Jeff Horner

{{short description|American former basketball player (born 1983)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| image =

| name = Jeff Horner

| caption =

| team = Truman Bulldogs

| league = GLVC

| position = Head coach

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 185

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|8|01}}

| birth_place = Mason City, Iowa, U.S.

| high_school = Mason City (Mason City, Iowa)

| college = Iowa (2002–2006)

| draft_year = 2006

| career_start = 2006

| career_end = 2010

| career_position = Point guard

| career_number =

| coach_start = 2008

| years1 = 2006–2007 | team1 = Euphony Bree

| years2 = 2007 | team2 = Paris Basket Racing

| years3 = 2007–2010 | team3 = Iowa Energy

| cyears1 = 2008–2010 | cteam1 = Valley HS (assistant)

| cyears2 = 2010–2014 | cteam2 = Valley HS

| cyears3 = 2014–2018 | cteam3 = North Dakota (DBO/asst.)

| cyears4 = 2018–2025 | cteam4 = Truman

| highlights =

Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player (2006)
2× Third-team All-Big Ten (2004, 2006)
Third-team Parade All-American (2002)
Iowa Mr. Basketball (2002)

}}

Jeff Horner (born August 1, 1983) is an American former basketball player. He is best known as a point guard for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes basketball team. Horner is currently head coach of the Truman State Bulldogs men's basketball team.{{cite web | url=https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/basketball/4436164-und-assistant-coach-jeff-horner-named-head-coach-truman-state | title=UND assistant coach Jeff Horner named head coach at Truman State | publisher=Grand Forks Herald | date=24 April 2018 | access-date=25 April 2018 | archive-date=26 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426080028/https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/basketball/4436164-und-assistant-coach-jeff-horner-named-head-coach-truman-state | url-status=dead }}

Early life and college

Horner was born in Mason City, Iowa. His father Bob Horner was Mason City High School varsity basketball coach. Horner made a verbal commitment to the University of Iowa while in the ninth grade.{{cite web|url=http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/horner_jeff00.html |title=Jeff Horner Profile: Iowa Official Athletic Site |publisher=Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics |access-date=26 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213120647/http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/horner_jeff00.html |archive-date=13 December 2013 }} Horner's sister Kristin played basketball for Drake University. {{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

=High school=

Born in Mason City, Iowa, Horner graduated from Mason City High School in Mason City, Iowa in 2002. In his senior season, Horner averaged 31.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 6.8 assists per game, leading the prep team to a 21–2 overall record. He shot 53% from the field and 73% from the free throw line as a senior, averaged 25.3 points a game as a junior, along with 10.1 assists and 5.2 rebounds. He averaged 21.2 points, 10.2 assists and five rebounds per game as a sophomore, and led Mason City to 2 state tournament appearances as a junior and senior, with a 38–7 record over those two seasons.

=College=

At the University of Iowa, Horner played on the Hawkeyes basketball team all four years and graduated in 2006. He missed four games in December 2006 due to injury, ending a streak of 102 consecutive games played. Horner is second in three-pointers (232), ranks second in assists (563) and three-point attempts (635), 14th in career points (1,341), and also totalled 514 career rebounds. He is the only Iowa player ever to total over 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 500 assists, and the only Iowa player ever to total over 200 points, 100 rebounds, and 100 assists in four seasons. In Big Ten career stats, Horner ranks 7th in assists (612) and three-point FG attempts (713) and 8th in three-point FGs (262) and helped lead the Hawkeyes to a 2006 Big Ten men's basketball tournament championship, being named Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player.

Professional career

=Playing career=

Horner played professional basketball with the Euphony Bree, a team located in Bree, Belgium.{{cite web | url=http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/080106aaa.html | title=Jeff Horner Signs Professional Basketball Contract | publisher=Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics | date=1 August 2006 | access-date=26 January 2014 | archive-date=1 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201174700/http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/080106aaa.html | url-status=dead }} He played for Paris Basket Racing in France until 2007. He was signed by the Iowa Energy, an NBA Development League team based out of Des Moines, Iowa, in October 2007.{{cite web | url=http://www.hawkeyesportsnews.com/2009/02/where-are-they-now-jeff-horner.html | title=Where are they now? Jeff Horner | publisher=Iowa Hawkeyes Athlerics | date=26 February 2009 | access-date=26 January 2014 | archive-date=15 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215035544/http://www.hawkeyesportsnews.com/2009/02/where-are-they-now-jeff-horner.html | url-status=dead }}

=Coaching career=

Horner was the head varsity basketball coach at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, from 2010 to 2014.{{cite web | url=http://thegazette.com/2010/06/02/jeff-horner-to-coach-west-des-moines-valley-boys-basketball-team/ | title=Jeff Horner to coach West Des Moines Valley boys' basketball team | publisher=The Gazette | date=2 June 2010 | access-date=26 January 2014}} In 2014, he became a head of basketball operations at the University of North Dakota. In 2018, he became the head basketball coach at Truman State.{{cite news

|title=Jeff Horner named head coach at Truman State|url=https://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/hawkeyes/iowa-mens-basketball/jeff-horner-named-head-coach-at-truman-state-20180424|access-date=October 28, 2018|work=The Gazette|date=April 24, 2018}}

=Head coaching record=

{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Truman Bulldogs

| conference = Great Lakes Valley Conference

| startyear = 2018

| endyear =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2018–19

| name = Truman

| overall = 14–15

| conference = 9–9

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = confboth

| season = 2019–20

| name = Truman

| overall = 23–8

| conference = 14–4

| confstanding = T–1st

| postseason = NCAA Division II cancelled

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2020–21

| name = Truman

| overall = 20–3

| conference = 18–1

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Division II Elite Eight

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2021–22

| name = Truman

| overall = 20–10

| conference = 13–6

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division II First Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2022–23

| name = Truman

| overall = 12–16

| conference = 7–13

| confstanding = 11th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2023–24

| name = Truman

| overall = 15–14

| conference = 12–8

| confstanding = 4th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2024–25

| name = Truman

| overall = 17–12

| conference = 11–9

| confstanding = T–6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Truman

| overall = {{Winning percentage|121|78|record=y}}

| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|84|50|record=y}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record End

| overall = {{Winning percentage|121|78|record=y}}

}}

Personal life

On August 29, 2019, Horner tweeted that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer on August 13, 2019. He will begin chemo at the University of Missouri.{{cite web | url=https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/2019/08/29/iowa-basketball-former-hawkeye-star-jeff-horner-announces-he-has-cancer/2155181001/ | publisher=www.HawkCentral.com | title=Former Hawkeye star Jeff Horner announces he has cancer | author=Mark Emmert | date=August 29, 2019 | access-date=February 15, 2023}}

In a February, 2021 article, it was announced that Horner was "cancer free".{{cite web | url=https://www.hawkeyenation.com/news/basketball/jeff-horner-is-healthy-and-so-is-basketball-program/article_071e4700-6bea-11eb-9ff5-3b2bd982b3c2.html#:~:text=More%20importantly%2C%20he's%20cancer%20free,hall%20of%20fame%20coach%2C%20Bob. | publisher=HawkeyeNation.com | title=Jeff Horner is Healthy and So is Basketball Program | author=Rick Brown | date=February 11, 2021 | access-date=February 15, 2023}}