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Among the top rising coaches in college basketball, Jerod Haase returns to the sidelines as an assistant coach in his seventh year with Roy Williams at Carolina. A Naismith and Wooden Award candidate while playing shooting guard at the University of Kansas, Haase is in his 11th season as a member of Williams' staff. In addition to his coaching and team duties, Haase is in his fourth season as the head coach of UNC's junior varsity program. Last season, UNC won its second NCAA championship and made its third Final Four appearance in the last five years. Carolina won the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament after also capturing the conference regular season title. UNC also reached the NCAA Final Four. Kansas and Carolina have combined to win 289 of 355 games (81.4 percent) in his 10 years on Williams' staff. Haase attended the University of California in 1992-93, and then transferred to Kansas. He helped lead the Jayhawks to three consecutive conference titles and finished his career ranked in the Top 10 among school leaders in assists, three-point field goals and steals. He started 99 of 101 games at Kansas and scored 1,264 points, averaging 12.5 per game and reaching double figures 74 times. As a senior, Haase started with Jacque Vaughn, Scot Pollard, Paul Pierce and Raef LaFrentz as Kansas went 34-2. He averaged 12.0 points despite playing with a broken wrist. He scored a career-high 30 points against Temple as a junior. That year he was named to the Big Eight All-Defensive Team. He scored 16 points, including the game-winning three-point field goal, to beat Arizona, 83-80, in the 1996 NCAA regional semifinal. As a sophomore in 1994-95, the South Lake Tahoe, Calif., native was named the Big Eight Conference Newcomer of the Year and was a second-team all-conference selection. He led Kansas with 15.0 points a game. He started 23 games in 1992-93 as a freshman at Cal, where he teamed in the backcourt with Jason Kidd. Haase scored 13 points in the Bears' NCAA second round win over Duke. In 1995, Haase teamed with Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson and Kerry Kittles to win the gold medal at the World University Games. A 1997 Kansas graduate in business administration, Haase was a first-team GTE Academic All-America as a senior. He was also a second-team Academic All-America in 1996 and was academic all-conference for three years. He earned a Master's of Science degree in business at KU in 2000. Haase, who roomed with C.B. McGrath in college, co-wrote Floor Burns, detailing the 1996-97 KU season, which sold more than 30,000 copies. Floor burns are a statistic the Kansas stat crew created in honor of Haase, who had 165 of them as a junior. He has also produced a basketball instructional video. Born April 1, 1974, Haase is one of five brothers and sisters to play intercollegiate sports. He was married to the former Mindy Meidinger of Lenexa, Kan., in 1999. The couple has two sons, Gavin (born in September 2006) and Garrett (born in July 2009). |
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