Cullop went on to play for coach Lin Dunn at Purdue University from 1989-93. In West Lafayette, she appeared in 104 career games, was a captain as a senior, helped the Boilermakers to the program’s first Big Ten title in 1991 and played in three NCAA Tournaments 1990, 1991 and 1992 – twice making the NCAA Sweet 16. She also was a three-time Academic all-Big Ten honoree, the Mortar Board Student-Athlete of the Year and the recipient of Red Mackey Award.
Cullop joined the coaching ranks after graduation. She was as an assistant for two years at Radford University, one year at Long Beach State and four years at Xavier University. She helped Radford qualify for two NCAA Tournament appearances in 1994 and 1995 as well as Xavier earn an NCAA spot in 2000.
She then became a head coach at Evansville, guiding the Aces through a building phase that was capped by an MVC regular-season title, WNIT berth and MVC Coach of the Year accolades in 2008. She has gone on to outstanding success at Toledo and is highly respected by her peers, indicated by her election to a two-year term as president of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association from 2019 to 2021.
Chris Holtmann, Ohio State
Chris Holtmann recently completed his fifth season as the Ohio State University men’s basketball coach, guiding the Buckeyes to a 20-12 season that included include a 12-8 Big Ten finish and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
During his tenure in Columbus, Holtmann’s teams have posted a 107-56 ledger with four NCAA tournament berths. The only season his Buckeyes did not play in the NCAA Tournament was 2019-20 when the tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was the Big Ten Coach of the Year and the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year in 2018 after leading the Buckeyes to a 25-9 record, a 15-3 Big Ten mark and a second-round NCAA Tournament appearance. He also was the District 7 NABC Coach of the Year, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association District V Coach of the Year and a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award that season.
OSU went 20-15 and again reached the NCAA Tournament second round in 2018-19. The Buckeyes were 21-10 and positioned for another NCAA appearance in 2019-20 with victories over four Top-10 opponents and four conference champions. In 2020-21, OSU went 21-10, finishing as runner-up in the Big Ten Tournament and earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
In 11 seasons as a college head coach, Holtmann has amassed a 221-141 record with seven NCAA Tournament appearances. That includes a 70-31 record and three NCAA berths in three seasons at Butler and a 44-54 mark in three seasons at Gardner-Webb. His teams have won 20 games or more in each of the last nine seasons.
A native of Nicholasville, Ky., Holtmann was an NAIA All-America guard as a player at Taylor University while playing for coach Paul Patterson. Holtmann helped lead the Trojans to a 29-5 record, a No. 1 national ranking and a berth in the NAIA National Tournament as a senior in 1993-94.
After college, he served as a graduate assistant coach at Taylor in 1997-98, spent one season as an assistant coach at Geneva College and then returned to Taylor as an assistant to Patterson for four years. In his final two seasons as a Taylor assistant, the Trojans posted a 50-16 record, won back-to-back conference titles and were ranked in the “Top 15” of the NAIA national poll.
Holtmann then moved Gardner-Webb for five seasons as an assistant, the last four as associate head coach. There, he worked for Rick Scruggs and helped the Runnin’ Bulldogs to a post a 69-81 record while members of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Holtmann became an assistant for two seasons at Ohio University, working for fellow Taylor alumnus and former Butler assistant John Groce. While there, the Bobcats went 37-32, won the 2010 Mid-American Conference Tournament and beat Georgetown in the first round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
Holtmann returned to Gardner-Webb as head coach in 2010-11, leading the North Carolina school through a successful rebuilding effort. He took the Runnin’ Bulldogs from eight wins in the season that preceded his arrival to a school Division I-record 20 victories and a berth in the CollegeInsider postseason Tournament in his third year. Gardner-Webb won 10 of its final 11 games in 2012-13 and was runner-up in the Big South Conference. For his efforts, Holtmann was named the 2013 Big South Conference Coach of the Year and NABC District 3 Coach of the Year.
He then became an assistant coach at Butler in 2013-14. The next fall, Holtmann found himself back in the lead chair when Brandon Miller requested a leave of absence in October 2014. Holtmann initially was appointed interim head coach and was elevated to permanent head coach in January 2015.
At Butler, his first team went 23-11, qualified for the NCAA Tournament and he was a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year and the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year awards in 2015. His second Butler team went 22-11 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2016. And his third Butler team went 25-9, reached the NCAA Sweet 16 and he was named Big East Conference Coach of the Year in 2017. He also was a finalist for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award in 2017.
Holtmann earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Taylor in 1994 and a master’s degree in athletic administration from Ball State in 2000. He and his wife, Lori, have one daughter, Nora Jane.
Round-Table Panelists
Tom Megyesi
Tom Megyesi accomplished pretty much everything a basketball coach could hope to attain during his time on the sidelines in Indiana gymnasiums.
