Rick Huckabay

Rick Hackabay
Biographical details
Born	November 25, 1945; Chicago, Illinois
Died	March 10, 2006 (aged 60); Shreveport, Louisiana
Alma mater	Louisiana Tech University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1983	LSU (assistant)
1983–1989	Marshall
Head coaching record
Overall	129–59 (.686)
Tournaments	0–3 (NCAA Division I); 0–1 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	3× SoCon regular season (1984, 1987, 1988); 3× SoCon Tournament (1984, 1985, 1987);
Awards
	SoCon Coach of the Year (1984)

Richard David Huckabay, Sr (November 25, 1945 – March 10, 2006) was an American basketball coach, best known for his years as head coach at Marshall University.

Huckabay was born in Chicago but later moved with his family to Louisiana where he played high school baseball and basketball. He attended Louisiana Tech University and played baseball. After graduating, he became a high school basketball coach in that state. He then became an assistant coach at the Louisiana State University under Dale Brown.

In 1983 he was hired at Marshall, where he compiled a 129–59 record, including three appearances in the NCAA Tournament and one in the NIT before resigning in 1989 amid an investigation into recruiting.^[1]

Following Huckabay's resignation and a divorce, he chose not to seek another college job, but remained in the Huntington, West Virginia area where he held several high school coaching jobs in the city's Ohio suburbs, in order to remain near his two sons.

After his sons reached adulthood, he returned to Louisiana where he was coaching high school basketball when diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Huckabay was inducted posthumously into the Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Marshall Thundering Herd (Southern Conference) (1983–1989)
1983–84	Marshall	25–6	13–3	1st	NCAA Division I First Round
1984–85	Marshall	21–13	12–4	2nd	NCAA Division I First Round
1985–86	Marshall	19–11	10–6	T–2nd
1986–87	Marshall	25–6*	15–1	1st	NCAA Division I First Round
1987–88	Marshall	24–8	14–2	1st	NIT First Round
1988–89	Marshall	15–15	6–8	6th
Marshall:		129–59 (.686)	70–24 (.745)
Total:		129–59 (.686)
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

* The NCAA vacated Marshall's loss in the NCAA Tournament.^[2]

References

^ "Rick Huckabay". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
^ Marshall University Infractions Report . ncaa.org. March 11, 2018.

External links

Rick Huckabay at Find a Grave

[1] "Rick Huckabay". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 1, 2010.

[2] Marshall University Infractions Report . ncaa.org. March 11, 2018.

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