Jeff Neubauer is an American college basketball coach born in Gainesville, Florida and the current head men's basketball coach at Eastern Kentucky University. Not many college basketball players get the chance to play for a program that averages a postseason trip every two years, but that is what EKU players have experienced under head coach Jeff Neubauer. The Colonels have made four trips to national postseason tournaments in Neubauer?s nine seasons as head coach. This past March, Eastern nearly upset No. 2 seed Kansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. EKU led the Jayhawks by nine in the first half and still had the lead with 8:55 left in the game. The Colonels trailed by only three with 3:39 on the clock. Eastern held the lead for more than half the game. In Eastern Kentucky?s 93 seasons of basketball before Neubauer became the head coach, the team made only seven appearances in national postseason tournaments. The Colonels have now made four trips in the past nine seasons, including back-to-back appearances for the first time. The past four seasons have been like none other. 

January 27th, 1971 in Gainesville (Age 53)