Rob Jeter

Rob Jeter

Rob Jeter is the current coach of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers basketball team.

Personal

Rob Jeter (born May 15, 1969 in Pittsburgh, PA) grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Bob Jeter, is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and his brother, Carlton Jeter, played basketball alongside Rob at UW-Platteville. Jeter and his wife, Deanna, have a six-year old son, Robert, and a three-year-old son, Jonathan.

Early athletics

Jeter attended high school at Quigley South Preparatory School, and then played collegiate basketball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where he played under coach Bo Ryan from 1987-91 as a starting forward.

Jeter was the captain of his team when they won the 1991 NCAA Division III tournament and was named to the All-Final Four team. Jeter holds UW-Platteville records for career field goal percentage (.601) and consecutive starts (89). He played on a national championship team that averaged more than 97 points per game. In four years as a player, Jeter's teams passed the 100-point mark 29 times, including a record-setting 149-point outing. His team went 102-16 in his four seasons of playing at UW-Platteville.

Jeter was a two-time All-Wisconsin State University Conference selection and two-time All-Midwest Region choice while at Platteville. He was also named to the Wisconsin State University Conference honor roll three times.

He graduated with a B.S. in business administration in 1991. He also earned a master's degree in adult education at UW-Platteville in December 2001.

Following graduation, he played professionally overseas from 1992-93, with Olivias Futebol Clube in Portugal, leading the Portuguese national league in scoring.

After his pro career, Jeter worked as an assistant coach, at UW-Platteville, Marquette University, UW-Milwaukee, and then Wisconsin.

Assistant coach

Jeter worked under Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan for 10 of his 11 years as an assistant coach, spending one year under Mike Deane at Marquette.

He has been part of nine conference championships and two national championships as a coach. In his 11 years as an assistant coach, his teams also posted a 245-85 combined record, a .743 winning percentage. In league play his teams had a 126-46 record.

UW-Platteville

While Jeter was an assistant coach at Platteville, the Pioneers had a 108-6 overall record, two NCAA Division III titles and four conference championships. During the time he was an assistant coach at UW-Platteville he also coordinated the program's academic, recruiting and scouting efforts. He was the director of Bo Ryan basketball camps, and was an admissions coordinator at the school.

Marquette

Jeter was the assistant coach at Marquette from 1998-1999. While there, one of the team's achievements was defeating #4 nationally ranked University of Cincinnati.

UW-Milwaukee

Jeter was the assistant coach at UW-Milwaukee for two seasons (1999-2001) under Bo Ryan. While there, UW-M recorded its first two .500 seasons since the early 1990s, an improvement in the Horizon League, and increased home attendance at the Klotsche Center. The UW-Milwaukee team also made it to the semi-finals in the league tourney for the first time in school history.

UW-Madison

Jeter spent four years at Madison as Bo Ryan's assistant coach and then associate head coach from 2001-2005. He was the Badgers' lead recruiter, while also coordinating Wisconsin's scouting and academic efforts. While at Wisconsin, they won two regular season Big Ten championships and a Big Ten Tournament title. They also made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including berths in the Sweet 16 in 2003, losing to Kentucky, and the Elite Eight in 2005, losing to North Carolina, who eventually became the National Champion.

Wisconsin averaged nearly 23 wins per season under Ryan and Jeter and posted a school record 38-game home court winning streak.

Head coach

UW-Milwaukee

Jeter is the 20th head coach of the UW-M basketball team, and the fifth since the program moved to Division I in 1990. He took over the position vacated by Bruce Pearl in 2005, when Pearl was hired at the University of Tennessee, after leading the Panthers to the Sweet Sixteen. He had been interviewed for the head coach position in 2001, but the job was given to Bruce Pearl.

In Jeter’s first year (2005-2006), he led his team to its third-straight Horizon League regular season title and the conference tournament title for the school's second straight NCAA tournament berth. Jeter also led the Panthers to a fourth-straight 20-win season, with the 22 wins the most by a first-year head coach in school history. In the 2006 NCAA tournament, the Panthers defeated Oklahoma before losing to eventual national champion Florida. Three of his players earned All-Horizon League honors, another school record, and three players earned league all-tournament team recognition. Their final record was 22-9, and 12-4 in conference play.

With seven seniors on the 2005-06 Panther team, Jeter fielded a squad of 16 newcomers for the 2006-2007 season. Their record was 9-22, and 6-10 in conference play, tying for seventh place in the Horizon League.

In Jeter’s third season as head coach (2007-2008), he added five more wins from the previous year’s record, after having to drop five players from the roster. Their record was 14-16, and 9-9 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the Horizon League.

In his fourth season at UW-Milwaukee, his coaching staff consists of Brian Bidlingmyer, Chad Boudreau, Duffy Conroy, Ronnie Jones and Chip MacKenzie.

While at UW-Milwaukee, Jeter has helped by the outfitting of UW-M's new locker room and team room in the Pavilion, including wooden lockers, furniture and a large-screen television.

Jeter was named the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches' Association Division I Coach of the Year in 2006 and was inducted into the UW-Platteville Athletic Hall of Fame in September of 2006.

Head Coach career record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
UW-Milwaukee (Horizon League) (2005–present)
2005–2006	UW-Milwaukee	22-9	12-4	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2006–2007	UW-Milwaukee	9-22	6-10	T-7th
2007–2008	UW-Milwaukee	14-16	9-9	T-4th
2008-2009	UW-Milwaukee
UW-Milwaukee:		45-47	27-23
Total:		45-47
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion