Loos Is Returning To Austin Peay

(St. Louis, MO) – The ‘dean’ of the Ohio Valley Conference coaches will return for another season. Tuesday, Austin Peay Athletics Directory Ryan Ivey announced that Dave Loos will patrol the Governor side-line this coming season.

Loos, who led APSU to the OVC Tournament championship and an NCAA Tournament bid returns for his 27th season as head man in Clarksville. His contract had run out and the coach and the school had to decide if he was coming back.

The former St. Louis area high school coach is nine wins shy of 500 (491) during his college coaching career and has produced a record of 409-391 at Austin Peay. His four OVC tournament victories are tied for the most in league history and his 409 wins are the all-time best mark.

Loos has been named OVC coach of the year five times, and is a member of five different athletics halls-of-fame.

He agreed to a one-year extension, but Ivey told letsgopeay.com he sees Loos as the team’s head coach for the foreseeable future.

Austin Peay’s magical run to the OVC Tournament title  caught the imagination of the nation as the eighth seeded Governors reeled off four tournament wins, all while Coach Loos’ granddaughter Rhyan was battling cancer in a New York hospital, and then winning the tournament on his 69th birthday.

The Governors lose two of their top three scorers to graduation, but return emerging junior-to-be Josh Robinson (16.9 ppg), fourth leading scorer and second leading rebounder Kenny Jones (7.9 & 5.3), sophomore to be Jared Savage who scored 67 points during the four game sweep of ‘Music City Madness’, and John Murry who returned from injury during the tournament and scored 44 points in the team’s final five games.

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