Ira Bowman

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ira Bowman

| image = Ira Bowman (cropped).jpg

| width =

| caption = Bowman in 2019

| career_position = Guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 5

| weight_lb = 195

| position = Assistant coach

| league = Southeastern Conference

| team = Auburn Tigers

| team_link =

| career_number = 11, 30, 7

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|06|11}}

| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey

| nationality = American

| high_school = Seton Hall Prep
(West Orange, New Jersey)

| college =

• Providence (1991–1993)
• Penn (1994–1996)

| draft_year = 1996

| career_start = 1996

| career_end = 2003

| coach_start = 2009

| years1 = 1996 | team1 = Gold Coast Rollers

| years2 = 1996–1998 | team2 = Connecticut Pride

| years3 = 1998–1999 | team3 = New Jersey Shorecats

| years4 = 1998–2000 | team4 = Connecticut Pride

| years5 = {{nbay|1999|end}} | team5 = Philadelphia 76ers

| years6 = 2001 | team6 = Connecticut Pride

| years7 = {{nbay|2000|end}} | team7 = Atlanta Hawks

| years8 = {{nbay|2001|start}} | team8 = Philadelphia 76ers

| years9 = 2001 | team9 = Pastificio di Nola Napoli

| years10 = 2002–2003 | team10 = Grand Rapids Hoops

| cyears1 = 2009–2012 | cteam1 = NJIT (assistant)

| cyears2 = 2012–2018 | cteam2 = Penn (assistant)

| cyears3 = 2018–present | cteam3 = Auburn (assistant)

| highlights =

• CBA champion (1999)
• 2× CBA All-Defensive Team (1999, 2000)
• Ivy League Player of the Year (1996)

| profile =

}}

Ira Bowman (born June 11, 1973) is a retired American professional basketball player formerly in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently an assistant men's basketball coach for Auburn University.

He attended Providence College and the University of Pennsylvania[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n48_v219/ai_17786654 Big East-Ivy marriage? It works for Penn's Bowman], by Lynn Zinser - The Sporting News, published Nov. 27, 1995 but was not selected in an NBA draft. He played for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Atlanta Hawks from 1999 to 2001. He played for the Connecticut Pride of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) from 1996 to 2001 and earned nominations to the CBA All-Defensive Team in 1999 and 2000.{{cite web |title=Ira Bowman minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-bowmaira001 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=July 6, 2021}} He played for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the CBA in 2002. He also played 13 games in the NBL for the Gold Coast Rollers in 1996.[http://www.nblstats.com/players.php?playerid=10110 Ira Bowman · #0], nblstats.com. Accessed October 21, 2007.

Bowman played high school basketball at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey, where he led the team to a 31–1 record as a senior and became the school's all-time career points leader.Liss, Jason. [http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/1994/02/23/Resources/Talented.Ira.Bowman.Waits.For.His.Opportunity-2180075.shtml "Talented Ira Bowman waits for his opportunity"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108202321/http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/1994/02/23/Resources/Talented.Ira.Bowman.Waits.For.His.Opportunity-2180075.shtml |date=2007-11-08 }}, The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 23, 1994. Accessed October 21, 2007. He was also the Ivy League Player of the Year (1995–1996) when he was playing for the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web |url=http://www.pennathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=8625&SPID=539&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1700&ATCLID=205454479&Q_SEASON=2012 |title=Ira Bowman bio - PennAthletics.com—The Official Website of University of Pennsylvania Athletics |access-date=2012-08-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212111820/http://www.pennathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=8625&SPID=539&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1700&ATCLID=205454479&Q_SEASON=2012 |archive-date=2012-12-12 }} Penn Quakers : 2012-2013 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff