Loos Going Into OVC Hall of Fame

Editor: The following is part of a press release by ovcsports.com.

(Brentwood, TN) – Former Austin Peay men’s basketball coach and Director of Athletics Dave Loos and former Morehead State President Dr. Wayne Andrews have been elected into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame. They will be officially inducted at the annual OVC Honors Brunch which will be held Friday, June 1 at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Nashville.

The Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame was organized in 1977 with the intent of honoring the coaches, administrators, faculty and staff that have been associated with the OVC for at least five years and provided extensive and outstanding service to the Conference. With the induction of this year’s class, the membership will reach 83.

Loos is the winningest coach in OVC men’s basketball history, compiling 421 overall and 257 league victories over his career at Austin Peay (1990-2017). Including his four seasons at Christian Brothers prior to taking over at Austin Peay, Loos reached 502 career victories, becoming just the 97th coach with at least 10 years of Division I experience to reach that milestone.

Loos is the only men’s basketball coach to win five OVC Coach of the Year awards (1990, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2007) and he led Austin Peay to four OVC Tournament Championships (1996, 2003, 2008, 2016), equaling the all-time OVC mark by a coach. In 2017 he led the Governors to four victories in four days to become the first No. 8 seed to claim the tournament crown.

Loos coached some of the top players in OVC men’s basketball history, including Charles “Bubba” Wells, Trenton Hassell and Drake Reed, each of who was named OVC Player of the Year. He guided the 2003-04 team to a perfect 16-0 OVC record, which is one of just two unbeaten regular seasons since the 1970-71 season.

Loos also served as Austin Peay Director of Athletics for 16 years (1997-2013), including be the only coach nationally to hold both roles over his final seven years. His leadership resulted in Austin Peay winning 33 OVC regular season or tournament championships, establishing a women’s soccer program, implementing the return of women’s golf, returning football from non-scholarship status back to the OVC and overseeing construction and improvements to numerous athletic facilities. Additionally, the department earned two OVC Academic Achievement Banners (2002-03, 2008-09), saw 16 Academic All-Americans and 13 OVC Scholar-Athletes during his tenure.

A Missouri native, Loos played both basketball and baseball at Memphis State, where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2002.

Andrews served as Morehead State’s President from January 2005 until his retirement in June 2017. Andrews twice served as the Chair of the OVC Board of Presidents and was the longtime chair of the OVC’s Finance Committee.

Andrews was instrumental in helping build the EAGLE (Eagle Athletics Guided Learning and Enhancement Center) Center, one of the finest academic-oriented facilities in the nation. The facility was designed to give MSU student-athletes a place to focus on academic responsibilities and work toward their college degrees and includes computer labs, learning labs and study space.