Tad Reid
Men's Basketball Coach
Central Missouri (1923-38)
Reid won two National Championships at Central Missouri, in 1937 and 1938, and was presented with the first-ever collegiate championship trophy by Dr. James Naismith himself in 1938.
He is the second-winningest coach in school history with a career record of 178-110 (.618). He took the 1936-37 team to a 17-3 record, and the 1937-38 team to a 24-3 mark.
Reid entered the Central Missouri Athletic Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1992.