There’s at least one Iowa connection in tonights men’s national college basketball championship game between Virginia and Texas Tech.
Former Loras College head basketball coach Brad Soderberg is a top assistant coach at Virginia for Tony Bennett. Soderberg was head coach at Loras in Dubuque from 1988 through 1993. He says that time in Dubuque, has helped him be a top assistant for Virginia
He also had head coaching stints at South Dakota State, St. Louis University, and Lindenwood. Soderberg played for Tony Bennett’s father at Wisconsin-Stevens Point and later coached under Dick Bennett at Wisconsin, where he eventually was the interim head coach.