HACKENSACK, N.J. -- On this week's edition of The Greg Herenda Show, Coach is joined by Marshall University head men's basketball coach Dan D'Antoni.

D'Antoni's 13th-seeded Thundering Herd advanced to this year's NCAA Tournament Round of 32 before their great season ended with a 91-74 loss to fifth-seeded West Virginia.

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About Dan D'Antoni:
courtesy of HerdZone.com

Dan D'Antoni, a Marshall Athletics Hall of Famer, was named the Thundering Herd men's basketball coach on April 25, 2014. A former star MU point guard, D'Antoni helped Marshall to appearances in the 1967 and 1968 National Invitation Tournaments.

D'Antoni enters his fourth season after enjoying the most successful season at the helm of the basketball program. It was the Herd's first time to reach 20 wins and the Conference USA Conference Tournament final since 2012. Thanks to the team's "hillbilly style" of basketball, the Herd broke several records, including including points (2,997) and 3-point field goals made (356), while having the No. 7 scoring offense in the naiton. 

Other on the court highlights included having three separate (Jon Elmore, Stevie Browning and Ryan Taylor) earn C-USA Player of the Week honors, which was the first time a Marshall team had three players recognized in the same season for player of the week honors since the 1986-87 season, Taylor becoming the first player in program and league history to be named the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week on Jan. 11 and Elmore and Taylor becoming the first Marshall duo to be named on C-USA teams since DeAndre Kane and Damier Pitts in 2012.

D'Antoni, 68, is the older brother of former NBA coach Mike D'Antoni. Dan served as one of Mike's assistant coaches for nine NBA seasons. He was a member of the Phoenix Suns' staff from 2005-06 through 2007-08. He spent four seasons on the New York Knicks' staff, then served as an assistant on the Los Angeles Lakers' staff for two seasons.
During his career, D'Antoni also served as the head coach of the Knicks' and Lakers' NBA Summer League teams.

After D'Antoni graduated from Marshall in 1970, he joined the Herd staff as the head coach of the freshman basketball team, where he coached his younger brother, Mike, before becoming an assistant coach of the Herd varsity.

D'Antoni was named head basketball coach at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 1975. In 30 years at Socastee (1975-2005), D'Antoni accumulated over 500 wins and multiple coach of the year honors, while founding the Beach Ball Classic, one of the most prestigious high school basketball tournaments in the country. That event has featured more than 75 players who have gone on to play in the NBA.

D'Antoni was the head coach of the Beach Ball Select AAU basketball team, which featured future NBA players Raymond Felton and Ramon Sessions.

In March 2016, D'Antoni was elected to the South Carolina High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

D'Antoni was an All-State first team selection at Mullens High School. At Marshall, he was the starting point guard on Ellis Johnson's "Iron Man 5" that played in the 1967 and '68 NIT. The 1966-67 team reached the NIT semifinals, and D'Antoni led the tournament in assists as the Herd finished fourth. As a senior, he was an All-Mid-American Conference first team selection in 1968-69, when he led the Herd in scoring, at 17.5 points per game. D'Antoni was All-MAC second team his junior season.

D'Antoni is one of Marshall's 50 players to score 1,000 career points, with 1,109, and ranks 13th on the Herd's career free throw percentage list, at .774 (301-of-389). D'Antoni -- whose given name is Lewis Joseph D'Antoni II -- was inducted into the Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame in 1990.

D'Antoni graduated from Marshall in 1970 with a degree in Speech and Physical Education, and also earned a Master's degree in Principles of Guidance from Marshall in 1972.

He is the father of three sons, all of whom played collegiate basketball: Matt played at Brown; Andrew attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and later served 3½ years in Iraq, rising to the rank of captain in the U.S. Army; and Nick attended William & Mary, where he was captain of the basketball team. D'Antoni and his wife, Vanessa, also are parents of a daughter, Morgan.