championships coach_years birth_place overall_record coach_team awards sport birth_date article_title name
1979 tournament championship : mvc regular season championship 1979 : mvc 1970 1982 -- 1984 1986 -- 1991 1991 -- 1997 -- 1974 1974 -- 1978 1978 -- 1982 zionsville , indiana 239 -- 208 -lrb- .535 -rrb- tennessee -rrb- indiana state long beach state -lrb- asst. -rrb- georgia tech college mercer -lrb- asst. -rrb- indiana state -lrb- asst. 1979 the year '' '' ap coach of the year '' : '' upi coach of the year '' '' the sporting '' news coach of the year '' missouri valley conf . coach of basketball 09 march 1943 bill hodges
 bill hodges
bill hodges

william oscar hodges -lrb- born march 9 , 1943 -rrb- is an american former ncaa head basketball coach .
he was the head coach at indiana state university from 1978 -- 1982 ; at the georgia college and state university from 1986 -- 1991 and at mercer university from 1991 -- 1997 .
as an assistant basketball coach at indiana state university , he recruited larry bird after bird had dropped out of indiana university .
before the start of the 1978 -- 79 season , he got the indiana state university job after head coach bob king suffered a brain aneurysm .
he led the sycamores to a second-place finish in the 1979 ncaa men 's division i basketball tournament .
during that year , he won several coach of the year awards , including the upi 's and ap 's .
the sycamores were selected as the united press international collegiate champions .
his later indiana state teams would never reach the same heights , leading to his resignation from isu after the 1982 season .
hodges is currently # 7 in coaching wins at indiana state with a record of 67 -- 48 -lrb- .583 -rrb- and # 5 in wins at mercer with a record of 62 -- 107 -lrb- .367 -rrb- .
his record at georgia college was 110 -- 53 -lrb- .675 -rrb- .
his overall collegiate head coaching record is 239 -- 208 -lrb- .535 -rrb- .
hodges is a graduate of purdue university .
his last coaching stint was at north cross school in roanoke , va from 2011 to 2013 , where he led the raiders to the visaa state tournament where they upset carlisle school in the semifinals and went on to play for the state title , but came up just short .
