15 Facts About Greg Lansing

Gregory A Lansing was born on December 9,1967 and is a current special assistant to the head coach at Arizona State.

Originally from Harlan, Iowa, Lansing played college basketball at South Dakota and was the North Central Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior in 1990.

From 1993 to 1995, Greg Lansing was head coach at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, where he led the boys' basketball program to its first winning seasons in over a decade.

Greg Lansing then returned to the college level as Indiana State assistant coach from 1995 to 1999 during a turnaround where Indiana State had a winning season for the first time in over 15 years.

Greg Lansing led Indiana State to a Missouri Valley Conference tournament title in his debut season and subsequently took Indiana State to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational and the National Invitation Tournaments of 2013 and 2014.

Greg Lansing was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where his father Dave was a high school basketball coach.

Greg Lansing later grew up in Harlan, Iowa, and attended Harlan Community High School, where he graduated in 1986 and earned all-state honors in baseball, basketball, and football.

Greg Lansing was part of South Dakota teams that appeared in the 1989 and 1990 NCAA Division II Tournaments.

Greg Lansing graduated from South Dakota in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in physical education.

Greg Lansing completed his master's degree in counseling in 1992 and was promoted to full-time assistant coach that year.

Greg Lansing led Roosevelt to consecutive winning seasons; the program had 12 straight losing seasons before his hire.

In 1995 under head coach Sherman Dillard, Greg Lansing returned to the college level in the first of multiple stints at Indiana State.

Greg Lansing returned to Indiana State to be an assistant again on June 30,2006, this time under Royce Waltman.

Greg Lansing was promoted to associate head coach in 2007 under new head coach Kevin McKenna.

Greg Lansing became the second Indiana State rookie head coach to lead the program to the NCAA Tournament, last achieved by Bill Hodges in 1979.