If anyone can follow 'The Mayor' at Iowa State, it's Steve Prohm. AMES, Iowa – The movers were at his new home right this minute.

Steve Prohm had waited for this day for four months — four months spent living at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel across the street from the Iowa State basketball practice facility. Four months away from his newborn son, Cass, and his wife, Katie, who was back in her hometown of Murray, Ky., tying up loose ends from her husband’s successful four- year run as head coach of the Murray State Racers. Four months of frantically recruiting to fill three Iowa State roster spots for the upcoming season and five for the next season. A senior class featuring Georges Niang and Naz Long had a real shot at becoming the winningest senior class in Iowa State history. Point guard Monte Morris had a chance at heading to the NBA after his junior season, as two Prohm point guards had done at Murray State.

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The team was as experienced as it is talented. It should be noted that there were no jalapenos on the quesadilla. As a rule, Prohm does not do spicy food. And this could be a metaphor for his makeup: a good and decent and straightforward man, a head coach less interested in the flash and sizzle of the coaching spotlight but instead focused on building relationships with his players, a guy who really sounds like he means it when he says his only goal is to get his players to have the best season each of them can have.

He’s beloved here.” He paused and smiled. Hoiberg grew up in Ames, was a ballboy for the Iowa State teams that featured Jeff Hornacek, starred at the school before heading to the NBA and was one of only seven Cyclones with their jerseys hanging from the Hilton Coliseum rafters when he returned to Ames in 2. Hoiberg’s hire was panned as a quixotic endeavor everywhere except Iowa, where he was still beloved: He had worked in the Minnesota Timberwolves front office after his 1. NBA career ended, but Hoiberg had zero head coaching experience when he was expected to come in and be the savior for a floundering program. It’s no wonder they call him .

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When Prohm ducked into a bathroom on his way out, two senior citizens were staring at a signed, framed Ames High School Hoiberg jersey just outside the john. When Prohm walks out of the tunnel Thursday night at Hilton Coliseum, he’ll still be mostly an unknown quantity: Not Johnny Orr, who walked out to the theme song from Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show,” and not Hoiberg, who walked out to Kevin Rudolf’s “Let It Rock.”. And yet, if you’re picking a coach to take over for Hoiberg, don’t you want a man who is in that same Hoiberg- ian mold?

Quietly competitive. Not a glutton for the spotlight.

A man who believes the single most important part of coaching college basketball is instilling confidence in his players. A light- hearted dude who had his players convinced his walkout song would be the “Nae Nae.” A coach who, instead of coming to Ames and immediately forcing his stamp on the program, arrived instead with this message: “I need to adjust more to these guys instead of them adjusting to me.”  An up- and- coming college basketball mind whose journey couldn’t be more different than Hoiberg’s – Prohm never played Division I college hoops, much less in the NBA – but whose internal constitution seems cut from the same cloth. Before the season began, he kept replaying images in his head because he believes that envisioning something can help it come true. Beating Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse. Cracking jokes at the post- game podium with Niang. And walking out of the tunnel at a thumping Hilton Coliseum – although he has yet to settle on what his permanent entrance song will be. Piano lessons weren’t even an option for young Steve.

From Day 1, all he wanted to do was go outside and play ball. Any ball, really.

Playing in select soccer leagues. Playing baseball, where his nickname was “First Pitch,” because he swung at everything.

But mostly, playing basketball. But Steve was driven toward sports his whole life. If he had to walk to practice because I couldn’t drive him, that would be OK by him.”. Prohm’s father, Ron, worked in the carpet business. The Prohms lived in a well- appointed suburb of Washington, D.

C., their neighborhood home to government workers and a few Washington Redskins, which happens to be the only sports team Prohm still considers himself a diehard fan of. He was friends with vice president Dan Quayle’s son when he was growing up, but after eighth grade the family moved to Dalton, Ga., a town 1. Atlanta that is known as the Carpet Capital of the World (no joke). He felt like an outsider in the South. Classmates called him “Yankee,” and Prohm just thought it was weird they’d nickname him after a pro baseball team.

Someday, he wanted to become his idol, Dick Vitale, but to do that, he figured he needed to be a high- profile coach first. Those were good Crimson Tide teams, with future NBA players like Antonio Mc. Dyess, Roy Rogers and Robert Horry. It was working alongside those elite players where Prohm learned his players- first mentality.

He took the job at Centenary, under a coach named Billy Kennedy. He did it all. He mopped the floors.

He brought out the cheap plastic kiddie pools so the gym floor wouldn’t get wet when rain came in the holes in the gym roof. And because of the humility that allowed him to do whatever was needed and an intensity to become great, his head coach saw in him a future star. Steve was driving. I was on the phone. Add Or Remove Programs Fatal Error During Installation Mcafee. He pulled over to a gas station and pumped the gas. While he was pumping gas, he paid at the same time.

Then he jumped in the car and took off, trying to go hard and do everything he could for me. But he didn’t realize the gas hose was still connected! And I’m screaming at him, ! You’re gonna blow this thing up! You’ve gotta stop!’ He’s just like that. He goes hard, and he gets excited. I thought he broke it and was gonna blow the thing up.

But he kept on going. I was like, . He was still in a dorm room, but this time he was an assistant who got a salary: $1. They took over a program that had won 1. A couple years into the rebuilding process, they lost to the worst team in Division I basketball, one with a 1- 2. Those were low moments. But by the time Kennedy left Southeast Louisiana for Murray State, the rebuild was complete. They’d won two straight conference championships, played in the NCAA tournament and won the most games in the history of the school.

This was no rebuilding process. It was a tradition- rich school in a basketball- obsessed state. It was a cradle of coaches, the place where N. C. State’s Mark Gottfried and Cincinnati’s Mick Cronin made their names.

One of those years, 2. Prohm’s most exhilarating year of coaching, going 3. Butler and making the Sweet 1. He was taking over the mid- major equivalent of this year’s Iowa State team: an experienced squad with a future NBA player at point guard and with enormous expectations to win – immediately. In his first year at Murray State, he inherited a loaded team and lead it to a 3. NCAA bid. His Murray State Racers were having an incredible season. An injury- marred 2- 4 start bled into a 2.

Kentucky’s. With a future NBA lottery pick at point guard, Cameron Payne, the Racers were one of the most fun and exciting teams in college hoops. In all likelihood that was going to knock the Racers out of the NCAA tourney despite the Racers’ top- 2. He was heartbroken from the loss. He was pissed at the prospect that the NCAA tournament selection committee would look at Murray State’s RPI and those four early- season losses and not reward the Racers with a tourney bid. He was angry at the idea of being slighted, the unfairness of it all.

He was that same kid his mother said would talk back to teachers in elementary school if he felt they weren’t being fair to the class. Because within 2.

List of Games to Complete to Win the Tournament.