Thursday 28th March 2024

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.

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