>> Indiana high school championship – check, in 1994 with the Lake Central Indians.
>> Indiana All-Star players – check, check and check, with Kristina Divjak in 1995 as well as Kelly Komara and Kelly Kuhn in 1998.
>> An Indiana Miss Basketball – check, with Komara in 1998.
>> Indiana All-Star coach – check, in 1995.
>> A second act as a college head coach – check, from 2007 through 2019 at Purdue University-Calumet (later renamed Purdue University-Northwest) in Hammond.
>> Induction into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame – check, in 2015.
All together, it was an outstanding coaching career for the Michigan native who took over leadership of the Lake Central girls’ program in the fall of 1982. In 24 seasons, Megyesi led the Indians to a 370-164 record that included 11 sectional trophies, four regional titles, three semi-state crowns and the aforementioned state championship. His team also was the Class 4A state runner-up in 1998 and reached the four-team State Finals in 1995. He was voted an IBCA District 1 Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1998 while collecting numerous other coach-of-the-year accolades.
Megyesi directed Washington Township High School in Valparaiso to a 10-12 mark in 2006-07 for a final Indiana high school ledger of 380-176 mark in 25 seasons, then took over the Purdue-Calumet program in the fall of 2007.
In 12 seasons at the college level, he guided the program to a 192-168 ledger with multiple 20-win seasons and being named Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2014. His tenure with the Peregrines included four trips to Nationals and a 185-124 mark in 10 NAIA seasons before the renamed Purdue-Northwest Pride moved to the NCAA Division II level and the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in his final two seasons.
A 1968 graduate of Okemos High School in Michigan, Megyesi attended Michigan State University and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1974. He later earned a master’s degree from Michigan State in 1982. He was a junior high teacher for five years and a high school varsity coach for one year in Waterford, Mich., before moving to Indiana. He came to Lake Central as a teacher in 1980-81 and became the school’s varsity girls basketball coach starting in 1982-83.
Megyesi and his wife, Jan, have been married for 50 years. The couple has three adult children – Lori, Mike and Mark – and five grandchildren.
John Milholland
John Milholland was an outstanding player, an outstanding coach and an outstanding administrator, and he eagerly shares lessons he learned from throughout his playing, coaching and professional careers.
Milholland is well known in Indiana as the boys’ basketball coach at Frankfort, where he compiled a 286-133 record in 18 seasons that included eight sectional championships, two regional titles and five conference crowns. His overall coaching record is 381-214 in 26 seasons at five schools as a varsity coach. Together, his teams won nine sectionals, two regionals and seven conference championships.
A 1954 graduate of Westville High School in Illinois, where he played for legendary coach Virgil Sweet (before Sweet coached at Valparaiso), Milholland was a high school star who matriculated to Eastern Illinois University and graduated in 1958.
While at EIU, he scored a then-school-record 1,655 points that still ranks seventh on the Panthers’ all-time list. He was a three-time all-conference player in college, was chosen to the all-tournament team in the NAIA Nationals in 1957 and averaged 20.4 points for his college career – still the school’s second-best all-time average. In 2010, he was named to the EIU All-Century Team.
After college, Milholland began his coaching career in 1958-59 as an assistant coach at Chesterton. He was the Trojans’ head coach in 1959-60, then he followed as head coach at Middlebury for two seasons, Thorntown for one season and Whiteland for four seasons before taking over at Frankfort for the 1967-68 season. He guided the Hot Dogs for 18 years, becoming the school’s second-winningest coach (behind Everett Case) and having the floor in Case Arena named for him at John Milholland Court. He was an IBCA District 3 Coach of the Year in 1977 and 1985.
Milholland, who earned advanced degrees from Indiana University in 1965 and 1974, also was an assistant principal from 1973 through 1990. He then served as the Frankfort principal from 1990 through 2001 to complete a 43-year career in education (1958-2001). He also has been active with the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, serving several years on its executive committee, a two-year term as its president and currently as a director emeritus.
Milholland was inducted into EIU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986, into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 into the Frankfort High School Hall of Fame in 2019 and into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame as a player in 2021. He currently is employed by Joe Risse Realty.
Milholland and his wife, Connie, have been married for 62 years. They have two daughters, Lisa and Susan, and four grandsons.
Marvin Tudor
Marvin Tudor guided three Indiana high school basketball teams to 11 sectional championships and one regional crown during a 17-year varsity coaching career that spanned from 1961 to 1978. During stops at Triton Central, Plymouth and Huntington North, his teams were noted for solid defense and a well-organized offense en route to compiling a 292-108 record with 16 winning seasons.
Tudor is a 1956 graduate of Eminence High School, where he scored 1,162 points and led Morgan County in scoring as both a junior and senior with respective 22- and 23-point averages. He played his first three seasons for the Eels under coach Larry Cline. After the Eminence gym burned down in a fire in the spring of 1955, Tudor and the Eels had all practices and games at either Monrovia or Stilesville during his senior year while playing for coach Bill Fisher.
