MCCOLLUM TO BE INDUCTED INTO MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Northwest Missouri State University head men’s basketball coach and Storm Lake native Ben McCollum has been selected for induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Enshrinement is set for May 19 at 1 p.m. at Union Station in Kansas City. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame will honor golf maestro Tom Watson as a Missouri Sports Legend — complete […] Northwest Missouri State University head men’s basketball coach and Storm Lake native Ben McCollum has been selected for induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. His induction ceremony will take place on May 19 at Union Station in Kansas City. McCCollum, a son of late Roger Timko and Mary Timko, is one of the most successful college basketball coaches in state history. His teams have won four national championships and 13 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association regular season titles. McCullum is also a nine-time MIAA Coach of the Year and has been named the National Basketball Coaches Association’S Coach of Year five times.
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Northwest Missouri State University head men’s basketball coach and Storm Lake native Ben McCollum has been selected for induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Enshrinement is set for May 19 at 1 p.m. at Union Station in Kansas City.
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame will honor golf maestro Tom Watson as a Missouri Sports Legend — complete with a bronze bust — and induct former Kansas City Royal Eric Hosmer and Kansas City Chief Casey Wiegmann with the Class of 2024. The trio are headlining the Hall of Fame’s enshrinement.
McCollum, the son of the late Roger Timko and Mary Timko of Storm Lake, is one of the most successful college basketball coaches in state history, and in NCAA Division II for that matter. This season marked his 15th in Maryville. His teams have won four national championships (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) as well as 13 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association regular season titles and eight MIAA tournament titles.
McCollum, a 1999 graduate of St. Mary’s, has been named the National Basketball Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year five times — the most in NABC Division II history — and in 2019 alone was the John McLendon National Coach of the Year for all divisions, and Coach of the Year for the Basketball Times, HoopDirt.com and the Kansas City Sports Awards.
McCollum also is a nine-time MIAA Coach of the Year and was the Clarence “Big House” Gaines National Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2020.
McCollum is 394-91 since taking over the program ahead of the 2009-2010 season. McCollum played for Northwest Missouri State in the early 2000s.