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George Pheifer was named the Head Coach of the Vandal basketball program this season after serving one year as the team's top assistant under former head coach Leonard Perry. In a storied career at Lewis-Clark State College, Pfeifer compiled a 296-208 record (a winning percentage of 58.7 percent). Prior to Pfeifer taking over as head coach, LCSC had won just one post-season game in school history – and that was in 1947. Over the past six seasons, he was 140-56 (71.4) and won back-to-back Frontier Conference titles (2004 and 2005) for the first time in school history. During his tenure, the Warriors qualified for the National NAIA Tournament six times. He is 34-19 in post-season competition.
Pfeifer leaves LCSC after 16 seasons as its head coach. Along the way, he set personal and team marks with 296 career victories and a 31-victory campaign in 2003-04 – both Warrior records.
"I’ve always known I wanted to work in this world," Pfeifer said. "With that being said, what was important for me was if I was going to leave LCSC, it would be to go to work for someone who I thought did it right and was industrious and hard-working.
"As an alum and having the chance to work with coach Perry – that’s why coming to Idaho was a no-brainer."
The 2005-06 season will mark Pfeifer’s 27th year of coaching. Prior to accepting the LCSC heading coaching job in 1989, he served as the assistant with the Warriors for two years. He was also head women’s coach at Rocky Mountain College, leading them to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in over a decade. He served as the men’s assistant coach at RMC for one year, during which time RMC won the conference tournament and qualifed for the national tournament, both achievements for the first time in school history.
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