How To Create a WINNING Culture in your own life, with the youngest NCAA Mens Head Basketball Coach, Drew Valentine

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Your Mentor Today is one of my favorite coaches, Drew Valentine.
In a word, Drew Valentine is a winner. He has played a huge role in Loyola University Chicago’s rise to national prominence over the last five years and was named the Ramblers’ head men’s basketball coach on April 5, 2021. In nine seasons on coaching staffs in his career, Valentine has guided teams to the postseason seven times, including three NCAA Sweet 16 appearances, two of which wound up with trips to the Final Four. During his five seasons at Loyola, Valentine has helped lead the Ramblers to a 124-44 overall record, three NCAA Tournament berths, a trip to the National Invitation Tournament, three regular-season Missouri Valley Conference championships and three MVC Championship titles. At 30 years of age, Valentine, a native of Lansing, Mich., is the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. In 2017, he was named to the Under Armour 30-Under-30 Team, presented by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), as one of the top coaches under the age of 30.
Valentine made quite a splash in his first season as Loyola’s head coach in 2021-22, setting a program record for wins by a first-year Rambler skipper (25), while also becoming the only first-year coach in program history to lead Loyola to a NCAA Tournament appearance.
One of only three first-year head coaches to steer his club to 25 or more wins in 2021-22, Valentine also became the youngest head coach since Todd Bozeman in 1993 to lead his team to a national ranking. Loyola earned a No. 22 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll in mid-January.
Valentine put his twist on the Rambler program in 2021-22 and once again Loyola ranked among the nation’s top offensive and defensive teams in the nation, while also establishing a single-season school record by knocking down 293 three-point field goals. Under Valentine’s tutelage, five Ramblers collected All-Missouri Valley Conference accolades, including guard Lucas Williamson, who was tabbed MVC Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season, and also garnered first team all-league recognition.
In four years as an assistant coach on Porter Moser’s staff at Loyola, Valentine played a pivotal role in the program’s ascension to national prominence, helping the Ramblers to a 99-36 (.733) overall record and a 56-16 (.778) ledger in Missouri Valley Conference action. =
For his final two seasons as an assistant coach at Loyola, Valentine served as the de facto defensive coordinator for a Ramblers unit that ranked 21st in the nation in scoring defense in 2019-20 (62.7 ppg) and first in the country (56.1 ppg) in 2020-21. During his four seasons on the Loyola staff as an assistant, Loyola ranked in the top six in the nation in scoring defense three times but it wasn’t just the defense that thrived. Although defense has been Loyola’s calling card, the Ramblers have also ranked among Division I’s best in field goal percentage in each of the last five seasons. A proven winner, Valentine has helped lead Loyola to five consecutive seasons with at least 20 wins, including a school-record
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