Tudor’s efforts in high school earned him a four-year tuition scholarship to Butler University, where he played four seasons for Hall of Fame coach Tony Hinkle and graduated in 1960. For the Bulldogs, Tudor was a backup player but noted that he “learned a lot from the bench and during practice.”
After college, Tudor spent one season as an assistant coach at Mooresville before beginning his varsity coaching career in the fall of 1961 at Triton Central. His first two teams worked hard, and his third and fourth group of Tigers went a combined 41-4 before falling in the sectional to No. 1-ranked Columbus in 1964 and Shelbyville in 1965. Tudor moved to Plymouth for the next two seasons, guiding the Pilgrims to a 38-10 mark and a sectional title in 1967.
He then went to Huntington North, succeeding Hall of Fame coach Bob Straight. In 11 seasons there, Tudor’s squad lost its sectional opener in 1968 but the Vikings followed with 10 sectional trophies in a row. They also won the 1969 Kokomo Regional before falling 55-52 to undefeated Marion in that year’s Fort Wayne Semi-State.
Tudor then became the Huntington North athletic director from 1978-86 and followed by serving six years as assistant principal at Riverview Middle School in Huntington. He completed his 42 years in education with a 10-year assignment as principal of Riverview Middle School, retiring in 2002.
While coaching, Tudor noted that he attended numerous clinics, especially any clinic where John Wooden was on the agenda. He also worked multiple camps, including the Indiana University camp for Bob Knight for several years.
“We ran the ‘Hinkle System,’ of course, but we also ran other plays,” Tudor said. “I wanted our teams to shoot a lot of free throws, so I stressed getting to the basket and making sure we rebounded well. We picked up ideas from other coaches whenever we could. We used some of them, and we didn’t use some of them.”
During his coaching tenure, Tudor was one of the 12 coaches who helped found the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association in 1971, serving on the IBCA Board of Directors and as the IBCA president in 1977-78. He was named IBCA District 2 Coach of the Year in 1974, and he was presented an IBCA Virgil Sweet Award in 2002.
Tudor was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 and later became involved with the Hall of Fame’s committees. He served on its board of directors from 2003-07, as secretary from 2007-09, as executive vice president from 2009-11 and as president from 2011-13. He remains a Hall of Fame director emeritus.
Tudor and his wife, Jeanette, have been married 63 years. They have two daughters, Kathy and Cindy, as well as four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
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2022 IBCA Clinic itinerary
Friday, April 22
Main Gym, Lawrence North High School
10:00-10:55 a.m. Round-Table Discussion: Moderator, Bob Lovell
Retired coaches: Tom Megyesi, John Milholland and Marvin Tudor
11:00-11:30 a.m. Welcome, IBCA Issues & Answers: Craig Teagle, Marty Johnson, Tom Beach
11:35-12:10 p.m. Ben Rhoades, Mt. Vernon (Fortville): “Point Motion Offense”
12:15-12:50 p.m. Ginny Smith, Westfield: “Half-Court Defensive Principles”
12:55-1:30 p.m. Bryan Matheny, Monroe Central assistant (for Justin Ullom): “Practicing With Pace”
1:30-2:15 p.m. Sandwich Break
2:20-2:55 p.m. Marc Urban, Chesterton: “Building Your Defensive System”
3:00-3:35 p.m. Donna Buckley, Noblesville: “1-3-1 Zone Defense”
3:40-4:15 p.m. Travis Hannah, John Glenn: “Program Building”
4:20-5:15 p.m. Tricia Cullop, University of Toledo
5:20-5:55 p.m. Brent Dalrymple, North Daviess: “Building, Nurturing and Maintaining a Program”
6:00-6:40 p.m. Awards Program
Virgil Sweet Awards
Roy Gardner/Mildred Ball Awards
Administrators of the Year
State Champion and Runner-up Coaches
PGC Awards and Assistant Coaches of the Year
Century Awards
introduction of College Coaches in attendance
6:40-6:50 p.m. Break (Door Prize and Cash giveaways)
6:50-7:45 p.m. Mike Brey, University of Notre Dame
Saturday, April 23
Main Gym, Lawrence North High School
8:00-8:30 a.m. Donuts and Coffee
8:30-9:00 a.m. Tony Hasenour, Forest Park: “Spatial Awareness, Balance and Warm-up Drills”
9:05-9:35 a.m. Joe Huppenthal, Lake Central: “Defensive Drills”
9:40-10:10 a.m. Kirk Manns, Seymour: “Team Culture”
10:15-11:10 a.m. Chris Holtmann, The Ohio State University
11:15-11:45 a.m. Bob Lapadot, Garrett: “Coaching Outside The Box”
