Austin Peay head coach Dave Loos is stepping away after 27 seasons, the school announced Thursday. He will hold a formal news conference Monday to announce his retirement.
During Loos’ tenure, the Governors went to the NCAA Tournament times and made two appearances in the NIT, one in the CBI and one in the CIT. Austin Peay most recently made the NCAA Tournament last year before falling to Kansas in the first round.
Loos missed four games earlier this season while he underwent chemotherapy for a cancerous lymph node in his colon, but later returned to the team and won his 500th game in February. Known as the Dean of the Ohio Valley Conference, he walks away as the all-time winningest coach in the conference, having won five OVC Coach of the Year honors and nine conference titles along the way.
The Governors went 11-19 (7-9 OVC) this season and failed to qualify for the conference tournament after finishing below .500 for the fifth time in the past six seasons.
